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"Music"
Song
B-side"Cyberraga"

"Music" is the first single by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her 8th studio album Music and was released on August 21, 2000 by Maverick Records. It was also released on DVD single, a debut in this format by Madonna. It was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year. Audio file "MusicSample.ogg" not found. The song was also re-released in 2007 as "Music Inferno", the lead promo single from Madonna's 2007 live album "The Confessions Tour".

Song information

On May 27, 2000 an unauthorized copy of the song leaked onto the Internet. In a few days it spread all over the web through forums and Napster. Madonna's spokesperson Liz Rosenberg reacted with the comment that the material was a "work-in-progress which was stolen". After the release of the single, it would become clear that it was in fact the finished version that leaked onto the web, but only the first three and a half minutes of it.

The song shot to the top of the charts very quickly. It went to number one in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other countries. It was Madonna's twelfth number one in the USA. By reaching number one, it made Madonna the second artist after Janet Jackson to achieve number one hits in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s in the USA. Eventually it went platinum, selling over a million copies, proving to be one of her biggest-selling singles.

The song was her first number-one hit in the USA since "Take a Bow" went number-one in 1995. It still stands as her final US #1, with none of her later singles hitting the top spot.

In 2004, Canadian tech-metal band Out of Your Mouth released a cover version, which reached the Top 40 in Canada.

The United World Chart ranked "Music" as the 13th most successful single since 1999 with sales/airplay[1] (3.63/3.63) of 7.414 million points in the main sales areas globally,[2] and as the most successful single of 2000 with the most number of points in a single week.[3]

Music has appeared in all three of Madonna's tours since it was released (Drowned World Tour, Re-Invention Tour, and Confessions Tour). For the first two of the three concerts, Music was placed in the encore; it was the final song of The Drowned World Tour, and the first encore for the Re-Invention Tour. Music opened the last segment of her record-breaking Confessions Tour. With Saturday Night Fever-inspired clothing and surroundings, Music was mixed with the Trammps' Disco Inferno, thus creating the hedonistic Music Inferno.

The opening line of the song ("Hey Mr. DJ, put a record on, I want to dance with my baby") features a male-sounding voice. The voice is actually Madonna's voice, heavily transformed. Madonna performed "Music" at the 2001 Grammy Awards.

Music Video

The music video was shot in April 2000 at A&M Stage and a nightclub in downtown Los Angeles by Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund. It features Madonna in a fur coat with a cowboy hat and a golden medallion, together with friends Niki Haris and Debi Mazar. The girls are escorted in a golden limousine, driven by British comic Sacha Baron Cohen in the guise of his Ali G character. He takes them to a club, where the girls enjoy a female strip act (of which MTV censored parts). In the middle of the song there's an animated part with Madonna as some kind of superwoman, flying through the sky, trashing her old song titles and DJ-ing at a party. Madonna was five-months pregnant with her son Rocco during the filming of the video, which is why an animation section was included.[citation needed] In the middle of the video, Ali G interrupts the song to demonstrate his rap skills in order to persuade Madonna to include him on her next single. An annoyed Madonna asks him to stop and to put her music back on.

The video is a bit of a Hip hop parody, and it borrows ideas from the famous "Windowlicker" music video by electronic music artist Aphex Twin.[citation needed] The video won several awards, including Best Pop Clip Of The Year at the Billboard Video Awards in 2000 and Best Dance Video at the International Dance Music Awards in 2000.

The music video was parodied on MADtv. The parody was called Movies, and featured Mo Collins as Madonna and Aries Spears as Ali G. The video poked fun at Madonna's filmography.

  • Director: Jonas Akerlund
  • Producer: Nicola Doring
  • Director of Photography: Eric Broms
  • Editor: Jonas Akerlund
  • Production Company: HSI Productions

DVD release

Untitled

The video to the single was released on DVD only and contains two versions of the music video: an edited version and a full uncut version. It also includes a weblink to an official Madonna "Music" website, but the site is no longer active. The full uncut version contains additional footage of the strippers as well as the sequence during which Ali G interrupts the song to demonstrate his rap skills.


