Stronger (Britney Spears song)

"Stronger" is the third single from Pop singer Britney Spears released from the album Oops!... I Did It Again during the fourth quarter of 2000.

The song was written and produced by constant suppliers Max Martin and Rami. In this anthem, Spears sings about overcoming the difficulties of love as she proclaims she is "stronger than yesterday." The single is seen by some as the unofficial sequel to "...Baby One More Time" as Britney declares, "my loneliness ain't killing me no more..."; in the song's prequel, Spears laments, "my loneliness is killing me."

Music video

Directed by Joseph Kahn and shot in Los Angeles, the music video for "Stronger" begins with Spears arriving at a party, only to find that her boyfriend has cheated on her with another woman. Between scenes of the man chasing after her at the gathering to try to get her back, are cuts of Britney dancing with a chair, similarly to Janet Jackson's Pleasure principle and Miss You Much dance sequences.

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Spears dancing with the chair.

The second half of the video finds Spears driving away from the party in a thunderstorm; however, before long, her car stops and she's forced to continue walking on in the rain. Cuts of her dancing with now a cane transformed from the chair are also included. The video ends with Britney walking across a bridge.

"Stronger" became yet another to retire on MTV's TRL.

Awards

The video was later nominated for a MTV Video Music Award in the category of Best Pop Video. She was also nominated on the 2001 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Single.

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result
2001	MTV Video Music Awards	Best Pop Video	Nominated
2001	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Single	Nominated

Tracklisting

Japanese EP

1. . Stronger
2. . Stronger [Instrumental]
3. . Walk on By
4. . Stronger [Miguel Migs Vocal Edit]

U.K. Tracklisting

1. . Stronger
2. . Walk On By
3. . Stronger [WIP Mix]

Promo Tracklisting

1. . Stronger
2. . Stronger [Pablo La Rosas Tranceformation Edit]

US Remix CD Single

1. Stronger (Oops!...I Did It Again Album Version) 3:23
2. Stronger (Mac Quayle Club Mix) 7:50
3. Stronger (Pablo La Rosa’s Tranceformation) 7:21
4. Stronger (Miguel Migs Vocal Mix) 6:31
5. Stronger (Jack D. Elliot Club Mix) 6:38
6. Stronger (Pimp Juice’s “Ain’t No Shame In This Vocal Mix Game” Mix) 6:50

Chart performance

"Stronger" peaked just outside the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at number eleven, after managing to top the Hot 100 Singles Sales for a week; this eventually led the song to achieve a Gold certification. Though the single's sales were very strong, the song's airplay was disproportionally weak; the track failed to even crack the top fifty of the Hot 100 Airplay. The nature of this low airplay (and high sales) performance is very similar to that of a previous Spears single: "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart."

In another similar twist pertaining to the aforementioned single, "Stronger," too, had a relatively weak run at Top 40 radio for a Spears single; while the song made the top twenty of the Mainstream Top 40, it only charted in the lower half of both the Top 40 Tracks and Rhythmic Top 40.

Though "Stronger" continued the pattern of Britney's singles making top ten placement in several European countries, it also only managed to go top twenty in about the same number of European and non-European nations, including Australia.

"Stronger" was released during the Christmas rush for number-one, however it failed. The single sold a total of 163,000 copies in the U.K.

Chart (2000) Peak U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 53 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales 1 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales 2 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 28 U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40 14 U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 37 U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 8 Argentina Top 40 Singles 2 Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles 13 Austrian Top 75 Singles 4 Belgium Top 50 Singles 15 Brazil Hot 100 Singles 5 Dutch Top 40 Singles 14 Finnish Top 20 Singles 8 France Top 100 Singles 20

Chart (2000) Peak Germany Top 100 Singles 4 Indonesia Top 20 Singles 1 Ireland Top 50 Singles 6 Mexican Top 100 Airplay 2 New Zealand RIANZ Top 50 Singles 15 Norwegian Top 20 Singles 11 Philippines Top 20 Singles 1 Sweden Top 60 Singles 4 Switzerland Top 100 Singles 6 'Tokio Hot 100' 40 U.K. Official Top 75 Singles 7 United World Chart 3

Chart trajectories

U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
Position	70	55	55	53	29	22	28	15	11	14	27	29	43	69	74

U.K. Official Top 75 Singles
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10
Position	7	11	14	10	14	26	38	48	57	62

United World Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Position	24	12	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	6	7	10	13	15	21	26	36

External links

• Britney Spears Official Web Site