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Jay-Z - Run This Town

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Topic: Jay-Z - Run This Town

Posted By: aaronk
Subject: Jay-Z - Run This Town
Date Posted: 09 May 2010 at 10:25am

Although it's not mentioned in the database, "Run This Town" went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. There are at least two different radio versions that I know of: the "Clean Edit" and the "Extra Clean Edit." They both run 4:33, which is about six seconds longer than the album version. I'm not sure what makes up the difference, but it's not a matter of the fade being shorter on the album.

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Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 5:59am

I have the commercial CD single issued as Roc Nation 521199. It has the "uncensored" version (with a Parental Advisory sticker) and runs (4:33).

Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 10 May 2010 at 7:12am

Wow! I had no idea they even made CD singles anymore, other than imports. I just figured out the run time difference---the speeds are different. The radio versions that run 4:33 (and I assume your commercial CD single version) are about 2% slower than the LP version.

Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 24 August 2012 at 10:16pm

aaronk wrote:

They both run 4:33, which is about six seconds longer than the album version. I'm not sure what makes up the difference, but it's not a matter of the fade being shorter on the album.

Was just surprised by this myself tonight. Yes, the album version is sped up by exactly 1.022 percent from what the single runs. The stand-alone digital single, which was the album version (also the clean version, separately), runs exactly 4:33. The sped-up album version runs 4:27.

Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 24 August 2012 at 11:55pm

George Michael did that with "Hard Day," by the way... sped it up considerably for the album. The single version (which I have on a domestic CD3, the "flip side" of the "I Want Your Sex" maxi-single) runs much slower. Same mix, just faster on the album.

Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 04 October 2012 at 1:32am

Just obtained a sealed copy of the US CD single for "Run This Town" (a Best Buy exclusive), and it runs at the single speed, not the faster album speed.