Stronger (Kanye West song)

"Stronger"
"Stronger"
Single by Kanye West featuring Daft Punk
from Graduation"
Released	June 26, 2007
Recorded	2006-2007
Studio	Ape Sounds (Tokyo); Sony Music (NYC); The Record Plant (Hollywood);
Genre	Hip hop; electronica; dance;
Length	5:15 (album version); 4:08 (radio edit); 4:27 (video version);
Label	GOOD Music; Island Def Jam; Roc-A-Fella;
Songwriter(s)	Kanye West; Mike Dean; Thomas Bangalter; Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo; Edwin Birdsong;
Producer(s)	Kanye West (additional drum programming by Timbaland); Mike Dean (extended outro co-produced by Mike Dean); Daft Punk; Edwin Birdsong;
Kanye West singles chronology
	"Stronger" at YouTube

"Stronger" is a 2007 song by rapper Kanye West. It won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. The song samples French electronic music duo Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Chart positions

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Charts	2 ^[1]
Brazilian Hot 100	10 ^[2]
Canadian Hot 100	1 ^[1]
Czech IFPI Chart	27 ^[3]
Danish Singles Chart	7
Euro 200 (EU)	7 ^[4]
German Singles Chart	17 ^[1]
Irish Singles Chart	2 ^[1]
Norway Top 20	3 ^[1]
Polish National top 50	16 ^[5]
Portugal Singles Chart	30 ^[1]
Swedish Top 60	19 ^[1]
Turkish Singles Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Top 40	1 ^[1]
UK Singles Chart	1 ^[1]
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1 ^[1]
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	30 ^[6]
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks	3 ^[7]
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	1
United World Chart	1 ^[1]

The song's sample of Daft Punk's material was not the first time a rap act had sampled them, after Busta Rhymes had done so on his 2005 single "Touch It". West listened to the single on a tour bus in 2006, which was how he first discovered the duo.
Sony Music Studios in New York City, one of the locations for the song's recording sessions.
The lyrics of the song's refrain offer a mantra that paraphrases Friedrich Nietzsche's famous quote: "What does not kill him, makes him stronger."
Several reviewers highlighted West's move towards a newer sound with the song, while reception of his rapping was more mixed.
Much of the song's music video was shot in Tokyo, Japan, including scenes of the city streets.
The song took the top spot of the US Billboard Hot 100 from "Crank That (Soulja Boy)", although the single knocked it off this position after one week.
West performing "Stronger" as his closing number at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee during the Glow in the Dark Tour.
Allison Williams, acting as the character Marnie, performs the song as a slower and stripped down love ballad in the 2013 TV series Girls, after she had rapped it during her rehearsals.
John Tory used the song to soundtrack a parody video about West in 2015, set on the Toronto subway.