can't get you out of my head

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"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is a pop-dance song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue for her eighth studio album Fever (2001). The club track was written and produced by Cathy Dennis, and Rob Davis and was inspired by 1990's electropop and eurodance. Released as the album's lead single in the third quarter of 2001 (see 2001 in music), it reached number one in forty countries, selling about 6,000,000 copies worldwide. While the song became Minogue's first U.S. top-ten single in thirteen years, "Can't Get You out of My Head" ranked as the third most successful single of the year 2001.

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The release of the single was considered crucial to solidifying Minogue's success after she returned to widespread popularity in the United Kingdom and Australia the previous year with the album Light Years, her first major success for almost a decade. The single topped the charts of each country for 4 weeks.

The single sold 306,648 copies in its first week in the UK and sold 1,037,235 copies by the end of the year in the UK alone.It was the top selling single in Europe for sixteen consecutive weeks, and it remained in Europe's Top 10 for almost six months: in Italy the single topped the chart for ten consecutive weeks, spending the most number of weeks at the top of the Italian chart in 2001.[1] In Germany, after spending twenty weeks inside the charts was certified Platinum by the IFPI.[2]

The single became Minogue's first hit in the United States in thirteen years, ultimately becoming Minogue's first American Top 40 single since "It's No Secret" in 1988, when it reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002. It also became her second Top 10 single there, her first being "The Loco-Motion" (which reached a higher peak of number 3), also in 1988. The song was also a massive dance club hit in the U.S., peaking at #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The song received heavy radio airplay across several formats including Rhythmic, Hot AC, and Latin radio stations in the U.S. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" was certified gold for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States on 8/15/05.

The United World Chart, a worldwide chart system based on record sales, radio airplay and legal downloads placed the song at number one for nine weeks. Based on a points system it was credited as the world's 3rd most popular song of 2001, and the 10th most popular song of 2002. It should be noted however that the delayed success in the United States led to the figures being split between the two years. The total points awarded to this single, make it the most popular song of the two years combined.

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