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2001 single by Destiny's Child

"Survivor" is a song recorded by American group Destiny's Child for their third studio album of the same title (2001). It was written and composed by group member Beyoncé, Anthony Dent, and Mathew Knowles. "Survivor" was inspired by a joke that a radio station had made about the fact that three members had already left the group, comparing the band to the reality game show Survivor. Beyoncé was inspired to take the negative comment and turn it into a positive by writing a song out of it. Additionally, BET named it the tenth best song of the 2000s.

"Survivor" was written by Anthony Dent, Destiny's Child band member Beyoncé Knowles and her father Mathew, while production was helmed by Dent and Beyoncé. when original members LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett split from Knowles and Kelly Rowland, and were replaced by Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin. Soon afterwards Franklin was also dismissed from the group, leading to more well publicized personnel changes. According to Knowles, the group was publicly compared to the reality series Survivor, which inspired her to "write us out of all that negativity." Dent initially envisioned his instrumental track to be recorded by rapper Lil' Kim, before Beyoncé used it to pen the lyrics, melody and vocal arrangement for "Survivor." Much of the song was written during a flight to the next city while Destiny's Child was opening for singer Christina Aguilera during her Christina Aguilera in Concert tour.

The song is performed in the key of G minor, with a tempo of 81 beats per minute in common time. In the harmonic minor scale, it follows a chord progression of Gm–Cm–D, and the group's vocals span an octave and a half, from G3 to C5.

Billboard critic Chuck Taylor noted that "Survivor" was "careful not to stray from the well established formula that has made Destiny's Child the pop act du jour – a skittish stop and start beat, the puissant vocals of co songwriter/producer Beyoncé Knowles, and a lyric about life in the victory lane when mankind does you wrong." In 2017 Billboard also named the song #40 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine found that "Survivor" was "painfully labored, stuttering over a halting melody that Beyoncé Knowles breathlessly pushes to absolutely nowhere, working it so hard that it's difficult to listen."

"Survivor" debuted at number 43 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it the group's second highest debuting single to date, behind "Lose My Breath" at number 30. It quickly ascended through the chart, reaching its peak of number two within a month, remaining at the position for seven consecutive weeks. The song was not released on physical formats until after its airplay had peaked; it topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music Maxi Singles Sales chart for eight weeks. It also peaked at number five on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. The single stayed atop the Hot 100 Airplay chart for five consecutive weeks and peaked at number three on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. Its DVD edition peaked at number nine on the US Top Music Videos chart. It also topped the charts in Ireland and the Netherlands, while peaking at number two in Canada and number three in New Zealand.

[[Image:Point Dume, Malibu, United States (Unsplash). jpg|thumb|upright|Parts of the music video for "Survivor" were filmed at Point Dume. The clip is styled in the sense of three survivors living on an uninhabited island. It also shows a brief prelude to how the trio got shipwrecked. Following their shipwreck, they uncover an island where they change clothes and walk into a waterfall leading to a deserted temple where it transforms into a dance break. It storms on through the dance bridge and the prelude of the shipwreck. After this, a helicopter starts buzzing leading to where the members are racing out of the island for their escape. The final video premiered on MTV's making of docu series Making the Video on March 6, 2001. The "Survivor" music video was later released on DVD with a live performance of "Independent Women Part I" at the 2001 Brit Awards on May 15, 2001. The release was a standard full frame transfer that preserved the original aspect ratio of the video, with an English soundtrack rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo.

Former group members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson filed a lawsuit against Knowles, Rowland, and former manager Mathew Knowles; they claimed some of the lyrics in "Survivor", such as "You thought I wouldn't sell without you/sold nine million", violated a previous agreement that prevented either party from insulting the other.