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Survivor

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Survivor Album Cover
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Survivor is the third Destiny's Child album where Beyonce assumed more control than ever taking hand in co-producing and co-writing the entire album. The the trio said that everybody is singing lead on very song some critics say that it is totally inaccurate as most of the songs are completely sung by Beyonce alone including "Brown Eyes", "Perfect Man", and "Dance with Me" as well "Dangerously In Love", the song that Beyonce used for the title and lead track for her solo album. Though it was credited as being sung by the group.

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About

Released on May 1, 2001 under Columbia Records, the title Survivor was inspired by a DJ's joke about Destiny's Child members voting one another off the island that might somehow was related to their highly publicized feud where members coming in and out.

The album hit the stores in the spring of 2001 and entered immediately at the Billboard 200 spotting at number 1 selling over 650,000 copies on its first week. Predictably, "Independent Women Part I", "Survivor" and "Bootylicious" became huge hits where the latter became the groups fourth No. 1 Hot 100 single. The album sold well were later it was certified 4x platinum domestically and going on to sell a total over 12 million worldwide. All Up the albums and singles sold more than 450,000 units in Australia, and for the second year running, were one of the top 20 selling artists in Australia.

Tracks

Track Title Duration
1 Independent Women, Pt. 1 3:43
2 Survivor 4:14
3 Bootylicious 3:27
4 Nasty Girl 4:17
5 Fancy 4:12
6 Apple Pie À La Mode 2:58
7 Sexy Daddy 4:06
8 Independent Women, Pt. 2 3:48
Track Title Duration
9 Happy Face 4:30
10 Emotion 3:56
11 Dangerously In Love 4:52
12 Brown Eyes 4:47
13 The Story of Beauty 3:30
14 Gospel Medley 3:26
15 Outro (DC-3) Thank You 4:02

Awards & Certifications

2000
  • RIAA
    • Independent Women Part I - Certified 4x Platinum
2001
  • BPI
    • Certified 3x Platinum - Survivor
  • IFPI
    • Certified 2x Platinum in Europe - Europe
  • RIAA
    • Certified 2x Platinum - Survivor (Single)
    • Certified Platinum - Bootylicious
    • Certified Gold - Emotion
2002
  • RIAA
    • Certified 4x Platinum for Survivor

Chart Toppers

Year Single Hot R&B Billboard 100
2000 Independent Women Part I 1 1
2001 Bootylicious 2 1
2001 Survivor 6 2

Credits

Survivor: Independent Women Part 1 DVD Release
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Survivor: Independent Women Part 1 DVD Release

Performance Credits

Destiny's Child Primary Artist, Primary Artist

David Donaldson Keyboards

Nunzio Signore Guitar

Dwayne Wiggins Guitar

Walter Afanasieff Bass, Keyboards

Dan Workman Guitar

Beyoncé Vocals

Greg Bieck Keyboards

Eric Seats Multi Instruments

Technical Credits

Terry T. Engineer

David Donaldson Vocal Engineer

Calvin Gaines Producer

David Gleeson Engineer

Vladimir Meller Mastering

Dwayne Wiggins Producer

James Hoover Engineer, Vocal Engineer

Walter Afanasieff Arranger, Programming, Producer, drum programming

Tom Coyne Mastering

Poke Producer

Corey Rooney Producer

Jim Caruana Engineer

Poke & Tone Producer

Brian Springer Engineer, Vocal Engineer

Dan Workman Engineer, Vocal Engineer

Damon Elliott Producer, Engineer

Troy Gonzalez Engineer

Anthony Dent Producer, Engineer

Rob Fusari Producer

Beyoncé Producer, Vocal Arrangements

Mathew Knowles Producer, Executive Producer

Orlando Calzada Engineer

Michael Conrader Engineer

Marla Weinhoff Prop Stylist

Greg Bieck Programming, Engineer, drum programming, Digital Programming

Ken Huffnagle Engineer

Ramon Morales Engineer

Falonte Moore Producer

Errol "Poppi" McCalla Programming, Producer

Bill Lee Producer

Woody Pornpitaksuk Author

Robert Conley Programming

Trivia

  • "Independent Women Part 1" was the theme song for the film version of Charlie's Angels that was released as a single on October 2000.
  • In Australia, after the album debuted at #4 on the charts. It made a comeback months later, peaking at #8 on the Augstralian Charts once again.

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