Survivor (Destiny's Child album)

Survivor
Studio album by Destiny's Child
Released	May 1, 2001
Recorded	May 2000 – February 2001
Genre	R&B pop[1]
Length	59:37 (standard)
Label	Columbia
Producer	Anthony Dent K-Fam Mark J. Feist Rob Fusari Beyoncé Knowles Errol "Poppi" McCalla Jr Falonte Moore Poke & Tone Rapture & E. Seats Cory Rooney J. R. Rotem Dwayne Wiggins
Destiny's Child chronology
The Platinum's on the Wall (2001) Survivor (2001) Love: Destiny (2001)
Singles from Survivor
"Independent Women" Released: September 14, 2000 "Survivor" Released: February 13, 2001 "Bootylicious" Released: May 20, 2001 "Emotion" Released: October 8, 2001 "Nasty Girl" Released: March 25, 2002

Survivor is the third studio album by American girl group Destiny's Child. It was first released by Columbia on May 1, 2001, in the United States. The album involves production by lead singer Beyoncé Knowles and J.R. Rotem with additional production from Poke & Tone, Cory Rooney and Mark J. Feist. Five singles were released from the album: "Independent Women", "Survivor", "Bootylicious", a cover of The Bee Gees' "Emotion", and "Nasty Girl".

In the US, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart on May 19, 2001 with first-week sales of 663,000 units and stayed at number one for two consecutive weeks. It earned Destiny's Child three Grammy nominations for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Album. Survivor was certified quadruple Platinum by the RIAA on January 7, 2002. Billboard magazine ranked Survivor at number 70 on the magazine's Top 200 Albums of the Decade.^[2] The album went onto sell more than 10 million copies worldwide, including over 4.7 million in the United States alone.^[3]

Conception

Background

In December 1999, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson tried to split with their manager, Mathew Knowles, claiming that he was keeping too much of the group's profits and that he favored Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland.^[4] When the music video for "Say My Name" debuted in February 2000, Roberson and Luckett found out that they were being replaced with Michelle Williams, a former backup singer for Monica, and Farrah Franklin, an aspiring singer-actress.^[4] In July 2000, just five months after joining, it was announced that Franklin would be leaving the group.^[4] According to the group, Franklin missed a handful of promotional appearances and concerts and was asked to leave the group.^[4] Franklin stated that she quit because of negative vibes in the group and her inability to assert any control in decision making.^[4]

Recording

After emerging as the group's focal point, Knowles assumed more control taking a greater hand in writing the material and even producing some of the record herself.^[5] Knowles' intention was not to monopolize the spotlight, however, she did co-write and produce all of the album's 15 cuts. She explained, "I only wanted to do like three songs... The label kept saying "Do another song, do another song, do another song". It wasn't planned. It wasn't like I said, OK, I'm going to take charge."^[6] The album was originally planned to be called Independent Women, but was later changed to Survivor because of the turmoil that has coincided with the group.^[7]

The song "Survivor" was inspired by a joke that a radio station had made about the fact that three members had already left the group.^[3] Knowles was inspired to take the negative comment and turn it into a positive thing by writing a song out of it.^[3] Knowles wrote the song "Bootylicious" on a plane flight to London while listening to the track "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks when the word "Bootylicious" just popped in to her head.^[6] This claim has been highly disputed as Rob Fusari said in a 2010 interview that he alone had the idea for the song and had wanted to use a guitar riff from the song "Eye of the Tiger" but after not being able to find it used a similar riff from the Stevie Nicks song "Edge of Seventeen". After hearing Beyoncé claim credit for the song in an interview with Barbara Walters, he telephoned Mathew Knowles,

And he explained to me, in a nice way, he said, "People don't want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offense, but that's not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything." And I'm like, "Yeah, I know, Mathew. I understand the game. But come on, I'm trying too. I'm a squirrel trying to get a nut, too."^[8]

While recording sessions were going on, Rowland recorded the song "Angel" which appeared on the soundtrack of Down to Earth.^[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	63/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The A.V. Club	(unfavorable)[11]
Blender	[9]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
NME	(7/10)[1]
Playlouder	[13]
Robert Christgau	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Slant Magazine	[17]

