Key facts
- Released
- September 29, 2009 ( 2009-09-29 )
- Recorded
- July 2009
- Studio
- Maratone ( Stockholm, Sweden )
- Genre
- Electropop dance-pop
- Length
- 3 : 33
- Label
- Jive
- Composers
- Max Martin Karl Schuster Tiffany Amber
- Lyricist
- Max Martin
- Producers
- Max Martin Shellback
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Genre
- synth-pop
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Hold It Against Me
- Composer
- Max Martin
- Producer
- Max Martin
- Performer
- Britney Spears
- Record label
- Jive Records
- Tonality
- F minor
- Lyrics by
- Max Martin
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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- publication date
- 2009-09-29
- beats per minute
- 135
- language of work or name
- English language
- charted in
- Billboard Hot 100
- title
- 3
- different from
- 3
- single taken from the album or EP
- The Singles Collection
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "3" on YouTube
"3" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her second greatest hits album, The Singles Collection (2009). It was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing from Tiffany Amber. The song was released on September 29, 2009, by Jive Records, as the only single from The Singles Collection. "3" is an uptempo electropop song that features a heavy bassline and synthesizers, and lyrics that talk about threesomes, while referencing American folk-singing trio Peter, Paul and Mary during the chorus as sexual slang.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.