  • Music (4:26 Version)
  • Music (4:44 Version)

Formats and Tracklistings

U.K. CD1 W537CD1 9362 44896 2

  1. Music (Album Version) - 3:44
  2. Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit) - 4:15
  3. Music (Calderone Anthem Mix) - 11:55

U.K. CD 2 W537CD2 9362 44897 2

  1. Music (Album Version) - 3:44
  2. Music (Groove Armada BA 12 Mix) - 5:30
  3. Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Remix U.S. Edit) - 4:29

Official Versions

  1. Album Version - 3:45
  2. Video Version (Long Version) - 4:45
  3. Video Version (Short Version) - 4:23

Others:

  1. Grammy's Screen Version
  2. Drowned World Tour DVD End Credits Version
  3. Drowned World Tour Sessions
  4. I'm Going To Tell You A Secret Live Version - 4:54
  5. Music Inferno (Confessions Tour Version) - 7:40
  6. Confessions Tour Sessions

Remixes

  1. Deep Dish Dot Com Remix - 11:23
  2. Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit - 4:15
  3. Deep Dish Dot Com Remix (U.S. Edit) - 4:28
  4. Deep Dish Dot Com Remix (UK. Edit) - 3:58
  5. Groove Armada's 12" Mix - 5:29
  6. Groove Armada's Club Mix - 9:30
  7. Groove Armada's 7" Edit - 3:37
  8. Groove Armada's Bonus Beats - 4:53
  9. Calderone Anthem Mix - 11:57
  10. Calderone Radio Edit - 4:28
  11. The Young Collective Club Mix - 13:17
  12. The Young Collective Radio Mix - 3:42
  13. Richard "Humpty" Vission Phunkatron Remix (Not approved for release) - 6:13
  14. Richard "Humpty" Vission Phunkatron Radio Edit Mix (Not approved for release) -
  15. Richard "Humpty" Vission Phunkatron Dub (Not approved for release) - 6:12
  16. Dave Aude Rubber Combo Mix (Not approved for release) -
  17. Dave Aude Rubber Dub (Not approved for release) - 7:30
  18. Dave Aude Vocal Anthem (Not approved for release) - 8:20
  19. Dave Aude Vocal Anthem Edit (Not approved for release) -
  20. HQ2 Main Club Mix - 8:46
  21. HQ2 Radio Mix - 4:06
  22. HQ2 Acappella Mix - 7:14
  23. Robbie Rivera Club Mix - 6:45

Trivia

  • The song samples a drum loop from the song Never Young Again of Mirwais Ahmadzai wich is also the writer and the producer of Music.
  • The intro of the Drowned World Tour Version version of the song samples the intro of the song Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk.
  • The Re-Invention World Tour version of the song samples a short part from the original soundtrack of Mission Impossible.

Charts

Chart (2000)[4] Peak
Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1 (4 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 3 (2 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales 1 (4 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play 1 (5 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 1 (5 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 2
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 2
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 9
Argentina Top 40 Singles 1 (3 weeks)
Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles 1 (4 weeks)
Austrian Top 75 Singles 5
Belgium Top 50 Singles 6
Brazilian Hot 100 Singles 1
Canadian Billboard Top 100 Singles 1 (7 weeks)
Dutch Top 40 Singles 4
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 1 (5 weeks)
Finnish Top 20 Singles 2
French Top 100 Singles 8
German Top 100 Singles 2
Italy FIMI Singles Chart 1
Israeli Singles Chart 1 (2 weeks)
Japanese (Foreign) Singles Chart 1 (1 week)
'Tokio Hot 100' 1 (7 weeks)
New Zealand RIANZ Top 40 Singles 1 (1 week)
Norway Top 20 Singles 1 (4 weeks)
South African Singles Chart 2
Spain Top 20 Singles 1
Swedish Top 60 Singles 2
Swiss Top 100 Singles 1 (5 weeks)
UK Official Top 75 Singles 1 (1 week)
Czech Singles Chart 8
United World Chart 1 (12 weeks)

Certifications

Country Certification
Australia 2x Platinum
France Gold
Germany Gold
UK Gold
USA Platinum
Preceded by UK singles chart number-one single
August 27 2000 - September 3 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by United World Chart number-one single
September 9 2000 - November 25 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by United World Chart number one single of the year
2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
September 16 2000 - October 7 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart
October 1 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single (first run)
September 3, 2000 - September 17, 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single (second run)
October 1, 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Norwegian VG-lista number-one single
August 31 2000 - September 28 2000 		Succeeded by

Notes

  1. ^ About Us - UWC Methodologies
  2. ^ http://www.mediatraffic.de/greatest-tracks.htm.
  3. ^ http://www.unitedworldchart.de/countdown2000.htm.
  4. ^ "Music: Chart Performance". Mariah-Charts.com. Retrieved 2007-02-10.
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