Independent Women Part I

Written by Beyonce, Samuel Barnes, Cory Rooney, and Jean-Claude Olivier, the song served as the lead single for the Charlie's Angels (2000) film soundtrack and was released on September 12, 2000. It spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it the longest-running number-one single of 2000 and the group's best-performing single on the chart. In the United Kingdom, it became the 2000 Christmas number one. Joseph Kahn directed the music video, which features the group performing various action scenes in a hangar.