Can't Get You out of My Head

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"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a dance–pop song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. It was produced by Dennis and Davis, and received an overall good reception from music critics when it was released as the first single from Minogue’s eigth album, Fever, in the third quarter of 2001. In the upbeat eurodance song, Minogue describes how she cannot stop thinking about her lover.

The single peaked at number one in forty countries, selling more than four million copies worldwide. The song became a Minogue's first hit in the United States in thirteen years, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became a dance club hit in the U.S., peaking at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Contents

1 Music video
2 Awards
3 Chart performance

3.1 Chart trajectories

4 Live performances and covers
5 Trivia
6 External links

Music video

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Its accompanying music video showed Minogue driving towards the Stanley Kubrick-inspired city and shows back-up dancers practicing taebo. It then went to focus Minogue in a sporty-clad outfit. Minogue was then seen with other dancers in a computer generated futuristic city. Her white, hooded costume with plunging necklines and wide open slits revealing her body figure, was widely discussed both for its fashion style and for Minogue's overt sexual posturing. Lastly, she again appears in a curly hairdo with a metal-like costume which was later used for her back-up dancers' performance in "I Believe in You" on her Showgirl Tour in 2005.

In 2002, the video, directed by Dawn Shadforth, won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography; it was considered largely responsible for the song gaining rapid airplay in each territory in which it was released.

Awards

Dennis and Davis, as composers, won the Ivor Novello Award for "The World's Most Performed Song" for 2001. It also won Minogue several awards throughout the world, including ARIA Awards for Australia's highest selling single of the year, and "Best Pop Recording". Minogue also received an ARIA Award for "Special Achievement" for her career success during this period, largely attributed to the success of this single.

Chart performance

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.

It was the top selling single in Europe for sixteen consecutive weeks, and it remained in Europe's Top 10 for almost six months. This widespread popularity led to radio in the United States playing the single. It ultimately became Minogue's first American Top 40 single since "It's No Secret" in 1988, when it reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002. It was only her second Top 10 single there, her first being "The Loco-Motion" (which reached a higher peak of number 3), also in 1988. "Can't Get You out of My Head" also reached number one on the American Billboard Magazine Dance and Club Charts.

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, and as of 2004 it is the most popular song worldwide since Cher's 1998 single "Believe".

Chart trajectories

Australian ARIA Singles Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Position	1	1	1	1	2	2	4	7	15	21	27	48	56	60	62	57	74	78	88

Irish Singles Chart trajectory — "Can't Get You out of My Head" — Top 50 (beginning 20 Sep '01)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Chart position 1 1 1 1 3 3 6 7 7 11 17 12 17 15 16 21 28 38 46

Irish Singles Chart trajectory — "Can't Get You out of My Head" — Top 50 (beginning 20 Sep '01)
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Chart position	1	1	1	1	3	3	6	7	7	11	17	12	17	15	16	21	28	38	46

Live performances and covers

["Can't Get You out of My Head" (2001)] ([file info])
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When actress Winona Ryder was being accused of shoplifting, a successful parody was made and spread through the Internet, titled Can't Get Her out of My Store. "Can't Get You out of My Head" has also been covered by The Flaming Lips and appears on their Fight Test EP.

On May 18, 2005, the day after Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer, singer-songwriter Tori Amos performed the song at her Melbourne show in honour of Minogue, whom she met and became friends with in 1998. Glastonbury headliners Coldplay and Basement Jaxx also covered the song as part of their 2005 sets, after Minogue's illness forced her to pull out of her headlining appearance at the festival.