Let Me Be Your Fantasy

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"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
Let Me Be Your Fantasy.jpg
Single by Baby D
from the album Deliverance
Released26 October 1992 (1992-10-26)
Genre
Length
  • 7:49(album version)
  • 3:52 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s) Floyd Dyce
Producer(s) Floyd Dyce
Baby D singles chronology
"Day Dreaming"
(1990)
"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
(1992)
"Destiny"
(1993)

"Casanova"
(1994)

"Let Me Be Your Fantasy"
(1994)

"(Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving"
(1995)

Trick or Treat remix

Chart (2000)Peak
position
Germany (Official German Charts) [46] 90
Scotland (OCC) [47] 31
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [48] 96
UK Singles (OCC) [22] 16
UK Dance (OCC) [49] 3

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [50] Platinum600,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Cover versions

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