'Baby One More Time' - 17 years on from Britney Spears' breakthrough smash

It launched a career, it launched a controversial video and it launched a million karaoke imitators but 17 years ago this week Baby One More Time entered the US Top 100, and a fresh-faced Britney Spears was on her way to superstardom.

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SUCCESS

The song entered the US Top 100 on November 21, 1998 and over two months later it was number one, selling over 10 million copies in the US, the UK and around the world.

It stayed at number one in Australia for 9 weeks and racked up sales of over 15,000 here in New Zealand. The track also reached the top spot in every European country in which it charted.

It started Spears' career and will go down as one of the most successful singles ever by a female artist.

So sit back and enjoy the glory that is Baby One More Time, and the answer to that question you've been asking yourself while reading this article is "yes....yes, you are old".

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