"Watching You" is the third song 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 band Rogue Traders

Rogue Traders

Rogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many...

 from their second album Here Come the Drums

Here Come the Drums

Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly...

. The song was released as their second single

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 in the United Kingdom

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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...

 in late 2006.

This electropop dance track is based around the distinctive guitar

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 riff

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 from the 1979 hit

Hit parade

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 song "My Sharona

My Sharona

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" by The Knack

The Knack

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Chart performance

The song was their fourth top ten hit in Australia and their second top forty hit in the UK. It debuted into the Australian Singles Chart on 6 February 2006 at number seven. On its second week in the chart it moved up to its peak position at number five and stayed there for two weeks. It then stayed in the top ten for another three weeks and re-entered two weeks later at number eight moving up three places from eleven. It fell slowly down the charts not making a rise and after twelve weeks it fell out of the top fifty after spending twenty weeks in the charts and accrediting Gold by ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

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The song was released in the UK on 16 October 2006 and entered the charts on 28 October 2006 at number thirty-three. The song only spent two weeks in the chart after falling out of the charts at number fifty-eight.

Track listing

Australian CD Single

1. "Watching You" - 3:29
2. "Watching You" (Dirty South
   Dirty South (DJ)
   Dragan Roganović , better known by his stage name Dirty South,is a Serbian-born Australian DJ, remixer and record producer based in Melbourne.-Biography:...
   
    Vocal Mix) - 7:00
3. "Watching You" (James Ash's 'Take Me Down' Club Mix) - 6:45
4. "Watching You" (Dirty South Dub) - 7:00
5. "Way to Go!" (James Ash remix) - 6:41

UK CD Single # 1

1. Watching You (Olli Collins Remix)
2. Watching You (Radio Edit)

UK CD Single # 2

1. "Watching You" (Olli Collins Remix)
2. "Watching You" (Dirty South Dub)
3. "Watching You" (Chris Lake Mix)
4. "Watching You" (Radio Edit)
5. "Watching You" (James Ash Remix)
6. "Watching You" (Video)

Australian Promo # 1

1. "Watching You" (Radio Edit)

Australian Promo # 2

1. "Watching You" (James Ash’s ‘Take Me Down’ Club Mix)
2. "Watching You" (Dirty South Vocal Mix)
3. "Watching You" (Dirty South Dub)

UK Promo # 1

1. "Watching You" (Original Radio Edit)
2. "Watching You" (Chris Lake's Downtown Vocal)
3. "Watching You" (Dirty South Vocal Mix)
4. "Watching You" (Olli Collins & Fred Portelli Remix)
5. "Watching You" (Chris Lake's Downtown Dub)
6. "Watching You" (Dirty South Dub)

UK Promo # 2

1. Watching You (Original Radio Edit)

UK Promo # 3

1. Watching You (James Ash's 'Take Me Down' Club Mix)

UK 12” Vinyl # 1

• "Watching You" (Chris Lake Mix)
• "Watching You" (Dirty South Dub)
• "Watching You" (Radio Edit)

UK 12” Vinyl # 2

• "Watching You" (Dirty South Vocal Mix)
• "Watching You" (James Ash's "Take Me Down" Club Mix)

UK 12” Vinyl # 3

• "Watching You" (Chris Lake's Downtown Vocal)
• "Watching You" (Olli Collins + Fred Portelli Remix)

Release history

Country	Date
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...
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...

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... Singles Chart	5
Ireland Singles Chart	46
UK Singles Chart	33