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"All Good Things (Come to an End)"
Single by Nelly Furtado from the album Loose
Released	November 17, 2006 (EU) November 27, 2006 (UK) April 7, 2007 (Australia) April 10, 2007 (North America)
Format	Digital download, CD single, vinyl single
Recorded	The Hit Factory, Miami, Florida, 2005
Genre	Pop
Length	4:25 (radio edit) 5:11 (album version)
Label	Geffen
Writer	Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, Chris Martin, Danja
Producer	Timbaland, Danja
Nelly Furtado singles chronology
"Say It Right" (2006) "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (2006) "Give It to Me" (2007)
Audio sample
Info "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (help·info)
Alternate cover
"Lo Bueno Siempre Tiene un Final" (Spanish version)

"All Good Things (Come to an End)" is a pop song written by Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, Danja 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 United States^[1] and Australia.

Contents 1 Writing and recording 2 Critical reception 3 Commercial release and chart performance 4 Music video 5 Formats and track listings 6 Charts 6.1 Lo Bueno Siempre Tiene Un Final 7 Credits and personnel 8 See also 9 Notes and references 10 External links

"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.^[2][3][4]

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",^[5] but because Timbaland has a large figure and kept calling Martin "Coldplay", Martin was initially nervous and scared.^[4][3] Furtado, who is "always the instigator", told Martin to sit down at the keyboard and begin making music.^[3] "Chris got to express his inner James Brown", she said.^[4] 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".^[6] The version of the song featuring Martin's vocals was leaked onto the internet in late June 2006.^[7]

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".^[5] 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."^[4]

"All Good Things" mainly received positive reviews. 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.^[8] 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".^[9] Chuck Taylor of Billboard magazine wrote that the song is "adventurous, hip, playful and enduring. Featuring an enlightened lyric ("Pain sets in and I don't cry/I only feel gravity and wonder why") with the track's hypnotic melody featuring contribution from Coldplay's Chris Martin, "Good" lives up to Furtado's 2001 double Grammy Award nods."^[10] Steve Wright commented that: "it's a fact that if you play this song right to the end, you will go mad".

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 reached number one in twenty countries,^[10] including Switzerland and Austria. It topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles (her first number-one on the chart) and reached number five on the United World Tracks Chart. In Spain, the song topped the Los 40 Principales chart for four non-consecutive weeks and peaked at number eight on the download chart.

The song was released as the fourth single from Loose in the U.S.^[1] and Australia. It debuted at number twenty on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, rising to number fifteen in its third week; in June, after descending the chart, it rose to a new peak of number twelve, and it remained on the chart for twenty-one weeks.^[11] A new mix of the song was released to radio on April 10 in the U.S., where it debuted at number ninety-nine on the Billboard Hot 100.^[11] It peaked at number eighty-six, falling short of the top twenty peaks achieved by the previous singles from Loose, although it became the album's fourth number-one single on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.^[12]

A version of the song recorded with the Italian pop group Zero Assoluto was released in Italy, where the song was released only as digital download. In Germany the lead singer of the German rock band Reamonn, Rea Garvey, was featured on the song. At the end of April 2007, a Spanish version of "All Good Things (Come to an End)" titled "Lo Bueno Siempre Tiene un Final" was released. It was on sale at the iTunes Store on June 5. Remixes of the song by Dave Aude and Kaskade were released.

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.^[13] 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."^[13]

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.

UK CD single "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit) "Maneater" (Radio 1 Live Lounge session) Maxi-CD "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio mix) "All Good Things (Come to an End)" featuring Rea Garvey "No Hay Igual" featuring Calle 13 "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (video)

European Germany maxi-CD "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit) "All Good Things (Come to an End)" featuring Rea Garvey "Maneater" (Live Lounge Radio session) "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (video) iTunes single "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit) "Maneater" (Radio 1 Live Lounge session)

Australian CD single

1. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (radio edit) – 4:25
2. "Maneater" (Radio 1 Live Lounge session) – 3:01
3. "No Hay Igual" featuring Calle 13 – 3:41
4. "All Good Things (Come to an End)" (video) – 3:48

Charts (2006/2007) Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[11] 12 Austrian Singles Chart[11] 1 Belgian Top 50 Singles[11] 1 Canadian Hot 100[14] 5 Dutch Mega Top 50 Singles Chart[15] 1 Dutch Top 40 Singles Chart[11] 1 European Singles Chart[16] 1 German Singles Chart[11] 1 French Singles Chart[11] 6 Ibero-America Top 100 Singles[17] 30 Irish Singles Chart[11] 8 Italy Download Chart 1 Latin American Singles Chart[18] 16

