This Day in Pop: Britney releases 'From the Bottom of My Broken Heart' single in 1999 (December 15)

[PokemonSpears]

On December 15, 1999, Britney Spears released From the Bottom of My Broken Heart, the last single off her debut album ...Baby One More Time. It was written and produced by Eric Foster White. The teen pop ballad talks about the pain and heartbreak she experiences after the end of a relationship, her desires to tell her love interest that he was her first and true love. Recorded in New Jersey and New York, Dan Petty and Andy Hess played the guitar and bass guitar respectively. Britney, Angie Simmons, Don Philip and Andrew Fromm provided the background vocals.

The digital single contains Thinkin' About You as its B-side while the physical cassette included a remix of (You Drive Me) Crazy

 

The song peaked at #14 on the US BBH100, shipping 1M copies, and selling over 770 thousand of them. It is her second best-selling physical single in the United States. It also charted in New Zealand at #20, Canada #25, Australia #37 and the UK at #174.

The song was performed in her first three tours, as well as other televised performances, including the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of days later, a music video was released to promote the single, so we'll commemorate that later

[PokemonSpears]

The photoshoot for the cover of the single, done by Timothy White

[edamamebeans]

i love the single cover 

so beautiful 

[Midnight]

I'm heartless I don't like this song at all  cute photoshoot though 

[4EverIntoxicated]

I had this disc! 

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

Britney out sang Aretha Franklin, Whitney, and Mariah with this song!

[BRITannico]

Love the music video, I think she looks gorgeous.

my dream is to find the cassette tape to buy it.

[Hooked-On-Knee]

How dare y'all let this song not be remembered and be out-shadowed by Born To Make You Happy.

[Stannedforever]

4 minutes ago, Hooked-On-Knee said:

How dare y'all let this song not be remembered and be out-shadowed by Born To Make You Happy.

Happens when you release song in like 3 countries vs UK / European release that BTMYH got

[Hooked-On-Knee]

1 minute ago, Stannedforever said:

Happens when you release song in like 3 countries vs UK / European release that BTMYH got

From The Bottom of My Broken Heart OUTSOLD and out-sang.

Born To Make You Happy is my second favourite song from the ...Baby One More Time album (after E-Mail My Heart. ) but this song deserved it's position as a single.

[Brat]

Bottom? 

[Frankie8]

I like BTMYH but was still fine this was released. She did serve vocals when she performed this song. I remember calling my radio station to request it and he laughed and said they threw the song in the toilet

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

Our most popular pop radio station used to only play this remix. Made me love the song even more.

 

[PokemonSpears]

Also, we can't forget La Factoría's Todavía, which was a total ripoff of the song, but they never credited it

 

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

7 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

Also, we can't forget La Factoría's Todavía, which was a total ripoff of the song, but they never credited it

 

Is this a Spanish version of FTBOMBH? Or did they just sample the melody of the chorus?

[PokemonSpears]

6 minutes ago, SloppyToppyGoddess said:

Is this a Spanish version of FTBOMBH? Or did they just sample the melody of the chorus?

they "sampled" the chorus, but they pretended it was an original song, never credited Eric Foster White

[SloppyToppyGoddess]

26 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

they "sampled" the chorus, but they pretended it was an original song, never credited Eric Foster White

Was the song a hit? They shouldve been sued if it was.

[PokemonSpears]

4 minutes ago, SloppyToppyGoddess said:

Was the song a hit? They shouldve been sued if it was.

it was a huge hit in Latin America, it was like one of the only two hits that group had lol

[rennen]

The live performances of this song, the actual live ones and not the pre-recorded ones, are actually fairly decent. 

However, I hate that Grammy performance. I really dislike the whole arrangement of both songs. 

[ColdAsFire88]

5 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

Also, we can't forget La Factoría's Todavía, which was a total ripoff of the song, but they never credited it

 

Anyway, this song always reminds me of the fall. I was in the fifth grade and I remember radio playing it around November. The video also has a fall vibe to it. 

As a Britney fan I tried hard to get into it because she serves vocally but its one of her forgettable singles