What About Me

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"What About Me"
Single by Moving Pictures
from the album Days of Innocence
Released	1982
Format	CD single
Genre	Rock
Length	3:32
Label	Nettwerk
Writer(s)	Garry Frost, Frances Frost
Chart positions
#1 (Australia) #29 (United States)

"What About Me"
Single by Shannon Noll
from the album That's What I'm Talking About
Released	26 January 2004
Recorded	2003/2004
Genre	Rock, Pop
Length	3:21
Label	Sony BMG
Producer(s)	Bryon Jones, Craig Porells, Adam Reilly, Frances Swan, Gary Frost
Certification	4x platinum (ARIA)
Chart positions
#1 (Australia) #2 (Ireland) #10 (New Zealand)
Shannon Noll singles chronology
	"What About Me" (2004)	"Drive" (2004)

"What About Me" is a song written by Garry Frost and Frances Frost, first recorded by Australian rock band Moving Pictures from their album Days of Innocence. It was the band's first number-one single in Australia spending six consecutive weeks on the top. The success of the song led them to America where it became a hit, reaching number twenty-nine on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles. The song stayed in the U.S. charts for a long time, that it managed to make the Billboard 's top one hundred Pop Singles of 1983, at number eighty-eight^[1], a rare feat for a single with such a low peak position.

Contents 1 Shannon Noll version 2 Track listing 3 Charts 4 References

[edit] Shannon Noll version

Australian Idol series one runner-up Shannon Noll covered the song for his the debut album That's What I'm Talking About. He first performed the song on Australian Idol with the genre of #1 Hits, where he recieved positive comments by the judges and was also seen as one of the highlights of the debut season of Idol. The song was released as a CD single on January 29, 2004 where it debuted at number-one and stayed their for four weeks.It eventually sold in excess of 280,000 copies (certified 4x platinum) in Australia alone and became the highest selling single in Australia for 2004.

When released in Australia, demand for the single was unprecedented and the single debuted at the peak position on the ARIA charts the week of 2 February 2004, achieving 2x platinum accreditation (140,000 copies shipped) in its debut week, and knocking long term #1 "Hey Ya!" by Outkast from the top position on the singles chart.

Following several plays on Irish radio by a former Australian DJ, requests for "What About Me" in Ireland skyrocketed, and due to public demand, the Australian pressing of the single was shipped to Ireland and the initial shipment sold out within the first week of sale, prompting a further larger shipment to be made soon after. "What About Me" spent almost 6-months on the Ireland Top fifty singles chart and peaked at number-two for two weeks.

The video, directed by Australian director Anthony Rose, was the second music video from Shannon Noll. Set and filmed over two 38+ degree days in Shannon's home town of Condobolin, NSW, the video is essentially a snapshot of outback Australia and depicts Shannon's life in the small country town. The extras in the video for "What About Me" are all local Condobolin residents, including Shannon's two brothers. The music video was later popularly parodied by comedian Rove McManus on his television show "Rove [Live]".

[edit] Track listing

1. "What About Me"
2. "What About Me" (sterling remix)
3. "The Way That I Feel"

[edit] Charts

Chart (1982) 1	Peak Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	1
U.S. Billboard Pop Singles[2]	29
Chart (1989) 1	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2]	46
Chart (2004) 2	Peak Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	1
Ireland Singles Chart	2
New Zealand Singles Chart	10

• ¹ Moving Pictures.
• ² Shannon Noll.

[edit] References

Preceded by "Hey Ya!" by Outkast

ARIA (Australia) number one single February 1, 2004 - February 22, 2004

Succeeded by "All I Need Is You" by Guy Sebastian