At this point looking back you'd think so but honestly she was just an annoyingly inescapable topic for all of 2006 and 2007. In 2006 she was literally in the news all day everyday for her partying (sometimes with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan who were also inescapable topics at the time which made for tabloid dynamite) and she did that Dateline interview which was huge at the time (maybe it was in December now that I think of it? Im not sure) where she cried and chewed gum.

Dec2006

Trinity!

Lmao at others seething because Britney and Rihanna are at the top.

By 2007, you no longer needed to search for Britney. She made the news every night and was on every newstand and the cover of all the tabloids.