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"Lucky" - Britney Spears

from the album Oops!...I Did It Again (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's song comes from Britney Spears, whose sophomore album Oops!...I Did It Again had already spun off a top ten pop hit with the title track (it probably would've done better if it had the sales from being released as a commercial single) in the summer of 2000. Britney's follow-up was the mid-tempo pop nugget "Lucky", written by Swedish producers Max Martin and Rami Yacoub along with fellow countryman Alexander Kronlund. In it Spears sings about a Hollywood star that leads a lonely life, though many of her fans and the press associated with her own life in retrospect (after the Timberlake affair, that is). It's bouncy and uses Britney's cooing small gravel vocals to good effect, and it was received well with radio...

"Lucky" became Britney's second top-40 pop hit from the album in September of 2000 (again, it would've done better if released as a single, but the record company wanted to juice sales of the album). The song rose to #9 on the Mainstream Top-40 radio chart, and #14 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic format list. Internationally, the single topped the singles charts in Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, and made the top ten in Canada (#2), Ireland (#2), Australia (#3), Romania (#3), Iceland (#3), the Netherlands (#4), the UK (#5), Norway (#5), Portugal (#6), Italy (#8), Denmark (#8), Belgium (#9F/#10W), and Hungary (#9). Britney and the Oops! album will return to the series.

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Here's Britney performing on The Today Show to promote the album...

 Next up, Spears on her tour behind the Oops! album...

and lastly, a fan clip of Britney in her Vegas show, where she performed "Lucky" as a sad ballad...

Up tomorrow: This other former Mouseketeer is quite inviting.