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"Someday"
Song
B-side"Chaotic"
"Mona Lisa"
"Over to You Now"

"Someday (I Will Understand)" is a single from Pop singer Britney Spears originally released from the EP/Bonus disc of Britney & Kevin: Chaotic... The DVD & More during the third quarter of 2005, though the song was later included in its Hi-Bias Signature Radio Remix form on the B in the Mix: The Remixes compilation.

"Someday" was written by Spears herself two weeks before she learned of her pregnancy with her first child, Sean Preston Federline. Spears plays all of the piano accompaniment on this record. The track was produced by Guy Sigsworth, who also produced "Everytime". The song also earned Spears an award for "Best Pop" at the Indonesia Magazine Awards.

Critical reception

"Someday (I Will Understand)" was generally very well-received by contemporary pop music critics. Billboard commented that Spears' "vocals relate the grateful time of a new born baby and future life a a child", and that "this potential song" has "a melody and lush production that carries the song into the clouds.[1] Blogcritics claims that song's "slow opening to a soft piano all the way to the spine-tingling bridge" is "one weeper of a ballad". "[2]. This is the first time since "Everytime" and "Shadow" from the album In the Zone that Britney Spears has received positive reviews for a ballad.

Music video

The music video for "Someday" premiered on the finale of Britney's reality show Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. In the video, a pregnant Britney is found about her home on her bed and looking out onto her yard, which includes a statue of an angel and leaves falling from the trees. This was the first of Spears' videos to be shot entirely in black-and-white. Britney said that the best word to describe the video was "simplicity", and that both the song and video perfectly captured the point she had then reached in her life.

The video was directed by Michael Haussman and produced by Nina Wong for Person Films.

Chart performance

When the video for "Someday" initially hit TRL's airwaves and online music outlets in June 2005, it was met with a positive response. However, before long, the song and its video dropped in popularity and the single failed to make an appearance on the charts in the U.S.

No release date was set for "Someday" in major international markets such as the UK and Australia, though the single did receive airplay in areas of Asia, Oceania and continental Europe, including Austria,Romania and Switzerland and Mexico. The video was a hit on MTV Brazil reaching number 1 on the Top 20, similar to TRL in Brazil and reached #1 on MTV "Los 10+Pedidos" in Mexico (Mexican TRL) for several days. the song reached #34 on the Mexican Airplay charts.

Chart (2005)[3] Peak
Position
Austrian Singles Chart 32
Belgian Singles Chart 17
European Single Chart 74
Finnish Singles Chart 15
German Singles Chart 22
Greek Singles Chart 8
Norwegian Singles Chart 18
Swedish Singles Chart 10
Swiss Singles Chart 8
'Tokio Hot 100' 33
'MTV Los 100+Pedidos del 2005 North' 10
Denmark Singles Top 40 8

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Someday (I Will Understand)".[4]

Japan CD Single (BVCQ-28030)

  1. "Someday (I Will Understand)" — 3:37
  2. "Chaotic" — 3:33
  3. "Mona Lisa" — 3:25
  4. "Over to You Now" — 3:42
  5. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Hi-Bias Signature Radio Remix] — 3:46

UK Promo CD (82876 722482)

  1. "Someday (I Will Understand)" — 3:37
  2. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Instrumental] — 3:37

Europe CD Single (82876 714272)

  1. "Someday (I Will Understand)" — 3:37
  2. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Instrumental] — 3:37
  3. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Hi-Bias Signature Radio Remix] — 3:46
  4. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Leama & Moore Remix] — 9:18

Europe 2-Track CD (82876 714282)

  1. "Someday (I Will Understand)" — 3:37
  2. "Someday (I Will Understand)" [Hi-Bias Signature Radio Remix] — 3:46

Remixes/Other versions

  • Album Version — 3:37
  • Instrumental — 3:37
  • Ford Radio Mix — 3:51
  • Ford Club Mix — 5:56
  • Gota Remix (featuring MCU) [Demo] — 3:50
  • Gota Remix (featuring MCU) — 4:42 (Only available on the Japanese Version of "B in the Mix: The Remixes")
  • Hi-Bias Signature Radio Remix — 3:46
  • K-Klub Remix
  • Leama & Moor Remix — 9:18
  • Leama & Moor Dub — Unreleased

References

  1. ^ [1] Billboard.com
  2. ^ [2] Top40.about.com
  3. ^ Chart peak positions:
  4. ^ UKBritney.tv Britney Spears — Someday (I Will Understand) (UK). Retrieved on May 27, 2007
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