The album garnered positive to mixed reviews. Survivor received a score of 63/100 on Metacritic, based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[9] Entertainment Weekly praised the album saying that "(Survivor) is the divas' premature, but inevitable growing pains album." Spin magazine commented that "Survivor is relentlessly inventive in its recombinations."^[18] But New York Magazine was less impressed saying: "All fifteen tracks are one-dimensional disses and dismissals of scantily clad women, vengeful boyfriends, and the group's assorted doubters." Allmusic commented that the album is "as contrived and calculated as a Mariah Carey record, only without the joy."^[10]

The album won the Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year, the Teen Choice Award for R&B/Soul Album of the Year – Group, Band, or Duo, and the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Album. Destiny's Child won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal by Duo or Group for the song "Survivor". Survivor itself was nominated for Best R&B Album.^[19]

Commercial performance

Survivor, entered the Billboard albums chart at number one with the highest first-week sales figures (more than 663,275) of any female group in the SoundScan era and the highest first-week sales figures of any album in Columbia Records' history. It remained atop the chart in its second week with a 49% decline to 358,959, pushing the albums sales past the one million mark after only 2 weeks in stores and remains the longest run atop the chart for Destiny's Child.^[3] In its third week Survivor slipped to number 3 scanning 221,884 and held the same position in its fourth frame with 175,237 copies sold. In its fifth week the album climbed one spot to No.2 with 169,487 scans.^[3] Survivor spent its first thirteen weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 (2 more than The Writing's on the Wall) and by the end of 2001 had sold 3,718,446 copies in the US and ranked as the seventh best-selling album of the year, the second year in a row that the group had made the top ten best-sellers list.^[3]

Survivor debuted at number one in over nine countries, including the United Kingdom where it was certified 3× Platinum by BPI for sales of over 900,000 and went on to sell over a million copies. It also reached number one in Canada, selling over 31,000 copies in its first week (and was eventually certified 4× Platinum, for sales of 400,000 copies), as well as debuting or peaking in the top ten in Australia, Sweden, Japan, France, Italy, Finland and Poland. With Survivor, Destiny's Child became the first US female group to have a number one album on the UK charts since Diana Ross and the Supremes hit the position 24 years ago with a greatest hits package. Survivor is the first album of original studio material (i.e., not a greatest hits collection) by a female American group to hit number one in the 43-year history of the UK chart.

"Survivor", the album's title track, spent six weeks at the number-two position on the Billboard Hot 100. "Independent Women Part I" (also featured in the remake film Charlie's Angels and on its soundtrack) occupied the number one slot on Billboard's Hot 100 (for 11 weeks), R&B and dance charts. The video for the following single from Survivor, "Bootylicious" (which topped the Hot 100 for 2 weeks), featured a cameo by Stevie Nicks.

In Europe the album was certified 2× Platinum in recognition of two million albums sold across the continent; its sales have since surpassed the three million mark. The album was certified 2× Platinum in Australia. The IFPI reported that Survivor was the 3rd best-selling album worldwide of 2001 with 7.8 million copies sold during the year.

