Britney
by Britney Spears

Britney by Britney Spears
Year: 2001
Overall rank: 13,361st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 115 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2001 (247th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,400th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,361st)

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Britney Spears bestography

Britney is ranked 5th best out of 12 albums by Britney Spears on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Britney Spears is Blackout which is ranked number 3041 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 496.

Britney Spears album bestography « Higher ranked (7,620th)
In The Zone
This album (13,361st)
Britney
Lower ranked (19,166th) »
Circus

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Britney rankings

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Overall rank: 13,361st | 2000s rank: 2,400th | 2001 rank: 247th

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Britney ratings

Average Rating: 
58/100 (from 115 votes)
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55/100
 
11/27/2025 21:15 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,79770/100
 
40/100
 
11/02/2025 19:53 dukeboxkool  Ratings distribution  2,11172/100
 
70/100
 
09/20/2025 21:53 culwin  Ratings distribution  1,39575/100
 
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07/23/2025 08:36 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,14773/100
 
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06/07/2025 04:06 iamstripped  Ratings distribution  1681/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 57.9/100, a mean average of 56.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 56.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 27.1.

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70/100
From 09/20/2025 22:06 | #310992
Mediocre is right. It's far from great, but far from awful either. Unfortunately the worst tracks here are probably the singles, "I'm A Slave 4 U" which I find pretty annoying, and "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" which is only mildly annoying. Some of these songs (like the cover of "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" which is alright but not that great of a song in the first place) included on the soundtrack of the film "Crossroads" sure didn't help that movie, either. Cinderella is probably my favorite track here, and even that is just alright. Overall, not interesting or bad enough to deserve a bad rating, just forgettable.
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80/100
From 01/06/2019 22:30 | #229163
Grandes hits!
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From 10/22/2018 15:08 | #222982
Underwhelming and pretty much fails as a "I've grown up" album ("In The Zone" does a better job of that), but "Britney" is not without its merits. Slave 4 U is a decent lead single and Overprotected is a bit of a bop.
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From 10/26/2016 16:45 | #177477
I'd be lying if I said this was a bad pop album; it's decent enough & songs like "Overprotected" are genuinely good songs. She hadn't fully matured yet, we see that in her next two albums, but this marks a halfway step of sorts. Not without its merits.
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5/100
From 02/29/2016 12:43 | #161010
A below average pop album by a below average singer.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 11/25/2014 15:39 | #127962
Average pop/dance-pop/R&B album. Best 10 songs average is 76,3/100 and the album can get average 75/100. Like previous comment says: mediocre at best. Only song that is bit better is "I'm not a girl..." 85/100. All other songs 70-75/100. Not bad anyway, but expendable somehow.
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5/100
From 06/14/2014 15:47 | #114443
Mediocre at best
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From 11/28/2013 19:59 | #95224
She is such a babe but this album looks better in a young girls collection than anywhere else
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Rating:  
50/100
From 09/20/2012 17:30 | #50836
Britney is better when she's got funky production backing her, and she's trying to be sultry. When she's serious, it's awful "I'm not a Girl, Not yet a Woman" is one of the most insipid songs of all time.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 07/11/2012 15:31 | #46253
A truly underrated album.
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