Charts (2006/2007) Peak position Latvian Airplay Top 50 Chart[11] 1 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[11] 12 Norwegian Singles Chart[11] 1 Portuguese Singles Chart[19] 1 Spain Los 40 Principales[20] 1 Swedish Singles Chart[11] 5 Swiss Singles Chart[11] 1 UK Singles Chart[11] 4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] 86 U.S. Billboard Pop 100[12] 59 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[12] 1 United World Chart[11] 5

Charts (2006/2007)	Peak position
Costa Rica Singles Chart	7
Latin America Singles Chart	16
Ibero-America Top 100[21]	30
Colombia Top 100[22]	15
Panama Singles Chart	1

Preceded by "Patience" by Take That!	Eurochart Hot 100 number-one single January 28, 2007 – March 11, 2007	Succeeded by "She's Madonna" by Robbie Williams
Preceded by "Het Huis Anubis" by Nieke	Dutch Top 40 number-one single February 10, 2007 – February 17, 2007	Succeeded by "Lauwe Pis" by Theo Maassen
Preceded by "Dear Mr. President" by P!nk	Belgian Ultratop 50 number-one single February 10, 2007 – February 24, 2007	Succeeded by "Kvraagetaan" by Fixkes
Preceded by "Qué Hiciste" by Jennifer Lopez	Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single June 30, 2007	Succeeded by "Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
Preceded by "Las de la Intuición" by Shakira	Spain Los 40 number-one single July 4, 2007 – September 11, 2007

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

• 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
• Number-one dance hits of 2007 (USA)

1. ^ ^{a b} Caulfield, Keith. "Ask Billboard - 'Loose' Change". Billboard. January 26, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007.
2. ^ Intini, John. "Nelly Furtado: 'I'm not Mother Teresa'". Maclean's. August 25, 2006. Retrieved May 17, 2007.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Lash, Jolie. "Nelly Furtado Brings the Punk-Hop". Rolling Stone. February 16, 2006. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Vineyard, Jennifer. "Chris Martin Covers Jay-Z — And Other Scenes From Nelly Furtado's Loose". MTV News. June 20, 2006. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
5. ^ ^{a b} Shepherd, Julianne. "How Nelly Furtado Got Her Ghetto Pass". MTV News. June 7, 2006. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
6. ^ Gilbert, Ben. "Nelly Furtado Pulls Chris Martin Duet". Yahoo! Music. June 7, 2006. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
7. ^ "Listen: "All Good Things (Must Come to an End)" ft Chris Martin (Unreleased Track)". Burninthespotlight.com. June 26, 2006. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
8. ^ http://news.entertainment.msn.co.uk/20061124_singles_R390741.htm
9. ^ http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=282;2;-1;-1&sku=568018
10. ^ ^{a b} Taylor, Chuck. "All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado". Billboard.
11. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} "Nelly Furtado - All Good Things (come To An End)". aCharts.us. Retrieved June 7, 2007.
12. ^ ^{a b c d} "Nelly Furtado - Artist Chart History - Singles". Billboard. Retrieved June 30, 2007.
13. ^ ^{a b} Vineyard, Jennifer. "Nelly Furtado Double-Dips With Two Soaking-Wet Videos". MTV News. November 6, 2006. Retrieved November 11, 2006.
14. ^ [1]
15. ^ Dutch Mega Top 50
16. ^ European Top 200 Singles
17. ^ Ibero-America Singles Chart
18. ^ Top Latino
19. ^ Portuguese Top 50
20. ^ Spanish Charts
21. ^ "Ibero-America Top 100 Singles"
22. ^ "Colombia Top 100 Singles"

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

• "All Good Things (Come to an End)" music video (U.S. version) at YouTube

v • d • e Nelly Furtado
Studio albums	Whoa, Nelly! · Folklore · Loose
Singles	"Party's Just Begun (Again)" · "I'm like a Bird" · "Turn off the Light" · "...On the Radio (Remember the Days)" · "Hey, Man!" · "Trynna Finda Way" · "Powerless (Say What You Want)" · "Try" · "Força" · "Explode" · "The Grass Is Green" · "No Hay Igual" · "Promiscuous" · "Maneater" · "Te Busqué" · "Say It Right" · All Good Things (Come to an End)" · "In God's Hands" · "Do It" · "Lo Bueno Siempre Tiene Un Final" · "En Las Manos De Dios" · "Crowd Control"
Guest singles	"Ching Ching" · "Fotografía" · "What's Going On" · "Give It to Me"
DVDs	Loose Mini DVD · Loose the Concert
Related topics	Discography · Awards and nominations · Concert tours