"4 Minutes" is a collaboration between Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. It was released as the lead single from the album ''Hard Candy'' on March 17, 2008.
Written by Madonna, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nathaniel Hills, the song is an uptempo dance song with an urban, hip hop style, which also incorporates Timbaland's bhangra beats with bass effect of a marching band, a clanging beat and instrumentation from a brass that is played in a high riff. Other musical instruments used are fog horns and cow bells. The song is written in the key of G minor and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 115 beats per minute. Madonna and Timberlake's vocal range spans two octaves, from F3 to Bb5. The song has a basic sequence of D–G–C–F–B♭–D as its chord progression. Regarding the line "Sometimes I feel what I need is a you intervention", Madonna explained, "Yeah, meaning, sometimes I think you need to save me".
In an interview with MTV, Madonna explained how the song came about: ''Well I don't think it's important to take it too literally. I think the song more than anything is about having a sense of urgency; about how we are you know, living on borrowed time essentially and people are becoming much more aware of the environment and how we're destroying the planet. We can't just keep distracting ourselves we do have to educate ourselves and wake up and do something about it. You know at the same time we don't want to be boring and serious and not have fun so it's kind of like well if we're going to save the planet can we have a good time while we are doing it?''.
In the United States, "4 Minutes" debuted at number sixty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the issue dated April 5, 2008, based solely on airplay. Within a week, the song had jumped sixty-five places, reaching number three on the chart. This leap was spurred by first-week digital sales of 217,000, enabling the song to enter Billboard's Digital chart at number two, behind Mariah Carey's single "Touch My Body". The song became Madonna's first top-ten single since "Hung Up" (2005), and was her thirty-seventh Hot 100 top-ten hit, breaking the record previously held by Elvis Presley. "4 Minutes" was also her highest-charting single on the Hot 100 since "Music" reached the top of the chart in 2000. It was also a success on Billboard's dance charts, topping both the Hot Dance Club Play and the Hot Dance Airplay charts. Four months after its release, "4 Minutes" was certified double platinum by the RIAA for sales of two million paid digital downloads. As of present, it has sold 2,476,000 digital downloads in the United States.
"4 Minutes" was also a success in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The song became Madonna's sixtieth top-ten single in the UK. It rose to the top of the chart on April 20, 2008, thus giving Madonna her thirteenth UK number-one single. She became the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in the British chart history; Kylie Minogue has the second most, with seven.
"4 Minutes" was number one on Billboard's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles for four weeks. It topped the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland, and reached number two in Austria, France and Sweden.
Written by Madonna, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nathaniel Hills, the song is an uptempo dance song with an urban, hip hop style, which also incorporates Timbaland's bhangra beats with bass effect of a marching band, a clanging beat and instrumentation from a brass that is played in a high riff. Other musical instruments used are fog horns and cow bells. The song is written in the key of G minor and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 115 beats per minute. Madonna and Timberlake's vocal range spans two octaves, from F3 to Bb5. The song has a basic sequence of D–G–C–F–B♭–D as its chord progression. Regarding the line "Sometimes I feel what I need is a you intervention", Madonna explained, "Yeah, meaning, sometimes I think you need to save me".
In an interview with MTV, Madonna explained how the song came about: ''Well I don't think it's important to take it too literally. I think the song more than anything is about having a sense of urgency; about how we are you know, living on borrowed time essentially and people are becoming much more aware of the environment and how we're destroying the planet. We can't just keep distracting ourselves we do have to educate ourselves and wake up and do something about it. You know at the same time we don't want to be boring and serious and not have fun so it's kind of like well if we're going to save the planet can we have a good time while we are doing it?''.
In the United States, "4 Minutes" debuted at number sixty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the issue dated April 5, 2008, based solely on airplay. Within a week, the song had jumped sixty-five places, reaching number three on the chart. This leap was spurred by first-week digital sales of 217,000, enabling the song to enter Billboard's Digital chart at number two, behind Mariah Carey's single "Touch My Body". The song became Madonna's first top-ten single since "Hung Up" (2005), and was her thirty-seventh Hot 100 top-ten hit, breaking the record previously held by Elvis Presley. "4 Minutes" was also her highest-charting single on the Hot 100 since "Music" reached the top of the chart in 2000. It was also a success on Billboard's dance charts, topping both the Hot Dance Club Play and the Hot Dance Airplay charts. Four months after its release, "4 Minutes" was certified double platinum by the RIAA for sales of two million paid digital downloads. As of present, it has sold 2,476,000 digital downloads in the United States.
"4 Minutes" was also a success in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The song became Madonna's sixtieth top-ten single in the UK. It rose to the top of the chart on April 20, 2008, thus giving Madonna her thirteenth UK number-one single. She became the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in the British chart history; Kylie Minogue has the second most, with seven.
"4 Minutes" was number one on Billboard's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles for four weeks. It topped the charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland, and reached number two in Austria, France and Sweden.
The music video was directed by French duo Jonas & François. About the idea of a black screen devouring everything, Madonna said: ''None of us did understand the concept of the black screen. It was just, you know, it's very conceptual. We basically gave the song to the two French directors and they came up with the only concept that I thought was interesting, with this black sort of amorphous graphic line slowly eating up the world. I just liked that as a concept''. The video was nominated for an award at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in the "Best Dancing in a Video" category but lost to the Pussycat Dolls single "When I Grow Up".
The song was performed during the promotional tour for ''Hard Candy'' and ''Sticky & Sweet Tour''. Justin Timberlake made an appearance alongside Madonna, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, to perform the song. On the ''Sticky & Sweet Tour'', "4 Minutes" was performed as the opening song of the "Futuristic rave with Japanese influence" section. Timberlake joined Madonna in person, for the show at Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium on November 6, 2008, the same show in which Britney Spears appeared alongside Madonna to perform "Human Nature". Timbaland joined Madonna during the performance at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
The song was performed during the promotional tour for ''Hard Candy'' and ''Sticky & Sweet Tour''. Justin Timberlake made an appearance alongside Madonna, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, to perform the song. On the ''Sticky & Sweet Tour'', "4 Minutes" was performed as the opening song of the "Futuristic rave with Japanese influence" section. Timberlake joined Madonna in person, for the show at Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium on November 6, 2008, the same show in which Britney Spears appeared alongside Madonna to perform "Human Nature". Timbaland joined Madonna during the performance at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
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