Everytime

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"Everytime"
Song

"Everytime" is a song co-written by American pop singer Britney Spears and her back-up singer Annette Stamatelatos, and is included on Spears' fourth album In the Zone (2003). Produced by Guy Sigsworth, it was released as the album's third single during the second quarter of 2004 (see 2004 in music). The song is a piano ballad about the loss of a loved one, and its protagonist states: "everytime I try to fly I fall / without my wings I feel so small / I guess I need you, baby". It was written in Germany.

Music video

Directed by David LaChapelle, the controversial music video for the song was originally supposed to depict Spears' character dying in a bathtub from an "accidental" overdose of pills and alcohol. When word leaked out about the video's content, protests lead to it being changed.

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Spears discovers herself to be bleeding.

The released video exists in two versions: the American version is slightly cleaned up, and the non-U.S. version shows more skin and blood. The video portrays Spears with her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by the paparazzi. One reporter pulls Spears from the back and gives her a concussion, something she does not initially notice. After the couple reach their hotel suite and have an argument (during which the boyfriend throws a vase), Spears disappears into the bathroom. While in the bathtub, Spears realizes that she is bleeding from the head and she loses consciousness and drowns in the bathtub.

In the video for Everytime, Spears dreams that she is found by her boyfriend and reincarnated. Spears' ghost is shown walking through a hospital where a Britney is dying in one cubicle and a baby is being born in the next, symbolizing the reincarnation. She wakes up at the end, in the bathtub, alive and smiling (perhaps realizing the preciousness of life). The video was at number one on MTV's Total Request Live countdown for six days, and it also reached number three on both VH1's Top 20 Countdown and MuchMusic's Countdown.

Chart performance

"Everytime" peaked at number fifteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its top twenty placement on the Hot 100 Airplay, and it reached the top ten on the Hot Digital Tracks chart; however, digital download statistics did not contribute to a song's Hot 100 position until 2005. It remained on the Hot 100 for eighteen weeks, was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of over 500,000 units and ranked at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2004.

Following the major worldwide successes of both "Me Against the Music" and "Toxic", "Everytime" followed the trend of making top ten placement in nearly every country it charted in. In Australia "Everytime" became Spears's third consecutive number-one single, and also received an ARIA gold certification for shipments of over 35,000 units. It also reached number one in the UK, where it stayed in the top forty for eleven weeks, sold 196,000 copies and ranked eighteenth on the 2004 year-end charts.

In Indonesia Chart, the song peaked #1 for non-consecutive 5 weeks. It became Britney's 12th #1 song in the chart.It ended up #5 in Indonesia Chart End-Year Single Chart. It spent 47 weeks on the chart from its first release to early 2005. Then, it made a comeback to chart three times in mid of 2005 to the end of 2005. So for total it spent 50 weeks on the chart. "Everytime" broke Britney's own record on this chart with "Toxic", which spent 47 weeks on the chart. So as now, "Everytime" still holds the record for longest running song on the chart all the time. It gave Britney 2 awards in Indonesia Magazine Music Awards in 2005, as Best Video and Best Pop Song.

In Mexico, "Everytime" spent 87 days inside MTV's "Los 10 + Pedidos" (Mexican TRL).

In Canada"Everytime" became Spears' longest-charting single with forty-six weeks in the top fifty and peaked at number two a week following its debut. The CRIA awarded the track a platinum single certification for shipments of over 10,000 units. It was placed at number sixteen on 2004's year-end list of the best-selling singles.

Charts

Chart (2004)[1] [2] [3] Peak
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 15
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 17
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales 23
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 25
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 4
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 7
Argentina Top 20 Singles 1
Australia Top 50 Singles 1
Austria Top 75 Singles 4
Belgium Top 50 Singles 4
Brazil Top 100 Singles 16
Canada Top 100 Singles 2
Chile Top 20 Singles 2
China Top 20 Singles 1
Denmark Top 20 Singles 5
Dutch Top 40 Singles 3
Dutch Mega Single Top 100 4
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 2
Finland Top 20 Singles 18
France Top 100 Singles 2
Chart (2004) Peak
German Top 100 Singles 2
Greece IFPI Top 50 Singles 16
India Top 20 Singles 1
Indonesia Chart 1
Latvian Airplay Top 12
Mexican Top 100 1
Irish Top 50 Singles 1
Norway Top 20 Singles 3
Perú Top 100 2
Portugal Top 20 Singles 2
Philippine Top 20 1
Russia Top 20 Singles 1
Sweden Top 60 Singles 3
Switzerland Top 100 Singles 6
U.K. Top (40/75) Singles 1
Ukraine Top 40 Singles 32
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 2
United World Chart 1

Certifications

Country Certification Sales
U.S Gold 500,000
Australian Gold 35,000
French Silver 125,000
UK Silver 200,000
worldwide 3 million 3 million

Mixes

  • Album Version 3:53
  • Radio Edit 3:40
  • Above & Beyond's Club Mix 8:46
  • Above & Beyond's Radio Mix 3:47
  • The Scumfrog Vocal Mix 9:53
  • Scumfrog Haunted Dub 8:22
  • Hi-Bias Radio Remix 3:29
  • Valentin Remix 3:25
  • Valentin Mixshow Edit 5:33
  • Dr. Octavo's Translucent Mixshow 5:15
  • Dr. Octavo's Translucent Mixshow Edit 5:15 - Vocal sample removed from this version.
  • Dr. Octavo's Lucid Mix 3:24
  • Ambient Mix by Worldwide Groove Corp. 4:25
  • Joe Bermudez Remix ?:?? - Unreleased
  • Larry Legend Vocal Mix 8:21
  • Larry Legend Dub 7:51
  • Human Highlight Reel Vocal Mix 8:04
  • Human Highlight Reel Dub 8:04
  • Victor Calderone Remix 9:47

All mixes listed are OFFICIAL.

Track listing

  • CD single (American version)
  1. "Everytime" (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:53
  2. "Everytime" (Hi-Bias Radio Remix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:29
  • CD maxi-single (European version)
  1. "Everytime" (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:53
  2. "Everytime" (Hi-Bias Radio Remix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:29
  3. "Everytime" (Above & Beyond's Radio Mix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:47
  4. "Don't Hang Up" (Spears, Britney/Schwartz, Josh/Kierulf, Brian) — 4:01
  • CD maxi-single (European and Canadian version)
  1. "Everytime" (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:53
  2. "Everytime" (Hi-Bias Radio Remix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:29
  3. "Everytime" (Above & Beyond's Radio Mix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 3:47
  4. "Everytime" (The Scumfrog Vocal Mix) (Stamatelatos, A./Spears, Britney) — 9:53

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Preceded by ARIA (Australia) number one single
June 27 2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by UK Singles Chart number one single
June 20 2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by United World Chart number one single
July 17 2004
Succeeded by