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"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart"
Single by Britney Spears
from the album ...Baby One More Time
Released	January, 2000 February 22, 2000
Format	CD single
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop Ballad
Length	5:11
Label	Jive
Writer(s)	Eric Foster White
Producer(s)	Eric Foster White
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Chart positions
#14 (United States) #37 (Australia)
Britney Spears singles chronology
"Born to Make You Happy" (1999)	"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (2000)	"Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000)

"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" is the fifth and final single (fourth in the U.S. and Australia) from pop singer Britney Spears first album ...Baby One More Time. It was released during the first quarter of 2000.

The song was written and produced by Eric Foster White. In this melancholy love ballad, Spears recalls her first love and how she wishes it hadn't ended, as her true emotions are revealed "from the bottom of my broken heart." The song was excluded from Spears' greatest hits album "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative", for reasons unknown.

Contents 1 Music video 2 Chart performance 3 Tracklisting 4 External link

Directed by Gregory Dark, the video begins with Spears packing her belongings as she readies herself to move away from home. She is upset because she knows that she is going to miss her first love. Throughout the video, we see scenes of the two from their past, including one where they climb up onto a windmill. Towards the ending, we see Spears waiting at a bus stop while at the same time her first love is driving quickly to come see her one last time. However, by the time he finally gets there, she has already left on her bus. The video premiered on an episode of Muchmusic's Combat Zone. The video also became her fourth to retire on MTV's TRL.

"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" was successful, as it peaked within the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to its chart-topping placement on the Hot 100 Singles Sales; this would later lead to a Platinum certification. However, for the first time for a Spears single, airplay proved weak, and the track failed to crack even the top fifty of the Hot 100 Airplay. The single was later ranked at number seventy-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End chart for 2000.

Top 40 radio airplay was also considerably weaker this time around, as the single missed out on the top ten of all three charts: the Top 40 Tracks, Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic Top 40.

As "Born to Make You Happy" had just been released in most international markets, "My Broken Heart" was released in only a couple of other regions, one of which was Australia, where her local record company were given the choice between "Born To Make You Happy" and "My Broken Heart". They plumped for the latter, probably unwisely, as it just barely made it into the top forty there.

Chart (2000) Peak U.S. Billboard Hot 100 14 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 53 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales 1 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 24 U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40 16 U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 26 U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 5 Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles 37 Chilean Top 100 Singles 15 Indonesia Top 20 Singles 4 Mexican Top 100 Airplay 10 Philippine Top 20 Singles 1

• US CD Single

Released February 1, 2000

#	Title
1.	"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (Radio Edit)	4:34
2.	"(You Drive Me) Crazy" (Jazzy Jim's Hip Hop Mix)	3:40
3.	"Born to Make You Happy" (Enhanced Music Video)	3:38
4.	"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (Enhanced Music Video)	3:41

• Australian EP

Released February 22, 2000

#	Title
1.	"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (Radio Edit)	4:34
2.	"(You Drive Me) Crazy" (Jazzy Jim's Hip Hop Mix)	3:40
3.	"Thinkin' About You"	3:35
4.	"Sometimes" (Answering Machine Message)	0:25

• Britney Spears Official Web Site