"I Want You" is the first single released by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n pop group Savage Garden

Savage Garden

Savage Garden were an Australian pop rock performance and songwriting duo. Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones formed the group in Brisbane, Queensland in 1994...

, released in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in 1996 and Europe and America in 1997. It later appeared on their eponymous debut album, Savage Garden

Savage Garden (album)

Savage Garden is the eponymous debut album from Australian pop duo Savage Garden. It was released on March 4, 1997. The album sold more than 18 million copies worldwide...

. The single hit number one in Canada, and peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 and the ARIA Singles Chart. The single also peaked at #11 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 ...

. In November 1998, the single was re-released in the UK, following the success of "Truly Madly Deeply

Truly Madly Deeply

"Truly Madly Deeply" is a song by Australian pop band Savage Garden, released as a single in March 1997. Written by band-mates Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones, the song is a reworking of a song called "Magical Kisses" that the pair wrote together long before recording began on their debut album....

" and "To the Moon and Back

To the Moon and Back

"To the Moon and Back" is a single by Savage Garden from their debut album Savage Garden. One of the band's most popular songs, it deals with feelings of alienation from the modern world and the desire to find romantic love during adolescence...

". This release peaked at #12.

Music video

Two music videos were released for the song, a low-budget version in Australia and a second, higher-budget version for America and international markets. The first video, released in 1996, showed the band performing in a room full of disco lights and Darren Hayes singing on the back of a moving vehicle. The second video, released in 1997, features the band in a recording studio with an enormous television. A red-headed woman watches the production through another TV in some sort of warehouse. During the bridge of the song, she gets sucked into the television, but returns to the warehouse at the start of the next chorus.

Track listings

• Australian CD1

1. "I Want You" – 3:53
2. "Fire Inside the Man" – 4:11

• Australian CD2

1. "I Want You" (radio version) – 3:54
2. "I Want You" (Flu Club Mix) – 6:22
3. "I Want You" (Pee Wee Club Mix) – 6:30
4. "I Want You" (Flu Radio Edit) – 3:44
5. "I Want You" (Flu Midnight Mix) – 6:24

• American CD1

1. "I Want You" – 3:53
2. "Tears of Pearls" – 3:46

• American CD2

1. "I Want You" (album version) – 3:53
2. "I Want You" (Jason Nevins' Radio Remix) – 3:37
3. "I Want You" (Bastone Club Mix) – 8:30
4. "I Want You" (I Need I Want Mix) – 7:55
5. "I Want You" (Hot Radio Mix) – 3:33

• 1997 UK CD

1. "I Want You" (album version)
2. "I Want You" (Xenomania Funky Mix)
3. "I Want You" (Xenomania 12" Club Mix)
4. "I Want You" (Sharp Miami Mix)

• 1998 UK CD1

1. "I Want You" (Bascombe Mix)
2. "I Want You" (Sash! Radio Edit)
3. "To The Moon And Back" (karaoke version)

• 1998 UK CD2

1. "I Want You" (Sash! Extended Mix)
2. "I Want You" (Sharp Miami Mix)
3. "I Want You" (Xenomania Funky Mix)

• European CD1 / Austrian CD single

1. "I Want You" (album version)
2. "I Want You" (Hot Radio Mix)

• European CD2

1. "I Want You" (album version)
2. "I Want You" (Pee Wee Club Mix)
3. "Tears of Pearls"
4. "Mine (And You Could Be)"

Peak positions

Chart (1996/1997)	Peak position
Australian ARIA 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...  Singles Chart	4
Austrian Ö3 Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...  Singles Chart	14
Belgian Flemish Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  Singles Chart	27
Belgian Walloon Ultratop 40 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...  Singles Chart	33
Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....	1
Dutch MegaChart Top 50 MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...  Singles Chart	38
French SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...  Singles Chart	15
New Zealand RIANZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...  Singles Chart	13
Swedish Singles Chart	11
Swiss Singles Chart	21
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 ...	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	4
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)	Position
Australia ARIA Chart	12

Chart (1997)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	22