Key facts
- Released
- September 30, 2011 ( 2011-09-30 )
- Recorded
- July 2009
- Studio
- Maratone Studios ( Stockholm , Sweden)
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3 : 45
- Label
- Jive RCA
- Songwriters
- Max Martin Shellback Tiffany Amber
- Producers
- Max Martin Shellback
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- song
- Genre
- folk-pop
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Scream & Shout
- Follows
- I Wanna Go
- Composer
- Shellback
- Producer
- Max Martin
- Duration
- 225
- Performer
- Britney Spears
- Record label
- RCA Records
- Tonality
- A minor
- Lyrics by
- Shellback
- Distribution format
- music download
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- beats per minute
- 108.00
- publication date
- 2011-09-30
- language of work or name
- English language
- different from
- Criminal
- title
- Criminal
- single taken from the album or EP
- Femme Fatale
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Criminal" on YouTube
"Criminal" is the fourth and final single from American singer Britney Spears' seventh studio album, Femme Fatale (2011). "Criminal" was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing by Tiffany Amber. After Spears first listened to the song, she felt it was different and unlike anything she had heard before. She posted a snippet of it online on March 2, 2011, prior to the album's release. "Criminal" was chosen as a single by a poll on her Facebook page, as Spears explained it was a way to give back to her fans. The artwork for the single was released on September 14, 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Criminal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.