Crossroads (Music from the Major Motion Picture)
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	February 5, 2002
Genre	Pop
Length	23:42
Label	Zomba Jive
Producer	Rodney Jerkins The Neptunes Fred Maher Matthew Sweet Dennis Herring Jaret Reddick Max Martin Rami Yacoub

Crossroads (Music from the Major Motion Picture) is the soundtrack to the 2002 film Crossroads starring Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, Kim Cattrall, and Dan Aykroyd, directed by Tamra Davis from a screenplay written by Shonda Rhimes.^[1] The soundtrack was released by Zomba Music and Jive Records on February 5, 2002 and featured six songs: two of the tracks—the karaoke of Spears' cover of the Arrows' 1975 single "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and a remix of "Overprotected"—were performed by Spears herself. The album featured tracks by Mystikal, Matthew Sweet, Jars of Clay and Bowling for Soup.^[2]

Spears' third studio album Britney (2001) was also promoted as the soundtrack for the film with three of them—"I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Overprotected", and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman"—were also featured in the film;^[3] the latter was released as the film's theme song in January 7, 2002. All those tracks were not included along with the first album.^[4]

Track listing

Commercial performance

The track "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" which was the second single of Britney and the film's theme song opened to critical acclaim and acheived moderate commercial success. Although failing to reach Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number two on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100,^[5] number 21 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart,^[6] debuted in its peak position of number two in the United Kingdom,^[7] and peaked within the top ten in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden.^[8] The song was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association for selling over 30,000 physical units of the single.^[8] Despite critical acclaim, the song won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song and nominated at the same category at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, owing to the film's negative response.^[9][10] The song "Overprotected" also received nomination for the former category.^[11]

Charts

Expanded edition

Crossroads: Special Edition is the expanded version of the soundtrack released by RCA Records on October 20, 2023, to accompany the film's theatrical re-release five days later.^[14][15] The release also accompanied Spears' three singles: "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Overprotected", and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman", as well as tracks from Shania Twain, A Flock of Seagulls, The Cult, Cypress Hill, Nikka Costa, Marvin Gaye and Sheryl Crow amongst others.^[16][17] The album further featured two remixes of Spears' tracks by Frank Walker and Snakehips.^[18]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes:^[2]

• Performers – Britney Spears, Mystikal, Matthew Sweet, Jars of Clay, Bowling for Soup
• Songwriters – Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, Michael Tyler, Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Matthew Sweet, Jars of Clay, Jaret Reddick, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub
• Producers – Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Fred Maher, Matthew Sweet, Dennis Herring, Jaret Reddick, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub
• Remixer – JS16
• Audio mastering – Tom Coyne

See also

• Britney (2001), Spears' third album with three of the songs featured in the film and also used as a promotional material for the film

References

Further reading

• Spears, Britney; Culotta, Felicia (2002). Britney Spears' Crossroads Diary. Scholastic, Inc. ISBN 978-0-4393-9745-2.