Stronger with Each Tear

Stronger with Each Tear
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 18, 2009 (2009-12-18)
Length48:19
Label
Producer
Mary J. Blige chronology
Growing Pains
(2007)
Stronger with Each Tear
(2009)
My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)
(2011)
Alternative covers
International artwork
Singles from Stronger with Each Tear
  1. "The One"
    Released: July 21, 2009
  2. "Stronger"
    Released: August 18, 2009
  3. "I Am"
    Released: December 8, 2009
  4. "Each Tear"
    Released: February 26, 2010
  5. "We Got Hood Love"
    Released: March 30, 2010

Stronger with Each Tear is the ninth studio album from American R&B/soul singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, released in the US on December 21, 2009, under Blige's imprint Matriarch Records. Internationally, it was released December 18, 2009, in Australia and Germany, and on various dates between December 2009 and May 2010 in other territories.

Stronger with Each Tear is an R&B album with contemporary production. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 332,000 copies, and earned Blige a record ninth number one debut on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Stronger with Each Tear received generally positive reviews from critics, winning the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album.