Her big break came when she was signed as a Jive Recording Artist in the late 90s.
With the release of her debut album, "...Baby One More Time" in early 1999
Britney became an international success, selling 13 million copies of "Baby" and 9 million (as of July 2001) of her sophomore album,
"Oops!...I Did It Again," released in May of 2000.