...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 18

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:11)

• Cm – G/B – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gm
  i – V⁶ – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – v

Part 2 (0:22)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:11).

Part 3 (0:32)

• Cm – G7/B – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gm
  i – V⁶₅ – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – v

Part 4 (0:42)

• Cm – G/B – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gsus4 – G
  i – V⁶ – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – Vsus4 – V

Part 5 (0:53)

• Cm – G7/B – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – G
  i – V⁶₅ – bVI – bVII – bIII – iv⁶₅ – V

Part 6 (1:03)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:11).

Part 7 (1:13)

• Cm – G/B – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – G
  i – V⁶ – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – V

Part 8 (1:24)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:32).

Part 9 (1:34)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:42).

Part 10 (1:44)

• Cm – G7/B – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – G7 – Cm
  i – V⁶₅ – bVI – bVII – bIII – iv⁶₅ – V7 – i

Part 11 (2:05)

• Cmadd9 – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gsus4 – G
  iadd9 – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – Vsus4 – V

Part 12 (2:15)

• A♭maj7 – B♭7 – Fm7/A♭ – A♭add9 – B♭
  bVImaj7 – bVII7 – iv⁶₅ – bVIadd9 – bVII

Part 13 (2:26)

• Cm – G/B – G – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gsus4 – G7
  i – V⁶ – V – bIII – iv⁶₅ – Vsus4 – V7

Part 14 (2:36)

• A♭ – B♭7 – A♭ – E♭/G – Fm7/A♭ – B♭ – G/B
  bVI – bVII7 – bVI – bIII⁶ – iv⁶₅ – bVII – V⁶

Part 15 (2:46)

• Cm – G/B – G7 – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Gsus4 – G7
  i – V⁶ – V7 – bIII – iv⁶₅ – Vsus4 – V7

Part 16 (2:57)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:53).

Part 17 (3:07)

Same chords as Part 15 (2:46).

Part 18 (3:17)

• Cm – G7/B – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Fm7/A♭ – G – Cm
  i – V⁶₅ – bVI – bVII – bIII – iv⁶₅ – V – i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Baby One More Time), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Baby One More Time), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.