From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
Categories: 1999 songs | 2000 singles | Ballads | Britney Spears songs | Pop songs
| "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | ||
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| Image:Broken.jpg | ||
| Single by Britney Spears from the album ...Baby One More Time | ||
| Released | 2000 | |
| Format | CD single | |
| Recorded | 1998 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 5:11 | |
| Label | Jive | |
| Writer(s) | Eric Foster White | |
| Producer(s) | Eric Foster White | |
| Video director | Gregory Dark | |
| Certification | Platinum | |
| Chart positions | ||
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| Professional reviews | ||
| Britney Spears singles chronology | ||
| "Born to Make You Happy" (1999) | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (2000) | "Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000) |
"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" is the fourth single from Pop singer Britney Spears in the United States and Australia, released from her first album ...Baby One More Time during the first quarter of 2000.
The song was written and produced by Eric Foster White. In this melancholy love ballad, Spears recalls her first love and how she wishes it hadn't ended, as her true emotions are revealed "from the bottom of my broken heart."
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Music video
Directed by Gregory Dark, the music video begins with Spears packing her belongings as she readies herself to move away from home. She is upset because she knows that she is going to miss her first love. Throughout the video, we see scenes of the two from their past, including one where they climb up onto a windmill. Towards the ending, we see Spears waiting at a bus stop while at the same time her first love is driving quickly to come see her one last time. However, by the time he finally gets there, she has already left on her bus. The video became her fourth to retire on MTV's TRL.
Chart performance
"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" was moderately successful, as it peaked within the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its chart-topping placement on the Hot 100 Singles Sales; this would later lead to a Platinum certification. However, for the first time for a Spears single, airplay proved weak, and the track failed to crack even the top fifty of the Hot 100 Airplay. The single was later ranked at number seventy-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End chart for 2000.
Top 40 radio airplay was also considerably weaker this time around, as the single missed out on the the top ten of all three charts: the Top 40 Tracks, Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic Top 40.
As "Born to Make You Happy" had just been released in most international markets, "Broken Heart" was sent to only a couple of regions to chart, one of which was Australia; however, it just barely made it into the top forty there.
Charts
World
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Australian ARIA Top 50 | #37 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Philippines Top 20 | #1 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | U.S. Hot 100 | #14 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | World Chart Show | #19 |
U.S. - Billboard
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Hot 100 | #14 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Hot 100 Airplay | #53 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Hot 100 Singles Sales | #1 (one week) |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Top 40 Tracks | #24 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Mainstream Top 40 | #16 |
| 2000 | "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" | Rhythmic Top 40 | #26 |
U.S. chart trajectory
| Billboard Hot 100 chart trajectory — weeks one to twenty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Chart position | 76 | 59 | 52 | 52 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 24 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 45 | 54 | 64 | 64 | 81 | 97 | 92 | 86 | 90 | ||||||||||