Till the World Ends

March 4, 2011

Till the World Ends (English for " Till the world ends " ) is a song by American pop singer Britney Spears. It is the second single from her seventh studio album Femme Fatale. Till the World Ends was written by Alexander Kronlund, Ke $ ha, Dr. Luke and Max Martin. It was produced by Dr. Luke piece, Max Martin and Billboard. The single appeared on 3 March 2011 surprisingly the Internet on the following day made ​​Spears the song in person at the KIIS - FM radio show Ryan Seacrest before. On April 26, published in 2011 Spears the song as "The Femme Fatale Remix" and was for Nicki Minaj and Ke $ ha win as guest vocalists.

Till the World Ends is Spears' eighth top- three hit in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the second most successful radio hit of her career after I Wanna Go. With sales of over 2.638 million the song is also Spears 's third most successful single.

Background

In an interview with the U.S. music magazine Spin on 11 February 2011 Ke $ ha was talking about a song called Till the World Ends, which she had co-written by Dr. Luke and Max Martin for the seventh studio album by the singer Britney Spears. On 2 March 2011 the single cover was released. On the same day was published surprisingly a 30 second audition on Amazon.de. Till the World Ends appeared unofficially on 3 March 2011 Shortly thereafter, Spears announced through Twitter and Facebook.:

Looks like the cat 's out of the bag ... ( in German: " It looks as if the cat out of the bag ...")

The next day, the official radio premiere took place in the radio show Ryan Seacrest on KIIS -FM with Spears as a guest star. Till the World Ends was released for purchase on iTunes on the same day, a few days earlier than originally planned.

On April 22, 2011 it was announced that Nicki Minaj and Ke $ ha will be represented on a remix version of the song as guest vocalists. Already on the same day, the remix was released unofficially on the Internet, even though the U.S. release date for iTunes was first, but then laid down on 25 April to 26 April 2011. On April 25, 2011 Spears released on Twitter the cover of Till the World Ends (The Femme Fatale Remix) showing all three singers.

In 2011 she presented the song in several television shows, and during her Femme Fatale Tour. It is also part of her current Las Vegas show Britney: Piece of Me

Composition

Till the World Ends is a dance-pop and electropop song, the " crackling " Bassline starts with sirens and a. The main segment of the song " I cant take it take it take no more / Never felt like felt like this before / C'mon get me get me off the floor / DJ whatcha whatcha waitin 'for? " Should connect to the title. This is followed by a frequently repeated " Whoa -oh -oh- oh" Beat the Bridge. The song ends with the lines " If you feel it let it happen / Keep on dancing till the world ends".

Music Video

The music video for Till the World Ends was directed by Ray Kay in Los Angeles. On March 17, Spears reported on her first day of shooting, issuing a photo on Twitter. The video will be released in two versions, such as Ray Kay confirmed via Twitter. A version will deal with an apocalyptic action while the others are purely related to the dance choreography of Spears. On April 4, a preview of the music video for Britney Spears 's official Youtube account was published. On April 5, Spears confirmed via Twitter, that will take place the release of the music video on April 6 on her official Vevo account. After just one week the video about 10 million times it has been clicked on YouTube.

Charts

Parallel to the U.S. radio premiere March 4, 2011 Till the World Ends was released worldwide on iTunes as a download and reached eg in Mexico and Spain, the top of the iTunes charts.

In the UK, Till the World Ends rose on March 6, 2011, after only two days of sales already evaluated at number 55 of the official singles chart and peaked in the following week at No. 21 On 8 March 2011 the song debuted at # 17 of the Norwegian charts and reached after two weeks at No. 2 as the maximum position. The song debuted in the first chart week at No. 23 in Spain, and at number 29 in France. In the French charts Till the World Ends improved to 7th place on March 9, 2011, the U.S. music magazine Billboard announced that the song is digitally sold 117,000 times in three days after its release and # 10 on the Billboard Digital songs chart goes. In the Billboard Hot 100, Till the World Ends placed with this result, on 10 March 2011 immediately ranked 20th early in the following week, the song climbed thanks to 158,000 units sold and rising digital radio operations at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100; it is Spears' tenth top 10 hit in the U.S.. Then the song slipped to No. 23 thanks to the consistently well-received music video Till the World Ends improved steadily, reaching 14 April 2011 No. 8 on the Hot 100 After the release of Femme Fatale Remixes the download sales increased again significantly to 246,000 units so that Till the World Ends with space 3 achieved the highest chart position on May 5, 2011, both on the Hot 100 as well as in the digital song charts. In the U.S., the song has now received double-platinum status for 2,000,000 units sold. In the Canadian Hot 100, the song placed on 10 March 2011, first at No. 16, climbed into the following week at No. 7 and then slipped to 19th place. Thanks to the video premiere of the song made ​​it on 14 April 2011 back into the top 10 and reached # 6 After the release remix the song climbed on May 5, 2011 on 4th place in Finland Till the World Ends debuted at # 10 and reached 6th place in the following week, the highest chart entry recorded the song in Ireland, where it debuted at No. 7 thanks to its high download sales. It is Spears' 24th Top 10 single in the Irish charts. On 11 March 2011 Till the World Ends debuted in both the Danish and the Dutch charts at # 29 In Denmark, the song reached number 9 as the maximum position. In Switzerland, the song placed 20 March 2011 immediately ranked 24th after only two weeks, the song fell from the charts, rose 10 April 2011 but back to square one and reached 30 on May 15, 2011 Place 7, the highest chart position. On 21 March 2011, the song also reached the Australian singles chart and debuted at number 19 on April 25, 2011 reached Till the World Ends 8th place its highest position. In Germany the song as were the predecessors Hold It Against Me failed to make it into the top 20 of the singles chart due to a late publication. Till the World Ends reached in the first chart week only 27th place, slipped in the following week but surprisingly only one position at number 28. In addition, the song was 13 weeks old so long in the German charts like no other song the singer since Womanizer.

Chart positions

International sales

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