...Baby One More Time is the debut
studio album by American recording artist
Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, by
JIVE Records. In June 1997, while Spears negotiated with manager
Lou Pearlman to join female pop group
Innosense, her mother asked family friend and entertainment lawyer
Larry Rudolph for his opinion and submitted a tape of Spears singing over a
Whitney Houston karaoke song. Rudolph decided to pitch her to record labels, sending them a demo tape with an unused song from
Toni Braxton. JIVE was interested and appointed the singer to work with producer Eric Foster White. After hearing the recorded material, JIVE signed Spears to a multi-album deal.