Giving You Up

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"Giving You Up"
Single by Kylie Minogue
from the album Ultimate Kylie
B-side(s)	"Made of Glass"
Released	March 2005 (UK) April 2005 (Australia) June 2005 (Europe)
Format	CD single (worldwide) Vinyl single (UK)
Recorded	London, England
Genre	Pop-dance
Length	3:59
Label	Parlophone Mushroom
Writer(s)	Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Lisa Cowling, Paul Woods, Nick Coler, Kylie Minogue
Producer(s)	Brian Higgins
Chart positions
#1 (Portugal, China) #3 (Hong Kong) #5 (Israel) #6 (Hungary, Spain, Ukraine, UK) #8 (Australia)
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"I Believe in You" (2004)	"Giving You Up" (2005)	"Sometime Samurai" (2005)

"Giving You Up" is a dance–pop song co-written and performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her second greatest hits album, Ultimate Kylie (2004). The song was produced by Brian Higgins and received mixed reviews from music critics. Typical for a Xenomania production and co-write, the song features multiple different sections joined together, rather than the more standard verse/chorus format of pop music. The song was released as the second single from Ultimate Kylie in the spring of 2005 and reached number-one in Portugal and in China, and the top ten in Australia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Spain, the Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, where it became Minogue's twenty-ninth top ten single. It was also her thirteenth consecutive top ten single, equaling her chart run of 1988-1991 (where her first thirteen singles all hit the UK top ten).

Contents 1 Music video 2 Chart performance 3 Charts 4 B-side 5 Formats and track listings 6 References

[edit] Music video

The song's music video was directed by Alex & Martin and was filmed in February 2005 in London, England.

The video features Minogue as a tall (oversized), vampy, blonde bombshell giantess roaming around the streets and clubs at night in London. She is dressed in black with a leather jacket and tight spandex-like pants. There are three sequences; the first features Minogue walking through a tunnel or Parking garage(actually the road tunnel under the Barbican Estate in central London), the second of her walking through the streets and the third of her in a club. Throughout the video Minogue meets different people. In a sequence on the streets, she dances in front of a taxi cab that has stopped to let her across a zebra crossing. Minogue then heads to a club where she meets a shy man who is obviously interested in her. In another scene on the streets Minogue walks past three men, turns around and begins to dance and sing to the them. Also on the streets, she walks past a man on a cell phone, but shows no interest in him. Every meeting is split up with solo scenes of Minogue walking through the streets and tunnel by herself. The video ends with additional scenes from the club intertwined with the ones from the street and tunnel.

[edit] Chart performance

On March 28, 2005, "Giving You Up" was released in the United Kingdom. The song became Minogue's twenty-ninth top ten single when it debuted at number six on the singles chart. The single spent a total of eight weeks in the top seventy-five and became Minogue's second consecutive release to reach the top five on the UK radio airplay charts, peaking at number three.

Outside the UK, the song was also successful. It reached the top ten in Hong Kong, Israel, Hungary, Spain and the Ukraine. In Australia, it was released on April 11, 2005 and debuted at number eight on the singles chart. The song became Minogue's third consecutive release to miss the top five in her native country of Australia. In Germany, "Giving You Up" reached the top-thirty, backed by its inclusion on the trailers for the American television series Desperate Housewives on the television channel ProSieben.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	8
China Singles Chart	1
Danish Singles Chart	12
Dutch Singles Chart	29
Finnish Singles Chart	14
German Singles Chart	27
Greece Singles Chart	13
Hong Kong Singles Chart	3
Hungary Singles Chart	6
Irish IRMA Singles Chart	20
Israeli Singles Chart	5
Italian Singles Chart	23
Mexican Singles Chart	45
Portuguese Singles Chart	1
Spanish Singles Chart	6
Swiss Singles Chart	40
Ukraine Singles Chart	6
UK Singles Chart	6
Eurochart Hot 100	8

[edit] B-side

"Made of Glass" was one of the tracks that Minogue recorded with Xenomania for her greatest hits album "Ultimate Kylie". The song, when first requested as a B-side, was denied because Minogue's co-writers thought the song was more than just a B-side and offered it to British pop-singer Rachel Stevens to record, but it was instead released by Minogue as it was originally intended. In 2004 a one minute clip of the song leaked onto the internet. This clip was then followed by a full, less polished version of the song. In Australia, "Made of Glass" was released as a double A-side along with "Giving You Up" due to the airplay it was receiving.

[edit] Formats and track listings

• EU CD1

1. "Giving You Up"
2. "Made Of Glass"

• EU CD2

1. "Giving You Up"
2. "Giving You Up" (Riton Re-Rub Dub)
3. "Giving You Up" (Alter Ego Remix)
4. "Giving You Up" (Video)

• Australian CD (Limited to 25.000 copies)

1. "Giving You Up"
2. "Made Of Glass"
3. "Giving You Up" (Riton Re-Rub Dub)
4. "Giving You Up" (Alter Ego Remix)
5. "Giving You Up" (Video)

[edit] References

• SloKylie.com - Slovenian Kylie Page. link. Last accessed on March 2, 2006. - Worldwide chart positions, sales and certifications.
• MixKylie.co.uk. link. Last accessed on March 2, 2006. - Worldwide chart positions, formats and track listings.
• Kylie.com - Official Site. link. Last accessed on March 2, 2006. - Release and chart information.