| "More Than a Woman" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Aaliyah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Aaliyah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A-side | "Rock the Boat" "I Refuse" (France) |
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| B-side | "One in a Million" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | November 13, 2001 (See release history) |
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| Format | CD single, vinyl single, digital download | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2000—March 2001 Manhattan Center (New York City, New York) |
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| Genre | R&B, electro hop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:49 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Blackground/Virgin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Timbaland Steve "Static" Garrett |
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| Producer | Timbaland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"More Than a Woman" is a contemporary R&B/dance-pop song, written by Static Major and Timbaland for Aaliyah's self-titled third studio album, Aaliyah (2001). The music consists of a looped sample of "Alouli Ansa" a title of an Arabic song as recorded by the famous Syrian Arab singer Mayada El-Henawy."More Than a Woman" was released as the album's third North American single in fall 2001 and the album's second single elsewhere during the first quarter of 2002. The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.
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The music video for "More Than a Woman" was directed by Dave Meyers and shot in Los Angeles in August 2001, two weeks before the video shoot for "Rock the Boat". The video starts with a shot of W. 4th St. in Los Angeles, looking towards the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Aaliyah riding a 2001 model Triumph Speed Triple in the wrong direction when the camera zooms inside the exhaust pipe and shows Aaliyah dancing in a white Chanel catsuit with other female dancers between the pistons. Between cuts she is riding the motorcycle and doing wheelies 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 wearing Dainese Gear is placed in front of sunset with the words "In Loving Memory of Aaliyah" above. The English Grammy-Award winning music producer Mark Ronson appears in the video as a DJ, along with then girlfriend Rashida Jones.
It premiered on January 7, 2002 and landed at #1 on BET's 106 & Park countdown right after "Rock the Boat" was retired from the countdown. In Germany the music video ranked several times at #1 on the interactive voting show Select MTV on the MTV programme Webchart. It was one of Aaliyah's most popular music videos in Germany. "More Than a Woman" landed at #11 on BET: Notarized Top 100 Videos of 2002.
"More Than a Woman" was voted by the British public as "Best Video" and received an award at the 2002 UK MOBO Awards.
Aaliyah performed this song on Live with Regis & Kelly on July 18, 2001 and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 25, 2001, her last ever performance.
| Country | Release Date |
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| United States | November 13, 2001 |
| United Kingdom | January 16, 2002 |
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. All together, the single has sold 347,563 copies in the United kingdom.
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 in its ninth week.[2] The song stayed in the chart for twenty-four weeks.[3] The song ranked fifty-eighth on the 2002 year-end chart.[4]
The song reached the top twenty in Belgium, Ireland and Switzerland.
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[5] | 37 |
| Austrian Singles Chart[6] | 65 |
| Belgium Singles Chart (Flemish)[7] | 10 |
| Belgium Singles Chart (Wallonia)[8] | 31 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 38 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles | 2 |
| French Singles Chart[9] | 25 |
| German Singles Chart[6] | 34 |
| Irish Singles Chart[10] | 13 |
| Sweden Singles Chart[6] | 52 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[6] | 16 |
| UK Singles Chart[6] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] | 25 |
| U.S. Pop 100[12] | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[11] | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[11] | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks[11] | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40[11] | 12 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[11] | 19 |
| 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 |
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