All Good Things (Come to an End)

"All Good Things"
Song

"All Good Things (Come to an End)" is a pop song written by Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, Nate "Danja" Hills and Chris Martin for Furtado's third album Loose (2006). It was co-produced by Timbaland and Danja and released as the album's third European single in November 2006 (see 2006 in music). It was released as the fourth single in the U.S.

Writing and recording

"All Good Things" was conceived near the end of the recording of Loose. Furtado was at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, which was held in Miami, Florida in August, when she bumped into her old friend Chris Martin, who had been performing with Coldplay. Furtado told Martin she was working with Timbaland on a new album, and Martin said he "loved" Timbaland and asked if he could visit the studio. Timbaland had been listening to Coldplay's album X&Y in the studio frequently the previous week, so Furtado agreed and invited Martin to The Hit Factory the following night.

Timbaland and Martin had expressed admiration for each other's work, but they had not previously met. According to Furtado, "They were really humbled in each other's presence", but because Timbaland has a large figure and kept calling Martin "Coldplay", Martin was initially nervous and scared. Furtado, who is "always the instigator", told Martin to sit down at the keyboard and begin making music. "Chris got to express his inner James Brown", she said. Martin originally contributed to the song with his vocals, but after a request from executives at his record label, they were removed from the finished version of the song included on Loose. According to Furtado, the executives "didn't want his voice sounding so rocky". The version of the song featuring Martin's vocals was leaked onto the internet in late June 2006 and will be available on the Japanese version of Loose. A version of the song recorded with the Italian pop group Zero Assoluto was released in Italy.

Furtado has said that because she has "a tendency towards melancholy" and considers Martin "Mr. Melancholic Genius", the process of creating the song was "magic". She has described the song as "a fusion of Tim's rough-sounding hip-hop beats with that melancholy Chris has mastered, and I'm in-between."

Commercial release

An MSN UK review of the song described it as "a reflective and emotional ballad with a strong melody, presumably the input of the Coldplay man, and lyrics which remind us that Nelly's still like a bird, albeit one who likes a bit of night-time action"; it gave the song 4.5 out of five stars. HMV UK published a four out of five star review in which its writer said that, in contrast to the album's previous singles, "Maneater" and "Promiscuous", "All Good Things" is "a beautiful, hooky, emotive ballad". The single was released in Europe in November 2006 and became considerably successful, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and the top five on most charts. In countries such as the Netherlands and Austria it peaked higher than "Maneater" and "Promiscuous", and it became Furtado's first number-one hit in Germany and the Netherlands; it also reached number one in Lithuania, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Slovakia, Israel and Poland. It topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles (being her first time) and reached number five on the United World Tracks Chart.

The song will be released as the fourth single from Loose in the U.S. and Australia. A new mix of the song will be released to U.S. radio on April 10.

Music video

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Nelly Furtado in the music video.

The "All Good Things" video was filmed in Puerto Rico and shot back-to-back with the video for "Say It Right", the album's third single in North America. It features a love story between Furtado and a male model, with Furtado seen walking along a beach and into a forest, where she finds a dinner table hanging upside-down from a tree. There are accompanying shots of the model finding, and subsequently hanging from, the table. The video includes flashbacks to when Furtado and the model were eating at the table, and it ends with them holding each other under a stream of water. "It's very tropical and romantic", Furtado said. "It reminds me of old Sarah McLachlan videos, it has that element of art to it. It's kind of like cinema."

The video features the radio edit of the song. On March 7 it made its North American premiere on MuchMusic in Canada, and on March 19 it debuted on MTV's TRL in the U.S. It entered the show's countdown at number ten the next day, subsequently climbing the chart to reach number two.

Formats and track listings

UK CD single

1. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio mix)
2. "Maneater" (Radio 1 Live Lounge session)

Maxi-CD

1. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio mix)
2. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" featuring Reamonn
3. "No Hay Igual" featuring Residente Calle 13
4. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (video)

European Germany maxi-CD

1. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit)
2. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" featuring Reamonn
3. "Maneater" (Live Lounge Radio session)
4. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (video)

iTunes single

1. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit)
2. "Maneater" (Radio 1 Live Lounge session)

Charts

Charts (2006/2007)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart	1
Belgian Top 50 Singles	1
Bulgarian Airplay Chart	1
Canada BDS Airplay	70
Chinese Singles Chart	12
Croatian Airplay Chart	1
Czech Airplay Chart	1
Denmark Airplay Chart	1
Dutch Mega Top 50 Singles Chart	1
Dutch Top 40 Singles Chart	1
Estonian Airplay Chart	1
European Singles Chart	1
German Singles Chart	1
French Singles Chart	8
French Download Chart	2
Hungarian Airplay	1

Charts (2006/2007)	Peak position
Irish Singles Chart	8
Israeli Singles Chart	1
Latvian Airplay Chart	1
Lithuanian Singles Chart	1
Norwegian Singles Chart	1
Polish Singles Chart	1
Portuguese Singles Chart	1
Romanian Airplay Chart	1
Russian Top 50 Chart	1
Slovak Republic Airplay Chart	1
Singapore Top 20	13
Swedish Singles Chart	3
Swiss Singles Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	4
Ukraine Airplay Chart	1
United World Chart	5

Credits and personnel

• Drums by Timbaland
• Keyboards by Danja
• Guitar by Dan Warner
• Background vocals by Nelly Furtado and Jim Beanz
• Recording, engineering and mixing by Demacio "Demo" Castellon
• Second engineered by James Roach, Kobla Tetey, Ben Jost and Vadim Chislov

• Additional recording by Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica
• Vocal production by Jim Beanz
• Recorded at The Hit Factory, Miami, Florida
• Mixed at Thomas Crown Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia

See also

• Number ones of European Hit Radio Top 40 (2006)
• Number ones of European Hit Radio Top 40 (2007)
• Dutch Top 40 number-one hits of 2007
• Polish National Top 50 number-one hits of 2007

Notes and references

• Unknown (2006). In Loose [CD liner notes]. United States: Geffen Records.