The Life List: 10 Britney Spears songs to mark 20th anniversary of Oops... I Did It Again

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SINGAPORE - It has been 20 years since American pop star Britney Spears first told the world that she's "not that innocent". The 38-year-old pop icon released her second album Oops!... I Did It Again on May 16, 2000 and it sold over 1.3 million copies in its first week - then the highest debut-week album sales by a female artist.

She held on to that record for 15 years before it was finally broken by English singer Adele in 2015.

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