Reception
"30 Minutes" received favorable reviews from most music critics. Drago Bonacich from Allmusic selected the song as an album highlight. James Martin from The Digital Mix called the song an "exceptional haunting piano piece" and concluded that it sounds as chilling as Siberia looks. Sputnikmusic described the song as "Hardly a ballad, but a wonderfully mellow song nonetheless." Matt Cibula from PopMatters described the song as a "slow atmospheric ballad."
Commercially, however, the song was a commercial failure as it didn't manage to chart in any record chart apart from Romania. The song peaked at number thirty-four on the Romanian Singles Chart.
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