More than a Woman (Aaliyah song)

Infobox Single
Name = More than a Woman


Artist = Aaliyah
from Album = Aaliyah
Released = October 29, 2001 flagicon| GER November 13, 2001 flagicon| US January 7, 2002 flagicon| UK March 5, 2002 flagicon| Australia
Format = CD single, vinyl single, digital download
Genre = R&B, dance-pop, neo soul
Length = 3:49
Label = Blackground/Virgin
Writer = Timbaland
Static Major
Producer = Timbaland
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Aaliyah
Type = North America singles
Last single = "Rock the Boat" (2001)
This single = "More than a Woman" (2002)
Next single = "I Care 4 U" (2002)Extra chronology
Artist = Aaliyah
Type = Eurasia singles
Last single = "We Need a Resolution" (2001)
This single = "More than a Woman" (2001/2002)
Next single = "Rock the Boat" (2002)Extra chronology
Artist = Aaliyah
Type = France singles
Last single = "We Need a Resolution" (2001)
This single = "More than a Woman" (2001/2002)
Next single = "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. 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 and is the only video in the program'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.

Track listing

# More Than A Woman (Album Version)
# More Than A Woman (Bump N Flex Club Mix)
# 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-one [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3044376&cdi=7816394&cid=02%2F02%2F2002 Chart Listing For The Week Of Feb 02 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman] ] and peaked at number twenty five on its ninth week [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3044979&cdi=7838074&cid=03%2F30%2F2002 Chart Listing For The Week Of Mar 30 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman] ] . The song stayed in the chart for twenty four weeks [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3046119&cdi=7878836&cid=07%2F13%2F2002 Chart Listing For The Week Of Jul 13 2002 - Aaliyah - More than a Woman] ] . The song ranked fifty-eight on the 2002 year-end chart of Hot 100 [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=411&cfgn=Year-end+Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3077205&cdi=9012044&cid=12%2F31%2F2002 More than a Woman - Aaliyah - 2002 Year-end Chart position] ] . 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 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.

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