The best song ever known to mankind flopped, not too horribly, but in the end a flop. Why?

Considering that she promoted No One like there was no tomorrow back then, and TSWABH wasn't, and the fact that it wasn't even sent for adds on pop radios, i'd say it did pretty well.

I just started liking the song like last month. But anywho, it's a Pop world now obviously

It wasn't properly promoted.

Honestly i have NO ****ing idea
And the sad part is i think it got the chart it did because of performances or something, which made it shoot up iTunes for a week and then fall, so most people who didnt see that performance dont really even know the song

OMG choice three killed me!
But really, she didn't promote it.

Yeah also there was a lot of hype over ESOM which overshadowed TSWABH. Oh well I hope PIIALS can put her back on the charts!

It should have been a hit.

But it wasn't promoted as much as it should be.
It also should had adds for Pop radios.

I'm not really a big fan of this song, but I think Alicia didn't promote this well enough.

Because America didn't like it lol I love "Unthinkable"

Because Americans were last in line when god handed out music tastes.

She promoted it and performed it a lot more than "Doesn't Mean Anything".

Pepsi, Dancing With The Stars and AMAs. The lack of taste is what was really going on here.

None of the above.

She should have released "Try Sleeping...." as the first single instead of "Doesn't Mean Anything" and things might have worked differently.

Still, the song deserved to be a hit anyway.

DEAD at Americans daring to choose #3.

Honestly, it wasn't promoted.

Exactly, by the time TSWABH was out then all the hype for new alicia had died with DMA

Doesn't Mean Anything messed everything up.

Mainly choices one and two. But I blame dance songs.

It wasn't promoted properly tht's why but the song is really good

Because Americans were last in line when god handed out music tastes.

- Why the obsessive amount of polls for this song?

...because TSWABH should have been the FIRST single.