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"Be with You" is a song from girl group Atomic Kitten's second studio album, Ladies Night. The song was a big hit in Australia, peaking at #10 and #15 in New Zealand. "Be with You" samples Electric Light Orchestra's song "Last Train to London", using both tune and the lyrics from the chorus, "I really want tonight to last forever. I really want to be with you." The single became Atomic Kitten's fifth best selling single in the United Kingdom, with sales of 182,695, peaking at #2 on the UK Singles Chart in December 2002.
The single was a worldwide success, reaching the top 40 in every country where it was released. The single peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart on its first week of release. It stayed on the chart for 12 weeks, and managed to sell 182,695 copies in the UK alone. It is Atomic Kitten's fifth-best-selling single in the UK, after "Whole Again", "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)", and "Eternal Flame". The single also was a top 10 hit in The Republic of Ireland, and like the UK, was their fourth-best-selling single there. In New Zealand, the single went straight in at 11, just missing the top 10. Atomic Kitten never promoted their singles in New Zealand, yet went on to have three number ones, four top tens, and 8 top twenties. In other words, all of their singles released in New Zealand peaked in the top 20, with the exception of "Right Now", which only managed to peak at 40. The song was a top 20 hit in The Netherlands and Austria, again, a success, considering they never promoted it over there. Although their lowest charting hit in Denmark, it still managed to peak at 20. Denmark is the only country for every one of Atomic Kitten's singles to reach the top 20. In Germany and Switzerland, the single was a top 30 hit, and in Belgium and Sweden the single was a top 40 hit.
The original version of Be With You was actually by Liverpool based writers, Bionic (Greg Wilson, Tracey Carmen and Martin Foster). In 1999, Martin Foster had the idea and sampled up the instrumental strings and chorus segments to create a sketch of a disco track with the notion of making a club track that could be a hit for seeing in the new millennium. Carmen and Wilson heard the potential in the sketch and collaborated with Foster to take the idea further. The verse lyrics were actually penned by Greg Wilson and, in fact, a third verse was written and never used. Bionic had signed a production deal with Innocent Records and began auditioning a number of female singers to front the single, however it was soon decided that the song would be an ideal disco track for Atomic Kitten and the label had demos mixed by other production teams. In 2002, Innocent Records released two 12" promos featuring remixes of the original Bionic track. Mixes on the discs were by Olav Basovski and MaUVe.
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