More than a Woman (Aaliyah song)
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| Single by Aaliyah from the album Aaliyah |
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| Released | October 29, 2001  November 13, 2001  January 7, 2002  March 5, 2002  |
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| Format | CD single, vinyl single, digital download | |
| Genre | R&B, Dance-Pop, Neo Soul | |
| Length | 3:49 | |
| Label | Blackground/Virgin | |
| Writer(s) | Tim Mosley, Steve "Static" Garrett |
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| Producer | Timbaland | |
| Aaliyah North America singles chronology | ||
| "Rock the Boat" (2001) |
"More than a Woman" (2002) |
"I Care 4 U" (2002) |
| Aaliyah Eurasia singles chronology | ||
| "We Need a Resolution" (2001) |
"More than a Woman" (2001/2002) |
"Rock the Boat" (2002) |
| Aaliyah France singles chronology | ||
| "We Need a Resolution" (2001) |
"More than a Woman" (2001/2002) |
"I Refuse" (France Only) (2001) |
"More than a Woman" is an R&B song written by Steve "Static" Garrett and Tim "Timbaland" Mosley for Aaliyah's self-titled third studio album, Aaliyah (2001). It also was produced by Timbaland and incorporates uncredited elements of Syrian singer Mayada El Hennawi's composition "Alouli ansa." The song was released as the album's third North American single in fall 2001 (see 2001 in music) and the album's second single elsewhere during the first quarter of 2002 (see 2002 in music). The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.
[edit] Music video
The music video for "More than a Woman" was directed by Dave Meyers and shot in Los Angeles in mid-2001. It reached number-one on BET's 106 & Park countdown and is the only video in the programme's history that was played as a "New Joint" twice in one day. "More than a Woman" landed at number 11 on BET's Top 100 videos of 2002.
The video starts with Aaliyah riding a motorcycle down a highway when the camera zooms inside the exhaust pipe and shows Aaliyah dancing in a white catsuit with other female dancers. Between cuts she is riding the motorcycle and in another scene standing in front of a headlight with her back against the camera. Later in the video, Aaliyah is dancing with co-ed dancers, wearing leather pants, gloves, and boots, and a black tank-top. At the end, a silhouette of Aaliyah on her motorcycle is placed in front of sunset with the words "In loving memory of Aaliyah" above.
The English-American Grammy-Award winning music producer Mark Ronson appears in the video as a DJ in the club-dancing scenes.
[edit] Charts
On January 13, 2002, the song became Aaliyah's only number one hit in the United Kingdom, selling 32,081 copies for that week. It became the first time in UK chart history a posthumous release has taken over from another posthumous release when the song was replaced by George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", and the first time that a woman has had a posthumous number one single.
In the Billboard Hot 100, the song entered on the chart dated issue February 2, 2002 at number seventy-one[1] and peaked at number twenty five on it's ninth week[2]. The song stayed in the chart for twenty four weeks[3]. The song ranked fifty-eight on the 2002 year-end chart of Hot 100[4].
The song also became Aaliyah's second entry in the United World Chart, debuting at number thirty-seven but dropped off the next week.
The song reached the top twenty in Ireland and Switzerland.
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart [5] | 37 |
| Austrian Singles Chart [6] | 65 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 38 |
| French Singles Chart [7] | 25 |
| German Singles Chart [6] | 34 |
| Irish Singles Chart [8] | 13 |
| Sweden Singles Chart [6] | 52 |
| Swiss Singles Chart [6] | 16 |
| UK Singles Chart [6] | 1 |
| United World Chart [9] | 37 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [10] | 25 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play [10] | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs [10] | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks [10] | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 [10] | 12 |
| Preceded by "Gotta Get thru This" by Daniel Bedingfield |
UK Singles Chart number one single January 13, 2002 - January 19, 2002 |
Succeeded by "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison |
[edit] References
- ^ Chart Listing For The Week Of Feb 02 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman
- ^ Chart Listing For The Week Of Mar 30 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman
- ^ Chart Listing For The Week Of Jul 13 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman
- ^ More than a Woman - Aaliyah - 2002 Year-end Chart position
- ^ Australian Chart Performance. Australian Charts. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ a b c d e Chart Performance. Swisscharts. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ French Chart Performance. LesCharts. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ Irish History. The Irish Charts. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ More than a Woman on United World Chart
- ^ a b c d e AMG: Billboard Singles. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
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