Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
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| Single by Britney Spears from the album Oops!… I Did It Again |
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| Released |  April 3, 2001 March 26, 2001 |
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| Format |  CD single Airplay only |
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| Recorded | 1999 / 2000 | ||||
| Genre | Pop ballad | ||||
| Length | 3:50 | ||||
| Label | Jive | ||||
| Writer(s) | Robert Lange Keith Scott Shania Twain |
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| Producer | Max Martin Rami |
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"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" is the fourth single from pop singer Britney Spears' album Oops!… I Did It Again. It was released during the first quarter of 2001.
The song was written by record producer Robert Lange, his wife, country music singer Shania Twain, and long-time Bryan Adams guitarist Keith Scott, and was produced by Max Martin and Rami, and programmed by Swayd aka Richard Meyer. This track shows Britney explaining to her love that he shouldn't let her hear everything else from other people and should tell everything straight to her as she exclaims "don't let me be the last to know." Only the UK version of Britney's greatest hits album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative has this track. Otherwise, the song is excluded along with "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart", which is also a ballad.
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[edit] Music video
Directed by Herb Ritts at Key Biscayne, Florida, the music video for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" features Spears cuddling and making out with a supermodel by the beach while she is wearing only a bikini and short-shorts. Britney's lover in the video is French model Brice Durand.
The video starts with Britney and her boyfriend in a hammock. Cuts of her cuddling with this model beside a fire are also included. We also see her and her boyfriend on the seashore doing a love scene. Inside a tiki hut, Spears exclaims the words she wants her boyfriend to know. In the second half of the video, she is seen on a tree where her boyfriend reaches for her. There are also scenes where she is running on the beach and her boyfriend is chasing after.
It was a TRL hit, debuting at #1 and managing to retire itself just like all of her previous efforts. The video also was nominated for a Billboard Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary Clip.
[edit] Chart performance
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was arguably Britney's first flop single. Some of the reason as to why "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" flopped can be accounted to the fact that it was never released with a commercial single of any kind, and therefore had no sales to aid it on the charts.
The track was failure to-date at Top 40 radio: the single failed to chart on either the Top 40 Tracks or Rhythmic Top 40.
Internationally, "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" fared well on the charts. It performed best in South American nations such as Argentina and Brazil.
The Australian commercial release was cancelled at the last minute and the manufactured stock was added to the album and marketed as a bonus remix disc.
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was a moderate success in the UK peaking just outside the top ten at #12 and selling a total of 67,000 copies.
| Chart (2001)[1] | Peak Position |
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| United World Chart | 8 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Argentinian Singles Chart | 7 |
| Belgian Singles Chart | 10 |
| Brazilian Singles Chart | 3 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 26 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 16 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 11 |
| French Singles Chart | 18 |
| German Singles Chart | 9 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 8 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 23 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 9 |
| Peruvian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 6 |
| UK Singles Chart | 12 |
[edit] Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know".
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Europe CD single
France CD single
Japan CD single
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UK CD single
UK limited edition
UK promo 12" vinyl
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[edit] Remixes and official versions
- Album version 3:50
- Instrumental 3:50
- Hex Hector Club Mix 10:12
- Hex Hector Dub 8:06
- Hex Hector Club Mix [Edit] 8:15
- Hex Hector Radio Mix 4:01
- Thunderpuss Club Mix 10:03
- Thunderpuss Radio Mix 4:20
- Thunderdub 9:03
- Thunderpuss Tribe-a-Pella 6:52
- Azza Remix [a.k.a. Fingers Remix] 3:48
- Tony Tee & Johnny FX Dark Remix 8:40
- Live 4:07 – Special live version released in Thailand.
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last To Know" is the thirteenth track on the U.S. version of Now That's What I Call Music! 7
