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Everytime
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| Single by Britney Spears | ||
| from the album In the Zone | ||
| Released | June 2004 (Worldwide) Italy: December 2004, (video only) |
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| Format | CD single 12" single Digital download |
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| Recorded | 2003 | |
| Genre | Piano pop | |
| Length | 3:53 | |
| Label | Jive | |
| Writer(s) | Britney Spears Annette Artani |
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| Producer(s) | Guy Sigsworth | |
| Certification | Gold (RIAA, ARIA) | |
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| Britney Spears singles chronology | ||
| "Toxic" (2004) |
"Everytime" (2004) |
"Outrageous" (2004) |
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"Everytime" is a song co-written by American pop singer Britney Spears and her back-up singer Annette Artani, 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.
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This song has been covered by Glen Hansard and Colm Mac Con Iomaire, members of the band "The Frames." It was recorded for the "Today FM" CD titled "Even Better Than the Real Thing Volume 2" (out of Ireland) which also included a cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic." All volumes are currently available on iTunes. The melody of Pachebels' "Canon in D" is played at the end of the cover. The Taiwanese trio S.H.E. covered the song in Mandarin for their album Encore (Bie Shuo Dui Bu Qi / Don't Have to Apologize).
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.
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.
Unconsciousness Spears follow her body to the hospital. Spears' ghost/spirit is shown walking through a hospital where a Britney is dying in one bed 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.
"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 100,000 legal digital downloads 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 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.
In Latin America, the song charted inside the top ten in most countries, not achieving the same amount of success as its predecessor, "Toxic", but still, the song reached number-nine on the Latin American Top 40 Singles Chart spending four non-consecutive weeks inside the top ten and sixteen weeks overall.
In Italy, "Everytime" was released as the second single (after "My Prerogative") from her "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative" album due to the long chart-running of "Toxic" in the country. The single was only released as a video one: no CD single or radio airplay was avialable, so the song could only chart on video charts.
Not all remixes are official.
Studio albums: ...Baby One More Time (1999) · Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) · Britney (2001) · Other albums: Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004) · B in the Mix: The Remixes (2005) Singles: "...Baby One More Time " · "Sometimes" · "(You Drive Me) Crazy" · "Born to Make You Happy" · "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" · "Oops!...I Did It Again" · "Lucky" · "Stronger" · "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" · "I'm a Slave 4 U" · "Overprotected" · "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" · "I Love Rock 'N Roll" · "Boys" · "Me Against the Music" · "Toxic" · "Everytime" · "Outrageous" · "My Prerogative" · "Do Somethin'" · "Someday (I Will Understand)" · "And Then We Kiss" Related articles: Discography · Awards · Music videos · Tours · Products
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