You (Schiller song)

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"You"
Schiller & Colbie Caillat - You.jpg
Single by Schiller featuring Colbie Caillat
from the album Sehnsucht
Released31 October 2008
Recorded2008
Genre Electropop
Label Island
Songwriter(s) Christopher von Deylen, Colbie Caillat
Schiller singles chronology
"Time for Dreams"
(2008)
"You"
(2008)
"Try"
(2010)
Colbie Caillat singles chronology
"Midnight Bottle"
(2008)
"You"
(2008)
"Lucky"
(2008)

You is the second single from the reedition of the 2008 Schiller platinum album Sehnsucht featuring vocals by Colbie Caillat. The song was officially released in October 2008 and was peaking at number 19 on German singles chart in 2008.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "You"
  2. "Zeit der Sehnsucht"

Background

The Song was written in July 2008 in the US by Christopher von Deylen (Schiller) and Colbie Caillat. [1]

Music video

The music video for "You" was shot on 25 August 2008 in Los Angeles at the shore of the Pacific Ocean by German director Marcus Sternberg. It made its world premiere on 3 October 2008 on the German music TV station VIVA. [1]

The video features Christopher von Deylen, Colbie Caillat and others. In the video, Caillat is shown in front of a car and ram-air inflatable single-line kites in the shape of octopuses and under and on a pier.

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
Austria [2] 64
Germany (Media Control AG) [3] 19

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