A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins song)

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"A Girl Like You"
Single by Edwyn Collins
from the album Gorgeous George
Released 1994
Format CD single, CD maxi
Recorded 1994
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:59
Label Setanta Records
Writer(s) Edwyn Collins
Producer Edwyn Collins

"A Girl Like You" is a 1994 single by Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins from his album Gorgeous George. It tells the tale of the singer's experience meeting an extraordinary girl.

The song samples the drums track of Len Barry's 1965 hit "1-2-3". It was featured in the Empire Records soundtrack and second in the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle soundtrack. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song as a bonus track on their 2007 video game Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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[edit] Music video

The U.S. video was in turn an avant-garde tribute to its lyrics (e.g. when Collins sings the lyrics "you made me acknowledge the devil in me", a child's painting of the devil is overlaid over his face). Another video shows Collins singing over videos and silhouettes of dancers.

[edit] Production

The Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook played vibraphone on the recording.

[edit] Chart performance

[edit] Copyright controversy

On 30 September 2009, Collins' manager posted to Collins' MySpace page [1] to discuss how Collins owned the copyright to the song and wanted to make it available to anyone as a free download but MySpace only allowed major labels to assert the rights to tracks hosted on their site. A later posting notes that after the story was picked up by major news outlets the song was once again available on the MySpace music player.[2]

[edit] Track listings

CD single
  1. "A Girl Like You" — 3:59
  2. "A Girl Like You" (Macramé remix by Youth) — 5:42
French CD single
  1. "A Girl Like You" — 3:59
  2. "Out Of This World" (Remixé par St-Etienne) — 4:58
CD maxi
  1. "A Girl Like You"
  2. "Don't Shilly Shally"
  3. "Something's Brewing"
  4. "Bring It on Back"
CD maxi
  1. "A Girl Like You"
  2. "If You Could Love Me" (acoustic version)
  3. "Don't Shilly Shally" (spotter's 86 demo version)
  4. "You're on Your Own"

[edit] Charts

[edit] Peak positions

Chart (1994–1995) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] 6
Austrian Singles Chart[3] 7
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[3] 8
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[3] 5
Dutch Mega Top 100[3] 18
Finnish Singles Chart[3] 11
French SNEP Singles Chart[3] 4
German Singles Chart[3] 3
Irish IRMA Singles Chart[4] 8
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[3] 36
Norwegian Singles Chart[3] 7
Swedish Singles Chart[3] 4
Swiss Singles Chart[3] 9
UK Singles Chart[5] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] 32
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[6] 7
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[6] 32

[edit] Year-end charts

Chart (1995) Position
Austrian Singles Chart[7] 38
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[8] 21
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[9] 10
French Singles Chart[10] 19
Swiss Singles Chart[11] 31

[edit] Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
France (SNEP)[12] Silver 125,000*
Germany (BVMI)[13] Gold 250,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

[edit] References

  1. ^ "
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "A Girl Like You", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved 12 February 2008)
  4. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  5. ^ "A Girl Like You", UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  6. ^ a b c Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  7. ^ 1995 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  8. ^ 1995 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  9. ^ 1995 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  10. ^ 1995 French Singles Chart Disqueenfrance.com (Retrieved 30 January 2009)
  11. ^ 1995 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved 24 July 2008)
  12. ^ "French single certifications – Collins Edwyn – A Girl Like You" (in French). InfoDisc. http://www.infodisc.fr/Single_Certif.php.  Select COLLINS EDWYN and click OK
  13. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Edwyn Collins; 'A Girl Like You')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=A+Girl+Like+You&strInterpret=Edwyn+Collins&strTtArt=single&strAwards=checked. 
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