It was a commercial success reaching the top of the charts in Canada, Finland and Italy, number two in the United Kingdom and top-ten in many markets.
"Beautiful Stranger" also earned Madonna her fifth Grammy Award, winning the trophy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
It won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film in 1999.
It was released on May 29, 1999, by Maverick and Warner Bros. Records as a single from the soundtrack of the film, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Madonna co-wrote and co-produced the song with William Orbit, and it was inspired by her then relationship with British writer Andy Bird.