I had been in studio for about six months listening and recording material, but I hadn't really heard a hit yet.

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In 2018, readers of German teen magazine Bravo voted '.Baby One More Time' to be the biggest hit since its first music compilation was released in 1992. It is also featured in the 2011 dance video game by Ubisoft, Just Dance 3. It was also the final song to be played on the BBC's music programme Top of the Pops in the 1990s.

Spears has named '.Baby One More Time' as one of her favorite songs from her catalog. It has been noted for redefining the sound of late 1990s music. '.Baby One More Time' was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards (2000), and has been included in lists by Blender, Rolling Stone and VH1. I Did It Again Tour (2000–01), The Onyx Hotel Tour (2004), The M+M's Tour (2007), The Circus Starring Britney Spears (2009), the Femme Fatale Tour (2011), and her concert residency Britney: Piece of Me (2013–17). Baby One More Time Tour (1999) and Dream Within a Dream Tour (2001–02) Spears also performed remixed versions of the song during the Oops!. Spears has performed '.Baby One More Time' in a number of live appearances and during all of her concert tours. The song's success catalyzed the careers of Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore, led by Spears as the four 'pop princesses' of 1999. In 2020, Rolling Stone named '.Baby One More Time' as the greatest debut single of all time.

It has been featured on all of her greatest hits and other compilation albums. In 2011, '.Baby One More Time' was voted by Billboard to be the best music video of the 1990s. In 2010, the music video for '.Baby One More Time' was voted the third most influential video in the history of pop music, in a poll held by Jam!. An accompanying music video, directed by Nigel Dick, features Spears as a high school student who starts to sing and dance around the school, while watching her love interest from afar. The song is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over ten million copies sold. Released on September 28, 1998, by Jive Records, the song became a worldwide hit, topping the charts in at least 22 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it earned triple-Platinum certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and was the country's best-selling single of 1999. It was written by Max Martin and produced by Martin and Rami. Baby One More Time' is the debut single by American singer Britney Spears from her debut studio album of the same title (1999).

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