Stop Crying Your Heart Out at 23: Facts about the Oasis single

17 June 2025, 17:17 | Updated: 17 June 2025, 18:19

We celebrate the stirring 2002 Oasis anthem by looking at its trivia.

This week celebrates 23 years since the release of Oasis single Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

The Heathen Chemistry track may have come along later in the band's career, but it's still up there among some of their most-loved singles.

So how much do you know about the band's noughties-era uplifting ballad? Let's take a look below...

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Facts about Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out

1. Stop Crying Your Heart Out is penned solely by Noel but the band do get producing credits

   Not unlike many of the Britpop band's tracks, the 2002 single is penned by Noel Gallagher and credits him as the sole songwriter. However, it gives "Oasis," (who at the time consisted of frontman Liam, guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Alan White) - the producers credit.

2. It hit the airways in the US before the UK

   For some reason it was serviced to US radio stations in May, weeks before its UK release. Perhaps it was an attempt to break the US one more time.

3. It came second (in more ways than one)

   Not only was Stop Crying Your Heart Out the second single to be released from Heathen Chemistry (following The Hindu Times), but it also peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart.

   And it doesn't stop there... The song was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 12th July 2002... Though it has since been certified double platinum selling over 1,200,000 copies! Not too bad for a single that didn't top the charts, eh?

4. Its video is directed by Andrew "W.I.Z" Whiston

   

   Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out (Official Video)

   The acclaimed English director is also responsible for the likes of Kasabian's Bless this Acid House, Kings of Leon's Supersoaker, Arctic Monkeys' The View From The Afternoon and Massive Attack's Inertia Creeps. He also directed the video for The Hindu Times from the same album and later worked with Oasis on their 2009 video for Falling Down.

5. The woman in the video is Michelle Roman

   Not much is known about the protagonist in the video, but according to IMDb, she is credited as Michelle Roman.

   In the promo

6. Leona Lewis covered the track for The X Factor finale

   

   Leona Lewis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out - X Factor Final - 13th Dec 2009

   If you weren't a big fan of The X Factor or the singer, you might not know she covered the song in the final of the celebrity singing competition's third series. She of course went on to win it outright and the song also featured on her second studio album Echo (2009). That's not the only history Leona's had with covering indie artists and guitar bands, either. She also famously covered Snow Patrol's Run for her debut album Spirit in 2017.

7. The ending of the video was censored for this reason...

   The video ends with the woman lighting a match and staring at it and in the uncensored version it becomes clear that she sets herself alight after dousing herself in petrol.

8. The song features on The Butterfly Effect

   

   The Butterfly Effect Ending - Stop Crying Your Heart Out Oasis

   The Oasis song provided the ending to the 2004 sci-fi film starring Ashton Kutcher.

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