Legacy

The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[20]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Independent Women"	Beyoncé Knowles S. Barnes Cory Rooney J.C. Olivier	Knowles Poke and Tone Rooney	3:42
2.	"Survivor" (includes "Bootylicious" prelude)	B. Knowles Dent M. Knowles	B. Knowles Dent	4:14
3.	"Bootylicious"	Knowles Rob Fusari Falonte Moore Stevie Nicks	Knowles Fusari Moore	3:28
4.	"Nasty Girl"	Knowles Dent M. Bassi N. Hacket	Knowles Dent	4:18
5.	"Fancy"	Knowles Dwayne Wiggins J. Rotem	Knowles Wiggins	4:13
6.	"Apple Pie à la Mode"	Knowles Fusari Moore	Knowles Fusari Moore	2:59
7.	"Sexy Daddy"	Knowles Damon Elliott	Knowles Damon Elliott	4:07
8.	"Independent Women Part II"	Knowles R. Stewart E. Seats F. Comstock D. Donaldson		3:46
9.	"Happy Face" (includes "Emotion" prelude)	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee Moore	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee Moore	4:32
10.	"Emotion"	Barry Gibb Robin Gibb	B. Knowles Mark J. Feist M. Knowles	3:56
11.	"Dangerously in Love"	Knowles Errol McCalla Jr.	Knowles McCalla Jr.	4:53
12.	"Brown Eyes" (includes "The Story of Beauty" prelude)	Knowles Walter Afanasieff	Knowles	4:47
13.	"The Story of Beauty"	Knowles Ken Fambro	Knowles Fambro	3:32
14.	"Gospel Medley" (Dedicated to Andretta Tillman)	Knowles K. Franklin R. Smallwood	Knowles	3:25
15.	"Outro (DC-3) Thank You"	Knowles Rowland Williams Fusari Lee Gaines	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee	4:03

International edition

Cat. number: Europe COL 501783 2,^[21] Australia 501703 2^[22]

Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Independent Women"	Knowles S. Barnes Cory Rooney J.C. Olivier	Knowles Poke and Tone Rooney	3:42
2.	"Survivor" (includes "Bootylicious" prelude)	Dent B. Knowles M. Knowles	B. Knowles Dent	4:14
3.	"Bootylicious"	Knowles Rob Fusari Falonte Moore Stevie Nicks	Knowles Fusari Moore	3:28
4.	"Nasty Girl"	Knowles Dent M. Bassi N. Hacket	Knowles Dent	4:18
5.	"Fancy"	Knowles Dwayne Wiggins J. Rotem	Knowles Wiggins	4:13
6.	"Apple Pie à la Mode"	Knowles Fusari Moore	Knowles Fusari Moore	2:59
7.	"Sexy Daddy"	Knowles Damon Elliott	Knowles, Damon Elliott	4:07
8.	"Perfect Man"	Knowles Stewart Seats	Stewart Seats	3:41
9.	"Independent Women Part II"	Knowles Stewart Seats F. Comstock Donaldson		3:46
10.	"Happy Face"	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee Moore	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee Moore	4:20
11.	"Dance With Me"	Knowles C. Schack K. Karlin	Knowles Soulshock & Karlin	3:43
12.	"My Heart Still Beats" (feat. Beyoncé) (includes "Emotion" prelude)	Knowles Walter Afanasieff	Afanasieff Beyoncé Knowles	4:08
13.	"Emotion"	B. Gibb R. Gibb	B. Knowles M. Knowles Mark J. Feist	3:56
14.	"Brown Eyes"	Knowles Afanasieff	Afanasieff Beyoncé Knowles	3:25
15.	"Dangerously in Love" (includes "The Story of Beauty" prelude)	Knowles McCalla Jr.	Knowles McCalla Jr.	4:53
16.	"The Story of Beauty"	B. Knowles Fambro	B. Knowles Fambro	3:32
17.	"Gospel Medley" (Dedicated to Andretta Tillman)	Knowles K. Franklin R. Smallwood	Knowles	3:25
18.	"Outro (DC-3) Thank You"	Knowles Rowland Williams Fusari Lee Gaines s	Knowles Fusari Calvin Gaines Bill Lee	4:03

• "Bootylicious" contains elements from "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)" by Stevie Nicks.
• "Nasty Girl" contains repeated interpolations from Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy" and Salt-n-Pepa's "Push It". It also contains elements from "Peabody's Improbable History".
• "Gospel Medley" consists of an interpolation of Kirk Franklin's "Holy Is the Lamb", the Anna Bartlett Warner hymn "Jesus Loves Me" and concludes with the final section of Richard Smallwood's "Total Praise".

