Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling
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"Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" is a dance-pop
for Minogue's 2003 album Neon Nights
. The song was released as the album's fourth single
in June 2003. The single reached the top twenty in multiple countries, and topped the club
charts in the United Kingdom
. Its music video
, directed by Phil Griffin
, features Minogue dancing on a beach with her lover and friends.
between "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" and Madonna
's 1985 single "Into the Groove
" was also issued. Inspired by the many bootleg recording
s being made in the UK, Minogue sent Madonna a copy of the mashup for her legal approval. Madonna, an artist who rarely approves of others using her music, called it "brilliant". Minogue and Della Sabina described Madonna's approval as "the biggest, most amazing thing". Writer(s)B. Alexandre, M. Joly, D. Minogue, T. Ronald, J. Theochari and C. Troillard
The music video
for "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" was directed by Phil Griffin
and filmed in 2003. The video begins with Minogue sitting and dancing on the porch of a colourfully lit beach house
. She is then shown sitting in a car and singing her lover. They are soon joined by a large group of dancing people on the beach. The video concludes with scenes of Minogue being filmed by her lover and performing a dance routine with two female backup dancers.
The music video was released commercially on various enhanced CD single
formats. It was also included on The Hits & Beyond
special edition companion DVD
(2006) and Dannii Minogue: The Video Collection (2007).
on 9 June 2003. The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart
on 21 June 2003 at number five. The following week, "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" fell to number eighteen and exited the chart in its ninth week of release. The track became Minogue's seventh Upfront Club Chart number one in the UK. n Ireland, the track reached number thirty-eight on the singles chart
. The song was also successful in Europe
. It reached the top fifty in Belgium
and France
.
In Australia, "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" debuted at number twenty-two on 27 July 2003 and remained on the chart for four weeks. In the United States
, the song reached number eight on the Billboard
Hot Dance Airplay
chart.
UK CD single
(LONCD478; Released )
12-inch single
(LONX478; Released 9 June 2003)
Australian CD single
(5046672922; Released 2003)
Official remixes
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
for Minogue's 2003 album Neon Nights
Neon Nights
Neon Nights is the fourth studio album by Australian dance-pop singer Dannii Minogue. It was released by London Records on 17 March 2003 and was primarily produced by Ian Masterson, Korpi & Blackcell, Neïmo and Terry Ronald...
. The song was released as the album's fourth single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
in June 2003. The single reached the top twenty in multiple countries, and topped the club
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
charts in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Its music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
, directed by Phil Griffin
Phil Griffin
Phil Griffin is President of United States cable news MSNBC. He was named President in July, 2008.-References:...
, features Minogue dancing on a beach with her lover and friends.
Mashup
A mashupMashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
between "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" and Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
's 1985 single "Into the Groove
Into the Groove
"Into the Groove" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan. It was featured on the 1985 re-issue of her second studio album, Like a Virgin, and released on July 23, 1985 by Sire Records as the album's fourth single outside North America...
" was also issued. Inspired by the many bootleg recording
Bootleg recording
A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...
s being made in the UK, Minogue sent Madonna a copy of the mashup for her legal approval. Madonna, an artist who rarely approves of others using her music, called it "brilliant". Minogue and Della Sabina described Madonna's approval as "the biggest, most amazing thing". Writer(s)B. Alexandre, M. Joly, D. Minogue, T. Ronald, J. Theochari and C. Troillard
Music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" was directed by Phil Griffin
Phil Griffin
Phil Griffin is President of United States cable news MSNBC. He was named President in July, 2008.-References:...
and filmed in 2003. The video begins with Minogue sitting and dancing on the porch of a colourfully lit beach house
Beach house
A beach house is a house on or near a beach, generally used as a vacation or second home for people who commute to the house on weekends or during vacation periods....
. She is then shown sitting in a car and singing her lover. They are soon joined by a large group of dancing people on the beach. The video concludes with scenes of Minogue being filmed by her lover and performing a dance routine with two female backup dancers.
The music video was released commercially on various enhanced CD single
CD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
formats. It was also included on The Hits & Beyond
The Hits & Beyond
The Hits & Beyond is a compilation album by Australian pop–dance singer Dannii Minogue, released by All Around the World Records on 19 June 2006. It was a compilation of greatest hits and new tracks...
special edition companion DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
(2006) and Dannii Minogue: The Video Collection (2007).
Chart performance
"Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" was officially released in the United Kingdom and IrelandIreland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
on 9 June 2003. The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
on 21 June 2003 at number five. The following week, "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" fell to number eighteen and exited the chart in its ninth week of release. The track became Minogue's seventh Upfront Club Chart number one in the UK. n Ireland, the track reached number thirty-eight on the singles chart
Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...
. The song was also successful in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. It reached the top fifty in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
In Australia, "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" debuted at number twenty-two on 27 July 2003 and remained on the chart for four weeks. In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, the song reached number eight on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Dance Airplay
Hot Dance Airplay
Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...
chart.
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling".UK CD single
(LONCD478; Released )
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Al Stones Radio version) – 3:33
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Groove" (Radio version) – 3:16
- "Goodbye Song" (Terry RonaldTerry RonaldTerry Ronald is a songwriter and producer from London who has worked with a variety of different singers and bands.-Biography:...
, Ian Masterson) – 3:50 - "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" music video
12-inch single
(LONX478; Released 9 June 2003)
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Stella Brown Vocal mix) – 6:49
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Groove" (Extended remix) – 5:06
- "I Begin to WonderI Begin to Wonder"I Begin to Wonder" is a dance-pop song written by Dannii Minogue, Jean-Claude Ades, Dacia Bridges and Olaf Kramolowsky for Minogue's 2003 album Neon Nights. The song was released as the album's second single in March 2003. The single reached the top twenty in multiple countries, and topped the...
" (DJ Bardot remix) – 7:48
Australian CD single
(5046672922; Released 2003)
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Al Stones Radio version) – 3:33
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Groove" (Radio version) – 3:16
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Stella Brown Vocal mix) – 6:49
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Groove" (Extended Bootleg mix) – 5:06
- "Goodbye Song" – 3:50
Official remixes
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Stella Brown dub mix) – 7:05
- "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (Jupiter Ace mix) – 5:40
Charts
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
22 |
| Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
43 |
| Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
66 |
| French Singles Chart | 40 |
| Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
38 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
5 |
| UK Upfront Club Chart | 1 |
| US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot Dance Airplay Hot Dance Airplay Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it... |
8 |
Year-End Charts
| Year | Country | Position |
|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
199 |
Personnel
The following people contributed to "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling":- Dannii Minogue – lead vocals
- Neimo, Al Stone – productionRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
- Etienne Colin – mixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
- Loolah – photographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...