<P> `` ... Baby One More Time '' was released as Spears 's debut single on October 23 , 1998 , by Jive Records , when she was only sixteen years old . Spears has named `` ... Baby One More Time '' as one of her favorite songs from her entire career , naming `` Toxic '' and `` He About to Lose Me '' as the other two . Like TLC and Backstreet Boys , British boy band Five were almost considered to record the song , according to their former manager Simon Cowell , who would work with Spears in the second season of the American version of The X Factor in 2012 , in his autobiography Sweet Revenge . </P>
<P> `` ... Baby One More Time '' was released as Spears 's debut single on October 23 , 1998 , by Jive Records , when she was only sixteen years old . Spears has named `` ... Baby One More Time '' as one of her favorite songs from her entire career , naming `` Toxic '' and `` He About to Lose Me '' as the other two . Like TLC and Backstreet Boys , British boy band Five were almost considered to record the song , according to their former manager Simon Cowell , who would work with Spears in the second season of the American version of The X Factor in 2012 , in his autobiography Sweet Revenge . </P>
how old was britney spears hit me baby one more time
how old was britney spears hit me baby one more time
sixteen
sixteen