Madonna: "4 Minutes" Music Video Debuts On April 7th!
"4 Minutes" Video Premiere Date
DrownedMadonna.com has just heard that ''4 Minutes'' video premiere in Canada is tentatively scheduled to premiere on Canada’s MUCHMUSIC’S - Much on Demand show on APRIL 7TH between 5pm-6pm EST.
Hopefully it premieres earlier in the U.S!
Official "Hard Candy" Teaser!
- Courtesy of Warner Music Ireland
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LISTEN TO official Junkie XL Remixes of "4 Minutes":
MADONNA SETS RADIO RECORD IN CANADA
“4 Minutes” is the fastest single to hit #1 in Canadian radio history
Broadcast Data Services (BDS), the company that monitors airplay in North America has confirmed that “4 Minutes,” the first single from Madonna’s forthcoming album Hard Candy, has debuted at #1 on the Canadian CHR Audience chart. This marks the first time any single has entered at the top of either CHR chart in BDS history. “4 Minutes” was co-written by Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Timberlake also co-produced the track with Timbaland and performs vocals with Madonna.
The song also entered the CHR spins chart at #5, only the second song ever to debut in the Top 10 on that chart. “4 Minutes” also entered the All Format Audience chart at #2, the highest debut in the chart’s history.
Hard Candy will be released in North America on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The album features Justin Timberlake on multiple tracks and production by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Nate “Danja” Hills.
“4 Minutes” is currently the #1 selling single on iTunes while Hard Candy has the distinction of being the current best selling album on iTunes based strictly on pre-orders.
"4 Minutes" Chart Update
- "4 Minutes" #2 on U.S. iTunes
- "4 Minutes #1 on French iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #1 on Australian iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #1 on Norway iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #1 on Sweden iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #1 on Netherlands iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #1 on Finland iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #2 on Denmark iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #5 on UK iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #5 on Ireland iTunes.
- "4 Minutes #8 on New Zealand iTunes.
- "4 Minutes" #23 on Airplay
- "4 Minutes" debuts at #68 on Billboard Hot 100.
- "Hard Candy" #3 in Top Albums on iTunes.
- #1 on Canadian iTunes [thanks to Cesar for the caps]
MONSTER!
"4 Minutes"debuts at #23 on CHR/Top 40
From Radio and Records:
Also notable is the return of Madonna, who clocks in at No. 23 on CHR/Top 40 with “4 Minutes” (Warner Bros.), her record-tying 26th chart hit (and first in two years). The preview single from “Hard Candy,” due April 29, matches the format mark for most charted titles set by Mariah Carey just five weeks ago with “Touch My Body” (IDJMG). “4 Minutes,” featuring Justin Timberlake, who inducted Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this month, also takes Most Increased Plays (up 2,147, the format’s best gain in more than three years) and is the list’s highest arrival since Christina Aguilera’s "Ain’t No Other Man" roared in at No. 21 in June 2006.
"Hard Candy" is a smash album already!
While we are more than a month away from the release of the album, it's already NUMBER 2 on Amazon's Best Sellers - based on pre-orders!
EVERYBODY WANTS A PIECE OF CANDY!
EXTRA INFO
- The video was rumored to premiere on March 29th, however; Warner Music Canada says it's is still TBC, tentatively April 7th, AND Denmark's no.1 radio station The Voice announced today that they will play the ''4 Minutes'' video anytime now on Voice TV, as they will get it before other media. STAY TUNED![/QUOTE]
The title is a juxtaposition of tough and sweetness ... kind of like I m gonna kick your ass but it s going to make you feel good.
- Madonna
1. Candy Shop
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Candy Shop – with Madonna rather unsettlingly suggesting to listeners that she has “all sorts of Candy” on offer
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The Pharrell-produced “Candy Store” opens with a big beat and Madonna’s invitation to “Come on in to my store, I got candy galore.” The track is pretty bare on the verses, but there’s a flash of brassy soul on the chorus when harmonies join Madonna singing, “I’ll be your one stop (one stop) candy shop.” The track is punctuated with throbbing breaks filled with hypnotic synths, and Pharrell jumps on the mike for a brief rhyme.
2. 4 Minutes (ft. Justin Timberlake)
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4 Minutes - Very high energy, back and forth between Madonna and Justin Timberlake the whole song. Timbaland speaks throughout, but does not rap nor sing on the track. The song ends with a breakdown and Timbaland's voice. The horn/trumpet sound we hear in the jingle ball clip lasts throughout the entire song. The song ends in kind of a breakdown. Madonna's final words are "tick tock tick tock tick tock" then the beat changes and the horns stop as it goes into a breakdown, with a few more "tick tocks" and Timbaland saying, ''uh , yeah... we only got four minutes'', beats stop, now silence... "to save the world" add Timbaland.
3. Give It 2 Me
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Give It To Me, which features Pharrell Williams, is a typical slice of Madonna dancefloor pop, its sashaying groove given a smart upgrade by The Neptunes production team. Two other Pharrell contributions
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Funky, dancey track, this time by Pharrell Williams, who is heard on the track.
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The track that sounds most like a more urban, edgy continuation of Confessions is the excellent “Give It to Me,” which bumps along to a thick synth tone Danja employed on Britney Spears’ Blackout. It’s an aggressive, clubby track with a raw, house-y beat that’s ripe for remixing, and Madonna sings, “When the lights go down and there’s no one left I can go on and on.” It ends after a fast, killer breakdown where she chants “Get stupid” over a xylophone chime as the beat builds into a frenzy and she proclaims, “Give it to me / No one’s gonna stop me now.”
