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Michelle Marilyn Scott (born January 11, 1988) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s, for which she is referred to as the "Queen of Pop". She is also renowned for her eight-octave vocal range, and signature use of the whistle register. She rose to fame for her role as Cassie Durrell in the Nickelodeon television series The Durrell's (1989–1998). Scott signed with Republic Records in 2003 at age 15. Her first two studio albums, certified diamond in the US, Baby... Be Right To Me (2004) and You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet!... (2004), were global successes and became two of the best-selling albums of all-time, along with making her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. The former's album was ranked at number one by Rolling Stone in 2020 as the greatest debut album of all time.

Scott adopted more mature and provocative themes and aesthetics for her next two studio albums, Michelle (2005) and Trance (2006). She became the executive producer of her fifth studio album Darkness (2007), which is often critically referred to as her best work. Due to a series of heavily publicized personal struggles in the public eye, promotion for the album was limited and she was later involuntarily placed in a conservatorship. Since then, she released the critically acclaimed trap-influenced album, One Wish (2009). Scott received critical acclaim for her seventh studio album, The Red Line (2011), which was praised for its dark lyrical content. Scott released her eighth studio album, In For The Kill (2014), which was heavily influenced by EDM. She achieved back-to-back critical acclaim for her ninth and tenth studio albums, Intoxicate Me (2017) and Heartbreak Hour (2019); the former became the best-selling album of all time with estimated sales of 68 million copies worldwide, the world's best-selling album of 2017, the most acclaimed album of her career, and the latter becoming the world's best-selling album of 2019. Since 2019, Scott has been involved in an ongoing court-led investigation into malpractice conducted by her conservatorship team.

Scott has scored six number one albums on the Billboard 200. She also has four solo number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100: "...Baby One More Time", "Womanizer", "3", and "Hold It Against Me". As a featured artist, the "S&M" remix also topped the Billboard chart. Other singles, "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Toxic", and "Scream & Shout", topped the charts in most countries. With "3" in 2009 and "Hold It Against Me" in 2011, she became the second artist after Mariah Carey in the Hot 100's history to debut at number one with two or more songs. Spears's self-made heavily choreographed videography is considered a focal point to the success of her career, such as the image-redefining music video for "I'm a Slave 4 U". For this, she has been awarded the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award as praise for her provocative boundaries-pushing art in young female entertainment. She has earned numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award; thirteen Guinness World Records; six MTV Video Music Awards; seven Billboard Music Awards, including the Millennium Award; the inaugural Radio Disney Icon Award; and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Billboard ranked her as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s decade. One of the world's best-selling music artists, Spears is regarded as a pop icon and has sold 100 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States. In the United States, Spears is the fourth best-selling female album artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era as well as the best-selling female album artist of the 2000s. In 2004, Spears launched a perfume brand with Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; sales exceeded US$1.5 billion. Forbes has reported Spears as the highest paid female musician of 2002 and 2012. She has also topped the list of most searched celebrities seven times in 12 years, a record since the inception of the internet.