Savana Santos Leaves Love In The Rearview In Record-Time On “4 Minutes” 

Today (6.26), GRAMMY-nominated songwriter and viral progressive-pop sensation Savana Santos sets the stopwatch for moving on with her new song “4 minutes,” out today via Big Machine Records. In it, Santos captures the moment that love breaks clean – when second-guessing finally fades and eight years of emotional weight are left in the rearview with a no-regrets, bittersweet farewell. 

Listen to Santos’ “4 minutes,” here:

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"'4 minutes’ is about sweet, sweet freeeeeeedom ��,” said Santos.

Written and produced by Santos alongside Alex Hope (Selena Gomez, Troye Sivian) andSam Backoff (The Band Perry, Charles Esten), “4 minutes” unspools in flashes of heaviness (“I didn’t think that I would make it out alive”), carried by soft acousticstrings that tick like a clock beneath Santos’ airy vocals. It threads through days of restraint and dreams drained of joy, before snapping into a split-second fracture at love’s breaking point: “make this the god damn sweetest goodbye.”

Santos first captured the internet’s attention as one-third of the viral trio Avenue Beat(Sami Bearden, Santos, Backoff), whose bedroom-pop anthem “F2020” became the unofficial soundtrack to a generation navigating uncertainty, frustration and chaos during the pandemic. The song amassed more than 100 million streams globally, earned millions of views across platforms and garnered coverage from Variety, PEOPLE, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, NYLON and PAPER. Since then, the Quincy, Illinois native has expanded her creative footprint as an accomplished songwriter, producer and artist, with songs recorded by Little Big Town, JP Saxe, Joshua Bassett, JoJo, Madi Diaz, Claire Rosinkranz and more.

Now forging her own path as a solo artist, Santos has built a catalog that includes the infectious friendship anthem “SOULMATES (ft. Sam Backoff)” (6.15), fan favorites “messy” and “cheater” from her 2023 debut, 1, and projects such as may 2024 ♡ and 3 (old a$$ songs that would have died on the hard drive). Additional new music is expected in the coming months.