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"4 Minutes" is the first single by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her eleventh studio album Hard Candy and was released on March 17, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records. It features American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake and Timbaland who also co-wrote and produced the song.

"4 Minutes" became Madonna's first Top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 since "Hung Up" in 2005 and her highest-charting U.S. single since "Music". With the song Madonna scored her 37th Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hit, making her the artist with the most Top 10 hits in the history of the chart.

The single has also broken records in the UK, where it became Madonna's 61st Top 10 hit and 13th number one single, more than any other female solo artist.

song information...

The song is sometimes referred to as "4 Minutes to Save the World", including by Madonna herself.[2] The song received its first airing when co-producer Timbaland played part of the song at a concert on December 16, 2007 in Philadelphia.[3] After brief appearances on YouTube and Perez Hilton, Warner Bros. quickly got the clips removed for copyright infringement.[4] Additionally, part of the song was played on a French radio station on February 29, 2008, later leaking online as a radio rip from the broadcast.[5]

The single officially debuted on radio on March 17, 2008, and was released digitally in the UK on the same day. It was released digitally worldwide (except USA) on March 18, 2008 and in the US on March 25, 2008.[citation needed] The song was also used for a television advertisement for Sunsilk that began to air on March 17.[6]

The photography used on the cover is by Madonna's manager Guy Oseary.

reception...

Rolling Stone described the song as having "a marching band aesthetic as blasting brass play a scale-like riff," and called the song "a loud, busy, energetic track."[3] Billboard reviewer and editor Chuck Taylor said that with the song Madonna "is poised to score her first top 10 hit since 2005's 'Hung Up.' ... There's an awful lot going on in the busy dance track ... but the trade-off chorus between Madge and Justin ... is hooky enough unto itself to sell the song."[7] BBC Music described "4 Minutes" as sounding "so futuristic it could realistically have been beamed in from the end of the world."[8] "4 Minutes" was called one of Hard Candy's saviors by The Independent, who noted that "the Mardi Gras marching-band bumping rumbustiously along" is one of the album's "most ambitious offerings."[9] Heidi Kotanski of Common Sense Media wrote, "While the afrobeat horn breaks drive the energy of the single, Madonna takes back stage to Timberlake's best impersonation of Michael Jackson and the overpowering erratic electronic sounds signature of Timbaland's production."[10]

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