Kiss Me (New Found Glory song)
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| Single by Sixpence None the Richer | ||||
| from the album Sixpence None the Richer | ||||
| Released | August 11, 1998 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, jangle pop | |||
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3:19 (single version) 3:30 (album version) |
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| Label | Squint, Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Matt Slocum | |||
| Producer(s) | Steve Taylor | |||
| Sixpence None the Richer singles chronology | ||||
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"Kiss Me" is a song recorded by American pop rock band Sixpence None the Richer from their 1997 self-titled album. Released as a single in 1998, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was a worldwide success; it reached number four on both the UK Singles Chart and the New Zealand Singles Chart, as well as peaking atop the Australian singles chart and the Canadian Singles Chart, making it the group's highest-charting single across the world.
The song is also the group's best-selling single in the United States, peaking at number two for one week behind TLC's "No Scrubs". Despite only reaching second place, the song had great longevity on the chart, spending 16 weeks in the Top Ten and 35 weeks on the chart. At the end of 1999, Billboard ranked the song as the sixth best-selling single of 1999, ahead of a number of other No. 1 hits and the second highest rank for a song that didn't make it to the top, behind Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, and Kelly Price's "Heartbreak Hotel", which ranked at No. 4. It became the main theme song for the teen film She's All That starring Rachael Leigh Cook.
The year after the release of the album Sixpence None the Richer, "Kiss Me" was released as a single on August 11, 1998. Exactly three months after the debut release of the single, The WB's popular teen drama Dawson's Creek played "Kiss Me" as background music in two of its episodes from Season 2. In January 1999, Miramax used "Kiss Me" as the main theme song of its teen romantic comedy film She's All That. The film's box office success helped "Kiss Me" to gain widespread mainstream attention and chart success. "Kiss Me" climbed to No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 list, and stayed in the Top 10 for 16 straight weeks. "Kiss Me" was also included on the first soundtrack on Songs from Dawson's Creek, released on April 27, 1999 which made No. 7 on the album charts. Later that year, the BBC used the song as a closing theme during its broadcast coverage of Prince Edward's royal wedding upon the request of the British Royal Family.
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