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“Music”
Single by Madonna from the album Music
B-side	"Cyberraga"
Released	August 11, 2000
Format	DVD single CD single CD maxi single Video single Cassette single 7" Single 12" Maxi-single
Recorded	2000
Genre	Dance-pop, techno
Length	3:45
Label	Maverick, Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Madonna Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Producer	Madonna Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Madonna singles chronology
"American Pie" (2000) "Music" (2000) "Don't Tell Me" (2000/2001)
Madonna Music Video chronology
The Madonna Collection (2000)	Music (2000)	The Ultimate Collection (2000)
Alternate covers
UK CD single 2 cover
Japanese remix promo CD cover
UK cassette single cover
DVD single cover

"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 in 2001. Audio sample (help·info). The song was re-released in 2007 to promote the live album The Confessions Tour and retitled "Music Inferno". The new version was a mash-up live version with elements from "Disco Inferno", it was a promotional only release. The song has sold more than 7 million units worldwide to date.

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, Italy, South Africa and Argentina, to name but a few 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.

In 2003, Madonna fans were asked to vote for their Top 20 Madonna singles of all-time by Q-Magazine. "Music" was allocated the #2 spot.

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

"Music" has appeared in all four of Madonna's tours since it was released (Drowned World Tour, Re-Invention Tour, Confessions Tour and Sticky & Sweet Tour). For the first two of the four concerts, it was placed in the encore; it was the final song of The Drowned World Tour, and the first encore for the Re-Invention Tour. The version used in this last tour was slower, Hip-Hop-based. Also, the song opened the last segment of her record-breaking Confessions Tour. With Saturday Night Fever-inspired clothing and surroundings, the song was mixed with the Trammps' "Disco Inferno", thus creating the hedonistic Music Inferno. "Music" was part of the Hard Candy Promo Tour, in support of the Hard Candy album; this version sampled Fedde le Grand's "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit", getting a Dance-version of the song. It was the last song performed during the 2nd act of her Sticky & Sweet Tour, the Old School tribute, where Madonna used the version of the promotional tour, with a sample of Indeep's "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" at the beginning of the song.

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

Madonna in "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. The video stars Madonna and her longtime backup singer Nikki Haris and actress Debi Mazar as well as comediant Sacha Baron Cohen as his famous character Ali G.

Madonna was heavily pregnant with her second child, Rocco, during the shooting and the animated section of the video was added as a result. In the animated parts of the video, Madonna attacks various neon signs with the names of many of her songs, including Rain, Lucky Star, Bad Girl, Vogue, Fever, La Isla Bonita, Express Yourself and Material Girl.

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.^[1]

The music video was parodied on MADtv. The parody was called Movies, and featured Mo Collins as Madonna. The video poked fun at Madonna's filmography, with an animated 'Madonna' attacking signs that had the names of her movies.

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

DVD release

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

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

Track listings and formats

Official Versions

• Album Version (3:45)
• Video Version (Long Version) (4:45)
• Video Version (Short Version) (4:23)

Official Remixes

• Music (HQ2 Club Mix) 8:50
• Music (HQ2 Radio Mix) 4:04
• Music (HQ2 A Capella Mix) 7:15
• Music (Victor Calderone Anthem Mix) 11:55
• Music (Victor Calderone Radio Edit) 4:25
• Music (Victor Calderone Dub)
• Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Remix) 11:21
• Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit) 4:14
• Music (Deep Dish Dot Com UK Radio Mix)
• Music (Deep Dish Dot Com US Radio Mix)
• Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Dub)
• Music (The Young Collective Club Mix) 13:16
• Music (The Young Collective Radio Mix) 3:45
• Music (Groove Armada Club Mix) 9:28
• Music (Groove Armada 12" Mix) 5:28
• Music (Groove Armada 7" Edit) 3:37
• Music (Groove Armada Bonus Beats) 4:49
• Music (Robbie Rivera Remix) 6:45
• Music (Robbie Rivera Radio Edit)
• Music (Richard "Humpty" Vission Phunktron Mix) 6:17
• Music (Richard "Humpty" Vission Phunktron Dub) 6:45
• Music (Dave Audé Vocal Anthem) 8:22
• Music (Dave Audé Rubber Dub) 7:26
• Music (Dave Audé Rubber Combo Mix) 9:39
• Music (12" Mix/Extended Mix/Mirwais 12" Mix)

Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (April 2008)

• The song samples a drum loop from the song Never Young Again of Mirwais Ahmadzai who 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.
• Part of the song was spoofed during Britney Spears' Dream Within a Dream Tour

Certifications

Charts

Notes

External links

• Mad-eyes.net - "Music" Single Page

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