"Kiss Me" is a song recorded by Sixpence None the Richer and released on their self-titled album in 1997. The song was a massive success worldwide, it reached number four on both the UK Singles Chart and the Canadian Singles Chart, and number one on the Australian singles chart, making it the group's highest-charting single across the world.

The song is also the group's best-selling single in the U.S. The single reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, stuck behind Cher's "Believe", TLC's "No Scrubs", and Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca". Even though it only reached number two, the song did have great longevity on the chart, spending twenty-four weeks on the top ten and thirty-five weeks on the chart. In the end of 1999, Billboard ranked the song as the sixth best selling-single of 1999, ahead of a number of other #1 hits, and the second highest rank for a song that didn't made it to the top, behind Whitney Houston, Faith Evans and Kelly Price's "Heartbreak Hotel", which ranked at number four.

Single release [link]

A year after the release of the album Sixpence None the Richer, the teen movie She's All That and the popular teen soap Dawson's Creek played "Kiss Me" (with tie-in videos), which went on to be a hit single from the sound track.

Music videos [link]

The original music video pays tribute to French filmmaker François Truffaut and his film Jules et Jim, made in black and white and recreating many of the classic scenes from the film. Two alternate versions of the video were also released later, which featured the band sitting on a park bench, performing and watching scenes from She's All That or Dawson's Creek on a portable television or projected on an outdoor screen. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook appeared in the She's All That version of the video.

The Dawson's Creek version of the video became VH1's number-one video for the entire month of May 1999.

New Found Glory version [link]

New Found Glory's music video revolves around a large group of teenagers who construct a tree house out of mattresses, and throw a raucous garden party involving pillow fights and kissing, while the members of the band, along with the members of Paramore perform the song around them. While the bands perform, a young man, played by drummer Chase Dodds of the band Classic Addict, sets off on a mission to kiss as many girls as possible during the party, keeping a tally on his inner left forearm in black pen. After narrowly avoiding kissing a man (whom he mistakes for a girl because of his long hair), Chase attempts to kiss Paramore's lead singer, Hayley Williams, only to have her recognize the tally on his arm, and slap him in the face, knocking him to the ground. He is then set upon by all the girls he has kissed at the party, who then proceed to strip him of his shirt, and tie him to a nearby tree with duct tape. One of the girls tapes his mouth shut, before writing "kiss me" on his chest in black pen. The girls then rejoin the party, leaving Chase tied to the tree.

In this version, to make it more suitable to be sung from a male point of the view, the line "You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress" is changed to "I'll wear those shoes and you will wear that dress."

Track listing [link]

US Christian retail single

1. "Kiss Me" (radio remix)
2. "Kiss Me" (album edit)
3. "Sad But True"
4. "Kiss Me" (live in Hollywood)

US mainstream retail single

1. "Kiss Me" (radio remix)
2. "Love"

UK CD single

1. "Kiss Me" (radio remix)
2. "Sad But True"
3. "Kiss Me" (live in Hollywood)

Japanese CD single

1. "Kiss Me" (Japanese version)
2. "Kiss Me" (LP version)
3. "Kiss Me" (acoustic version)
4. "I Can't Catch You" (Ben Grosse Remix)
5. "Love" (Ben Grosse Remix)
6. "Kiss Me" (instrumental edit)

Charts [link]

Chart successions [link]

Covers [link]

The song has been covered by Avril Lavigne, Jason Walker, UK R&B singer, Nathan, Lava Lava on their album "Tour Demo", and New Found Glory on their album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II. The New Found Glory version has been released as a single with a music video.^[15] It has also been covered by Singaporean Olivia Ong on her album A Girl Meets Bossa Nova 2, and by American Jewel.^{[citation needed]} Natalie Imbruglia has also done a cover of "Kiss Me", though it was not released. A cover by Debbie Scott appeared in the game Pump It Up! A cover of the song was put in the game Karaoke Revolution. Korean artists have also covered the song, namely Jessica Jung from Girls' Generation and IU. The song was covered on the eighth series of The X Factor by Janet Devlin in Week 7.

References [link]