From the Bottom of My Broken Heart
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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 "".
Music video
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 became her fourth to retire on MTV's TRL.
Chart performance
"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" was moderately 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 position |
|---|---|
| ARC Weekly Top 40 | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay | 53 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales | 1 (1 week) |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks | 24 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40 | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 | 26 |
| TRL Top 10 Countdown | 1 (14 Days) |
| Mexican Top 100 | 10 |
| Indonesia Chart | 3 |
| Australian ARIA Top 50 | 37 |
| Philippine Top 20 | 1 |
| World Chart Show | 19 |
| ARC Weekly Top 40 chart trajectory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chart position | 33 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 31 | |||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart trajectory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Chart position | 76 | 59 | 52 | 52 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 24 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 45 | 54 | 64 | 64 | 81 | 97 | 92 | 86 | 90 | ||||||||||
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Week | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | 47 | 37 | 39 | 42 | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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