More Than a Woman (Aaliyah song).html



“More than a Woman”
Single by Aaliyah from the album Aaliyah
Released	October 29, 2001 November 13, 2001 January 7, 2002 March 5, 2002
Format	CD single, vinyl single, digital download
Genre	R&B, dance-pop, neo soul
Length	3:49
Label	Blackground/Virgin
Writer(s)	Timbaland Static Major
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 Static Major and Timbaland 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.

Music video

The music video for "More than a Woman" was directed by Dave Meyers and shot in Los Angeles in mid-2001. 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. The song also features Angie Martinez from the urban radio station Hot 97. Aaliyah performed this song on Regis & Kelly and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Summer 2001. It reached number-one on BET's 106 & Park countdown soon after "Rock the Boat" was retired. "More than a Woman" landed at Number 11 on BET's Notarized Top 100 Videos of 2002.

Track listing

1. More Than A Woman (Album Version)
2. More Than A Woman (Bump N Flex Club Mix)
3. One In A Million

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-one¹ and peaked at number twenty five on its ninth week². The song stayed in the chart for twenty four weeks³. The song ranked fifty-eight on the 2002 year-end chart of Hot 100⁴. In Europe, the song became Aaliyah's third number-one single on the "Euro 200" chart after her hit singles "The One I Gave My Heart To" and "Try Again".

The song reached the top twenty in Ireland and Switzerland.

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