"Honey to the Bee" is a song from Billie Piper

Billie Piper

Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then switched to acting. She started in acting and dancing and was talent spotted at the Sylvia Young stage school by Smash Hits magazine who wanted a "face" for their magazine...

 released in 1999. It peaked at #3 in the UK Singles Chart and was released on March 15, 1999. In January 2007, the song was championed by Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

 DJ Chris Moyles

Chris Moyles

Christopher David Moyles is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4....

 as part of an experiment to test out the new UK Singles Chart rules that came into effect that month, which prompted the song to reach number 17 in the UK Singles Chart on 21 January 2007 and number 11 in the UK Download Chart.

Music video

The music video is a partially-animated video. Billie is seen singing inside a giant flower and on the beach throughout the video. It was filmed in Miami just before Billie's promotional tour in America.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Honey to the Bee".

International CD Single

(SINCD8; Released )

1. "Honey to the Bee" (Radio edit) – 3:39
2. "Call Me" – 3:58
3. "What's Missing" – 3:46

UK Special Edition CD 2 / Australian / New Zealand CD Single

(SINDX8; Released )

1. "Honey to the Bee" (Radio edit) – 3:39
2. "Honey to the Bee" (Acoustic version) – 4:24
3. "Honey to the Bee" (Delakota mix) – 5:00
4. "Honey to the Bee" music video

UK Cassette

(SINC8; Released )

Side 1

1. "Honey to the Bee" (Radio Edit) - 3:39
2. "She Wants You" (7" Disco) - 3:29

Side 2

1. Interview - 7:10

UK Promo CD

(SINSALES8 ; Released )

1. "Honey To The Bee" (Radio Edit) - 3:39
2. "Honey To The Bee" (Acoustic Version) - 4:24
3. "Honey To The Bee" (Delakota Mix) - 5:00
4. "Call Me" - 3:58
5. "What's Missing" - 3:46
6. "She Wants You" (7" Disco Mix) - 3:29

Charts

Charts (1999)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	3
New Zealand Singles Chart	5
Australian Singles Chart	6
Irish Singles Chart	25

Charts (2007)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	17

Play version

In June 2003, the Swedish

Sweden

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 girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 Play covered

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 the song on their third album Replay. Play's version featured a trip hop

Trip hop

Trip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...

 beat and soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

vocals.