Touch Me (Rui da Silva song)

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"Touch Me"
Touch Me (Single) Cass.jpg
Single by Rui da Silva featuring Cassandra
Released1 January 2001 (2001-01-01)
Genre
Length
  • 8:36 (original mix)
  • 3:40 (radio edit)
Label
Composer(s) Rui da Silva
Lyricist(s) Cassandra Fox
Producer(s) Rui da Silva
Rui da Silva singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2001)
"Feel the Love"
(2002)
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Touch Me"
(2001)
"Out of My Reach"
(2005)

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [47] Platinum600,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom1 January 2001
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
Kismet [7]
Australia19 March 2001CD
  • Kismet
  • Bang On!
[48]
New Zealand2 April 2001
  • 12-inch remix vinyl
  • CD
[49]

Cassandra Fox version

"Touch Me"
Cass Fox - Touch Me.JPG
Single by Cass Fox
from the album Come Here
B-side "Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)
Released30 October 2006 (2006-10-30)
Length4:01
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Rollo Armstrong
Cass Fox singles chronology
"Little Bird"
(2006)
"Touch Me"
(2006)

Island Records released their own version in 2006, re-recording it with the backing track for Cass Fox's album Come Here . Information of the re-release was posted on her personal website: "4 years after the track was originally number one, the track written and sung by Cass with Rui da Silva is being re-released on 30 October. Remixes come from X-Press 2, Tom Neville and Spencer & Hill and have already been getting plays on Radio 1 (Judge Jules) and Kiss FM." [50]

Fox left Island Records and decided not to move forward with the re-release of "Touch Me". She went on the Faithless Tour instead.

Track listings

UK CD single [51]

  1. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Mix)
  2. "Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)
  3. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
  4. "Touch Me" (radio edit)

UK 12-inch vinyl [52]

A. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill Full Length Mix)
B. "Touch Me" (X-Press 2's Rave and Bleep vocal)

Digital download [53]

  1. "Touch Me" (Spencer & Hill radio edit) – 3:27

Melanie C version

On 3 September 2021, English pop music singer Melanie C released her cover of "Touch Me" to accompany the deluxe digital and streaming version of her eighth studio album, Melanie C . [54] [55] The single was produced by Billen Ted. The official music video was released to YouTube on the same day. [56]

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