Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
| Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know | |
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| Britney Spears | |
| publication | January 17, 2001 |
| length | 3:50 min. |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Robert Lange , Shania Twain , Keith Scott |
| album | Oops! ... I did it again |
Do not Let Me Be the Last to Know (English for "Just let me do not know as Last") is a song by American pop - singer Britney Spears . The song was created by Robert Lange , Canadian pop singer Shania Twain and Keith Scott for their second studio album Oops! … I Did It Again from 2000 written and produced. The song was released on January 17, 2001 as the fourth and final single from Oops! … I Did It Again released by Jive Records .
background
Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know was written and produced by Robert Lange, his then-wife Shania Twain, and Keith Scott. Spears recorded the vocals for the song between November and December 1999 in Lange's and Twain's castles in Switzerland . At a live concert in Hawaii , Spears named the song as one of her favorites from Oops! ... I did it again . The song was released on January 17, 2001 as the last single from the album. It was the first of Spears' singles to make it into the top 10 of the German and British music charts .
reception
The pop ballad, written in E major, usually received good reviews, but it was found to be somewhat similar to David Bowie's and Iggy Pop's single China Girl .
Charts
The song had only moderate success and only reached the top 10 in Austria and Switzerland . Top 20 placements were achieved in other European countries, including Germany .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
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12 (9 weeks) | 9 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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7th (14 weeks) | 14th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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9 (18 weeks) | 18th |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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12 (14 weeks) | 14th |
Web links
- Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know at Discogs
- Official music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information about the song at ASCAP
- ↑ All publications with date ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at britney.com
- ↑ Britney Spears at hitparade.ch
- ↑ Oops! ... I Did It Again - NME Review. In: NME . IPC Media, May 29, 2000, accessed May 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Stephanie McGrath: Album Review: Oops! ... I did it again. (No longer available online.) Jam, 2000, archived from the original on June 29, 2011 ; Retrieved December 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