4. Heartbeat
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The dance floor theme returns again on “Heartbeat,” which boasts a thumping hip-hop beat with a sandpaper shuffle and twinkling Eighties-reminiscent synths. Madonna opens up her voice more, singing, “Can’t you see when I dance I feel free / Which makes me feel like the only one the light shines on.” The song features a brief rap breakdown that recalls Nelly Furtado’s chanty “Promiscuous” (”See my booty get down,” Madonna speak-sings), but returns to its clubby roots in the end.
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Has an 80's feel, totally catchy. Think "Future Lovers" only better! The chorus reflects one of the true Madonna/Pop moments on the album.
5. Miles Away
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MILES AWAY
L: Absolutely genius. Got to be huge. It’s got the great hand-clapping bit in the middle but it’s not a stomper.
M: Sort of delicate... picks you up and wafts you away on a pillow of windswept tears. (laughter) ’Were always at our best when we’re miles away’.
L: So far away...
M: So far away...
L: Let’s cry now. You would not be able to not clap along to this in a concert. Unexpectedly warming…
M: …which is a very Madonna thing to do. It sounds resigned. It makes you want to have a boyfriend so you can reject him so you can sing this song. (Cackle).
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The most lyrical of the five songs is “Miles Away,” a wistful tune about a long-distance relationship with a melody that resembles Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds, an album Danja says Madonna admired. “We would come up with a track and him and Madonna would come and do lyrics and melody together,” Danja explains. The song opens with a quickly strummed acoustic guitar, then a stuttering beat drops in and the track slowly swells until it’s filled with atmospheric synths. “You always seem to have the biggest heart when we’re 6,000 miles apart,” Madonna sings grandly, lamenting, “I guess we’re at our best when we’re miles away.” The song has a more airy aesthetic compared to the heavy beats on other tracks, which reflects its more emotional lyrics.
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Melodic, haunting, while still catering to the target audience of this album. One of the best songs.
6. She s Not Me
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SHE’S NOT ME
L: J’adore this! I’m better than the competition. It’s so drag.
M: Is this the campest thing she’s ever done? ’She’s started dressing like me, talking like me and freakin’ me out. She started reading my books and stealing my looks and lingerie, what’s that about?’.
L: (Laughs) I want to dance to this now.
M: It reminds me of Thief of Hearts.
L: Disco funk. And there’s football whistles.
M: And double hand claps.
L: Any song where she repeats a word three times - like ’she was stealing, stealing, stealing’ gets me.
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Hip-Hop, cool, fresh, sexy and EDGY. Madonna sings to a partner about another girl and how this girl just can't measure up to Madonna. She tells him, "she can love you in the shower" but "she doesn't have my name".
7. Incredible
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Incredible (”Sex with you is incredible,” heaves our Madge) see similar makeover jobs being done on Madonna staples, the latter more strikingly so on initial listens.
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A sleeper track, this one is subtle at first, but its groovy beats can make it grow into a fan favorite.
8. Beat Goes On (ft. Kanye West)
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Patently, no ‘Madonna goes urban’ project would be complete without the presence of Kanye West, and the shy, retiring one pops up to deliver a self-aggrandising rap (no, really) on Beat Goes On, a maddeningly insistent track likely to follow 4 Minutes onto future Madonna hits compilations.
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Completely different, less melody and more beat driven than the demo that was leaked. As we already revealed on December 4, Kanye West raps rather long verse at the end.
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BEAT GOES ON
L: This is unrecognisable from the leak! It’s one of the highlights. Total 80s disco. Xylophones, full on synths. Sort of thing you’d hear at Horse Meat Disco, an ’everybody get up and dance’ record.
M: Very 80s but not in a modern electro pop way. You think you’re listening to a Shalamar record and then Kanye West comes in.
L: It’s got a Taana Gardner feel to it.
M: It’s the point where she turns on the fun turbo boosters. This is the Candy. It’s too too good...
L: LOVE. IT. Especially Pharrell’s Beep, beeps.
M: It’s gonna be played in every disco in the world for 12 - 200 year olds. Could be an instant classic.
9. Dance 2night
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This is a fun one. Totally old school, Madonna and Justin duet. Simple wood block beat throughout. "Inspirational" Hey You-ish bits in the chorus about not needing to be rich, famous and beautiful to be understood, with dance/club driven verses and bridge.
10. Spanish Lesson
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In this filler Madonna speaks in various languages and keeps with the urban theme.
11. Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
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Previously known to fans as "Even the Devil Wouldn't Recognize You", it's neither a ballad nor a dance song. Could more fittingly be compared to the being the "Isaac" of the album. Fate, angels, stars, disguises and lies make up this cool, dark track that will have you "keep on comin' back for more" as one lyric goes.
12. Voice
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Madonna stays with her recent theme of keeping the more wordy, reflective songs for her last track with this one. Probably the most lyrically deep song on the album, the song poses a range of trippy questions to the listener/subject and it has a bit of a slower tempo while still keeping a hot hip hop beat.
Did iTunes accidentally post this today, because it says the release date is April 4th, this Thursday, so in fact, 4 days from now would be the 3rd, hm...