Personnel

• Mark J. Feist – producer, arranger, programming
• Tony Maserati – mixing
• Vladimir Meller – mastering
• Dave Pensado – mixing
• Nunzio Signore – guitar
• Richard Travali – mixing
• D'Wayne Wiggins – guitar, producer
• Richard J. Davis – production coordination
• James Hoover – engineer, vocal engineer
• Walter Afanasieff – bass, programming, drum programming, arranger, producer, keyboards
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Poke – producer
• Corey Rooney – producer
• Jim Caruana – engineer
• Dexter Simmons – mixing
• Poke & Tone – producer
• Brian Springer – engineer, vocal engineer
• Flip Osman – assistant engineer, assistant
• Jill Topol – stylist
• Destiny's Child – main performer
• Nick Thomas – mixing
• Dan Workman – guitar, mixing, vocal engineer, engineer
• Damon Elliott – producer, engineer
• Troy Gonzalez – engineer
• Anthony Dent – producer, engineer
• Rob Fusari – producer
• Beyoncé Knowles – vocals, songwriter, producer, vocal arrangement
• Kelly Rowland – vocals, songwriter, vocal arrangement
• Michelle Williams – vocals
• Farrah Franklin – vocals
• Michael McCoy – assistant engineer
• Wassim Zreik – assistant
• Mathew Knowles – producer, executive producer
• Tina Knowles – hair stylist, stylist
• Orlando Calzada – engineer
• Michael Conrader – engineer
• Dave Way – mixing
• Marla Weinhoff – prop stylist
• Greg Bieck – keyboards, digital programming, drum programming, engineer, programming
• Pete Krawiec – assistant engineer
• Kent Huffnagle – engineer
• Ramon Morales – engineer
• Falonte Moore – producer
• K-Fam – producer
• Errol McCalla – programming, producer
• Bill Lee – producer
• Woody Pornpitaksuk – author
• Eric Seats – multi instruments
• Robert Conley – programming
• Terry T. – engineer
• Thom Cadley – mixing
• David Donaldson – keyboards, vocal engineer
• Calvin Gaines – producer
• David Gleeson – engineer

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[23] 4 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[24] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[26] 1 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[27] 1 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[28] 7 Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[29] 1 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[30] 4 French Albums (SNEP)[31] 4 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[32] 1 Italian Albums (FIMI)[33] 9 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[34] 12 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[35] 5 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[36] 1 Polish Albums (ZPAV) 1 Scottish Albums (OCC)[37] 1 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[38] 2 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[39] 1 UK Albums (OCC)[40] 1 UK R&B Albums (OCC)[41] 1 US Billboard 200[42] 1 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[43] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position Australian Albums Chart[44] 20 Australian Urban Albums Chart[45] 10 Dutch Albums Chart[46] 4 French Albums Chart[47] 44 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[48] 11 UK Albums Chart 9 US Billboard 200[49] 12 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[50] 16 Chart (2002) Position Australian Urban Albums Chart[51] 14 Decade-end charts Chart (2000–09) Rank Dutch Albums Chart[52] 93 US Billboard 200[53] 70

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[54]	2× Platinum	140,000^^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[55]	Platinum	40,000^*
Brazil (ABPD)[56]	Gold	50,000^*
Belgium (BEA)[57]	Platinum	50,000^*
Canada (Music Canada)[58]	4× Platinum	400,000^^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[59]	Platinum	50,000^^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[60]	Platinum	34,121[60]
France (SNEP)[61]	2× Gold	228,900[62]
Germany (BVMI)[63]	Platinum	300,000^^
Japan (RIAJ)[64]	Platinum	200,000^^
Netherlands (NVPI)[65]	2× Platinum	160,000^^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[66]	2× Platinum	30,000^^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[67]	Platinum	50,000^*
Poland (ZPAV)[68]	Gold	50,000^*
Sweden (GLF)[69]	Platinum	80,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[70]	3× Platinum	1,000,000[71]
United States (RIAA)[72]	4× Platinum	4,739,000^[*]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[73]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^*
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Notes

• ^ * As of December 2009, the album has sold 4,300,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, which does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music.^[74] Combined, it has sold over 4,739,000 copies in the U.S. with additional 439,000 copies sold at BMG Music Clubs.^[75] Nielsen SoundScan does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service, which were significantly popular in the 1990s.

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