"More Than a Woman" is a contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

/dance-pop

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 song, written by Static Major and Timbaland

Timbaland

Timothy Zachery Mosley , better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper....

 for Aaliyah

Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton , who performed under the mononym Aaliyah , was an American R&B recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 10, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside...

's self-titled third studio album, Aaliyah

Aaliyah (album)

Aaliyah is the self-titled third and final studio album by American R&B singer Aaliyah, released by Blackground and Virgin Records on July 17, 2001, in the United States...

(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 America

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n single in fall 2001

2001 in music

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 and the album's second single elsewhere during the first quarter of 2002

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. The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the 45th Annual Grammy Awards.

Music video

The music video

Music video

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 for "More Than a Woman" was directed by Dave Meyers

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David "Dave" Meyers is an American music video director.-Career:Meyers has directed over 200 music videos including: P!nk's "There You Go", "Most Girls", "You Make Me Sick", "Get The Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Feel Good Time", "Stupid Girls", "U + Ur Hand", "So What", "Please Don't...

 and shot in Los Angeles

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 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

Triumph Speed Triple

The Speed Triple is a series of motorcycles produced by Triumph Motorcycles. In 1994 the reborn Triumph became one of the earliest adopters of a new style of motorcycle referred to as a Streetfighter. This new class of bike was essentially a modern sport bike or race replica motorcycle but...

 in the wrong direction when the camera zooms inside the exhaust pipe and shows Aaliyah dancing in a white Chanel catsuit

Catsuit

A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment that covers the torso and the legs, and frequently the arms. They are usually made from stretchable material, such as lycra, chiffon, spandex , leather, latex, PVC, or velour, and frequently close using a zipper at the front or back.Catsuits, which...

 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

Dainese

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 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

Mark Ronson

Mark Daniel Ronson is an English DJ, guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl....

 appears in the video as a DJ, along with then girlfriend Rashida Jones

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.

It premiered on January 7, 2002 and landed at #1 on BET

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's 106 & Park

106 & Park

106 & Park is a Top Ten Hip-Hop and R&B music video show, set up in a countdown format, that airs weekdays at 6:00 PM on BET . Since its inception, it was the network's #1 rated show...

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.

Promotion

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.

Track listing

International CD single

1. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:50
2. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex
   Grant Nelson
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    Club Mix) – 5:31
3. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work
   Masters At Work
   Masters at Work is the house/garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. They first worked together using the name, which had been given to them by mutual friend Todd Terry , in 1990...
   
    Main Mix) – 8:50
4. "More Than A Woman" (Music Video)

European CD single

1. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:50
2. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Club Mix) – 5:30
3. "One In A Million" – 4:31
4. "More Than A Woman" (Music Video)

Australian CD single

1. "More Than A Woman" (Radio Edit) – 3:08
2. "Rock The Boat" (Album Version) – 4:34
3. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Club Mix) – 5:31
4. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Main Mix) – 8:50

US 7" double A-side

1. "Rock The Boat" (Album Version) – 4:34
2. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:51

European Vinyl

1. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:50
2. "More Than A Woman" (Instrumental) – 3:47
3. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Club Mix) – 5:31
4. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Instrumental) – 5:29

US Promo CD 1

1. "More Than A Woman" (Radio Edit) – 3:10
2. "More Than A Woman" (Instrumental) – 3:47

US Promo CD 2

1. "More Than A Woman" (Radio Edit) – 3:10
2. "More Than A Woman" (Santana's Radio Edit) – 3:25

European Promo CD

1. "More Than A Woman" (UK Radio Edit) – 3:08
2. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Edit) – 3:05
3. "More Than a Woman" (Masters At Work Edit) – 3:56

US Promo Vinyl

1. "More Than A Woman" (Santana's More Club Mix) – 9:26
2. "More Than A Woman" (Santana's Radio Edit) – 3:25
3. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:50
4. "More Than A Woman" (Album Instrumental) – 3:47
5. "More Than A Woman" (Santana's More Than A Dub) – 7:56

UK Promo Vinyl

1. "More Than A Woman" (Album Version) – 3:50
2. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Club Mix) – 5:31
3. "More Than A Woman" (Bump N' Flex Dub) – 5:09

Masters At Work Remixes Promo Vinyl 1

1. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Main Mix) – 8:47
2. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Beats) – 3:22
3. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Guitar Version) – 4:20
4. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Instrumental) – 8:47
5. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Alternative Version) – 8:16

Masters At Work Remixes Promo Vinyl 2

1. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Dub 1) – 8:30
2. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Dub 2) – 5:20
3. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Dub 3) – 6:10
4. "More Than A Woman" (Masters At Work Bonus Beats) – 4:03

Release history

Country	Release Date
United States
United Kingdom

Charts

On January 13, 2002, the song became Aaliyah's only number one hit in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, 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

George Harrison

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's "My Sweet Lord

My Sweet Lord

"My Sweet Lord" is a song by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison from his UK number one hit triple album All Things Must Pass. The song was written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna...

", 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

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, the song entered on the chart dated issue February 2, 2002 at number seventy-one and peaked at number twenty-five in its ninth week. The song stayed in the chart for twenty-four weeks. The song ranked fifty-eighth on the 2002 year-end chart.

The song reached the top twenty in Belgium

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, Ireland

Ireland

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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.

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	37
Austrian Singles Chart	65
Belgium Singles Chart (Flemish) Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...	10
Belgium Singles Chart (Wallonia) Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...	31
Dutch Singles Chart Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	38
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles Eurochart Hot 100 Singles The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,...	2
French Singles Chart	25
German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	34
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	13
Sweden Singles Chart	52
Swiss Singles Chart	16
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	25
U.S. Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...	19
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	11
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	7
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks Top 40 Tracks Top 40 Tracks is a defunct airplay chart from Billboard Magazine. It was created in 1998, when Billboard Magazine changed the airplay profile of The Hot 100 Airplay to include more R&B, Country, and Rock stations to its profile . To preserve the notion of the former chart, Top 40 Tracks was...	19
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 Rhythmic Airplay Chart The Rhythmic Airplay Chart is an airplay chart that is featured weekly in Billboard Magazine. The chart tracks and measures the airplay of songs played on Rhythmic stations, whose playlist includes mostly hit-driven R&B/Hip-Hop, Rhythmic pop, and some Dance tracks...	12
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...	19