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SURVIVOR More informations about the third Destiny's child album !

SURVIVOR

1. Independent Women Part I
2. Survivor
3. Bootylicious
4. Nasty Girl
5. Fancy
6. Apple Pie @ La Mode
7. Sexy Daddy
8. Independent Women Part II
9. Happy Face
10. Emotion
11. Dangerously In Love
12. Brown Eyes
13. The Story Of Beauty
14. Gospel Medley
15. Outro (DC-3) Thank You
16. Perfect Man Bonus Tracks for Europe
17. My Heart still beats Bonus Tracks for Europe
18.Dance with Me. Bonus Tracks for Europe

Survivor is the third studio album by Destiny's Child, released on May 1, 2001.Two of its singles, "Bootylicious" and "Independent Woman Part I", reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and the title track, "Survivor", peaked at number two. Former Destiny's Child member Farrah Franklin appears on the international version of Survivor, on the tracks "Dance with Me", "Perfect Man", and "Independent Woman, Pt. 1", providing background vocals with Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland.

Singles

Released May 1, 2001
Recorded 2000–2001
Genre R&B, pop
Label Columbia
CK-61063
Producer Beyoncé Knowles, Mark J. Feist, Trackmasters Entertainment, J. R. Rotem, Anthony Dent

Survivor debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling over 663,000 copies in its first week. Within two months of its release the album was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in recognition of three million copied sold to retailers in the United States. The album was the seventh best-selling album of 2001, selling over 3.72 million copies during the year . It was certified four times platinum on January 4, 2002, and has sold 4.3 million copies in the U.S. to date , and over 440,000 copies through music club sales. It spent fourteen weeks in the top ten and forty six weeks on the Billboard 200, less than half the amount of time that Destiny's Child's previous album, The Writing's on the Wall (1999), spent on the chart.

Survivor debuted at number one in most of the countries it charted on including: the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. It landed in the top ten in Poland, Sweden, Japan, France, Italy and Finland. Worldwide, the album sold five million copies in its first five weeks, and though in the U.S. it didn't perform as well as The Writing's on the Wall, worldwide it matched the success of the previous album and even surpassed it in some countries. In Europe the album was certified two times platinum in recognition of two million albums sold across the continent. In Canada Survivor debuted at number one, selling over 31,000 copies in its first week, and it was certified four times platinum (400,000 copies) in October 2003. In South Africa and the United Kingdom the album was certified three times platinum; it spent four weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and eventually sold 1.02 million copies. The album was certified two times platinum in Australia. Survivor has sold 16 million copies worldwide.

Credits

Mark J. Feist – Producer, Arranger, programming
Tony Maserati – mixing
Vladimir Meller – mastering
Dave Pensado – mixing
Nunzio Signore – guitar
Richard Travali – mixing
D'Wayne Wiggins – guitar, producer
Richard J. Davis – production coordination
James Hoover – engineer, vocal engineer
Walter Afanasieff – bass, programming, drum programming, arranger, producer, keyboards
Tom Coyne – mastering
Poke – producer
Corey Rooney – producer
Jim Caruana – engineer
Dexter Simmons – mixing
Poke & Tone – producer
Brian Springer – engineer, vocal engineer
Flip Osman – assistant engineer, assistant
Jill Topol – stylist
Destiny's Child – main performer
Nick Thomas – mixing
Dan Workman – guitar, mixing, vocal engineer, engineer
Damon Elliott – producer, engineer
Troy Gonzalez – engineer
Anthony Dent – producer, engineer
Rob Fusari – producer
Beyoncé Knowles – vocals, songwriter, producer, vocal arrangement
Kelly Rowland – vocals, songwriter
Michelle Williams – vocals, songwriter
Farrah Franklin – vocals (international version)
Michael McCoy – assistant engineer
Wassim Zreik – assistant
Mathew Knowles – producer, executive producer
Tina Knowles – hair stylist, stylist
Orlando Calzada – engineer
Michael Conrader – engineer
Dave Way – mixing
Marla Weinhoff – prop stylist
Greg Bieck – keyboards, digital programming, drum programming, engineer, programming
Pete Krawiec – assistant engineer
Ken Huffnagle – engineer
Ramon Morales – engineer
Falonte Moore – producer
Errol McCalla – programming, producer
Bill Lee – producer
Woody Pornpitaksuk – author
Eric Seats – multi instruments
Robert Conley – programming
Terry T. – engineer
Thom Cadley – mixing
David Donaldson – keyboards, vocal engineer
Calvin Gaines – producer
David Gleeson – engineer