# BritneySpears: The solo woman who stood by Eminem in Topchar

The Billboard 200 Decade-End Chart rankings for the 2000s (December 4, 1999 - November 28, 2009) were measured by the combined sales of albums that charted weekly throughout those ten years; the results not only reflected the entire era of music industry direction, but also saw Britney Spears become the only solo female artist to be able to squeeze up to No. 2 of the entire decade.

This was extraordinary, because in all the Top 10 were male artists and bands - Eminem, Toby Keith, Nelly, Linkin Park, Jay-Z or Creed - but Britney broke every constraint with the power of pop that was both bestselling and culturally influential, becoming representative of the whole Generation.

Summary Top 5 2000s Artist and Album Sales

-# EminemDignified No. 1 with total U.S. sales exceeding 32 million records, his music became the mainstream that both argued and reshaped hip-hop. 【 Source 】

- Britney Spears has sold 22.9 million U.S. albums in a single decade, pushed by works like... Baby One More Time, Oops!... I Did It Again, Britney and In the Zone that not only sold well, but also became a co-culture of the Millennium Generation. 【 Source 】

-# TobyKeithIn third place is the star of country music. It sold over 21 million records. In the same period, it is an echo of America's country that is far into the mainstream market. 【 Source 】

-# NellyNo. 4 opened the 2000s hotly with Country Grammar, which surpassed 8 million records and made the rapper from St.Louis step up to an unknown name. 【 Source 】

- Linking Park, the fifth place, is considered a band that bridges rock with nu-metal rappers. The only Hybrid Theory album sold about 9.7 million records, becoming the sound of a confused Y2K teenager and yearning for meaning. 【 Source 】

Britney: A Symbol of Pop in the 2000s

Of these artists, Britney Spears stood out not just because she was the only woman on the charts, but because she was able to compete with the male hip-hop, country and rock artists who dominated the market space at the time like a color model; selling more than 22 million records in ten years is clear evidence that this teenage pop star is not just a "commodity for the young girl market" as it once was viewed, but a cultural phenomenon that the whole world has caught its eye on.

If Eminem is the raw, bootleg, system-defying voice, Britney Spears is the image of glow, defying values of gender and fame in a way the whole world can't take her eyes off, this achievement making her not only the "princess of pop" but also the face of the 2000s standing alongside the most powerful male artist in contemporary history.

Figure from The Hot Sheet.

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