Stronger with Each Tear

Stronger with Each Tear
Studio album by Mary J. Blige
Released	December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18) (see release history)
Recorded	2008–2009
Genre	R&B hip hop soul
Length	48:19
Label	Matriarch Geffen
Producer	Mary J. Blige (Executive) Darkchild Polow da Don Bryan-Michael Cox Raphael Saadiq Stargate Ryan Leslie Supa Dups Akon The Runners Stereotypes Ne-Yo Tricky Stewart The-Dream D'Mile Ron Fair
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
"The One" Released: July 21, 2009 "Stronger" Released: August 18, 2009 "I Am" Released: December 8, 2009 "Each Tear" Released: February 26, 2010 "We Got Hood Love" Released: March 30, 2010

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Christgau's Consumer Guide
Entertainment Weekly	B
The Irish Times
Los Angeles Times
Rolling Stone
Spin	6/10
The Times
USA Today

Stronger with Each Tear (stylized as STRONGER withEach Tear) is the ninth studio album from American R&B and soul singer Mary J. Blige. The album was released in the US on December 21, 2009, under Blige's own imprint, Matriarch Records.

Internationally it was released December 18, 2009, in Australia and Germany, December 21 in France, December 23 in Japan, and on February 2, 2010, in Korea with further international releases (in some cases re-releases) in March, April and May 2010. With this album, Blige achieved a record of nine albums to have debuted at the top of the US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Blige started working on her ninth album while she toured with Robin Thicke in 2008. In an interview with Rap-Up magazine she said:

The album was initially titled Stronger after the song, "Stronger" which Blige recorded and released as the lead single from the soundtrack Music Inspired by More Than a Game from the LeBron James' documentary More Than a Game. However Rap-Up later revealed that the album had been re-titled Stronger with Each Tear.

The album has production and writing credits from Ryan Leslie, Darkchild and Johntá Austin. Also included are several guests like the Canadian rapper Drake who appears on the first single "The One", rapper T.I. who appears on "Good Love" which was initially planned as the second single and Trey Songz himself revealed that he had recorded a duet called "Hood Love" with Blige for the album. The song was previously recorded by Austin and Blige for Austin's first solo album that was never released. The song has since been reworked and re-titled "We Got Hood Love". Following the album's release in the US, the song charted at 82 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart due to strong digital downloads. The album track "I Feel Good" entered the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 83 on the issue dated February 6, 2010, and on the issue dated March 6, 2010, it reached a peak of number 68. whilst "Good Love" featuring T.I. entered the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 59 and was on the charts for around eleven weeks with a peak of 58.