The Writing's on the Wall
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Credits and personnel
- Bill Ortiz – trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
- Daryl Simmons – drum programming, keyboard programming
- D'Wayne Wiggins – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, producer - Rodney Jerkins – producer
- Claudine Pontier – assistant engineer
- James Hoover – engineerEngineerAn engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
- Steve Baughman – mixing assistant
- Missy Elliott – performer
- Jimmy Douglas – engineer
- Prince Charles AlexanderPrince Charles AlexanderBorn Charles Alexander on April 2, 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts, Prince Charles Alexander is a Grammy Award winning American producer, audio engineer, recording artist and educator....
– mixing - Vince Lars – saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Albert Sanchez – photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Blake Eiseman – engineer
- Dexter Simmons – mixing
- Brian Springer – engineer
- Joey Swails – engineer
- Destiny's Child – main performer
- Dan Workman – engineer
- LaShawn Daniels – vocal producer
- Anthony Hardy – producer
- Beyoncé Knowles – lead vocals, background vocals
- LeToya Luckett – background vocals, Lead vocals
- LaTavia Roberson – background vocals, lead vocals
- Mathew Knowles – executive producer, mixing
- Kelly Rowland – lead vocals, background vocals
- Michelle Williams – background vocals (re-issued version only on UK Limited Edition Bonus CD "Independent Women Part I & II")
- Farrah Franklin - background vocals (re-issued version only on UK Limited Edition Bonus CD "Independent Women Part I & II")
- Kenny Stallworth – assistant engineer
- Donald "Lenny" Holmes – producer
- K-Fam – producer
- Gerard Thomas – producer
- Chris Bell – engineer
- Brad Gildem – engineer
- Jean Marie Hurout – engineer, mixing
- Kevin "Shekspere" Briggs – producer
- Kevin "KD" Davis – mixing
- Tara Geter Tillman – background vocals
- Mike Calderon – engineer
- Jon Gass – engineer
- Thom "TK" Kidd – engineer
- Tony Williams – drum programming
- Vernon J. Mungo - engineer
Charts
| Chart (1999) | Provider | Peak position |
Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... Albums Top 50 |
ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
2 | 3x Platinum (210,000) |
| Austrian Albums Chart | Media Control 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... |
18 | |
| Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart | Ultratop Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
8 | |
| Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart | 19 | ||
| Canada Top 50 Albums | CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... /Nielsen SoundScan Nielsen SoundScan Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada... |
2 | 5x Platinum (500,000) |
| Danish Albums Chart | 16 | Gold (30,000) | |
| Dutch Albums Chart | MegaCharts MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
3 | 2x Platinum (160,000) |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 15 | ||
| French Albums Chart | SNEP/IFOP | 32 | Gold (150,000) |
| German Albums Chart | Media Control 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... |
21 | Gold (250,000) |
| Japanese Albums Chart | Oricon | 33 | |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | RIANZ | 6 | 3x Platinum (45,000) |
| Norwegian Albums Chart | VG Nett | 6 | Gold (30,000) |
| Swedish Albums Chart | GLF | 21 | Gold (50,000) |
| Swiss Albums Chart | Media Control | 23 | Gold (45,000) |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
BPI British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... /The Official UK Charts Company The Official UK Charts Company The Official Charts Company , previously called the Chart Information Network and then The Official UK Charts Company, compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video... |
10 | 3x Platinum (900,000) |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... |
5 | 8x Platinum Platinum Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal... (8,000,000) |
| U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
2 |