"Because We Want To" is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song performed by British

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...

 singer Billie

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...

. The song was written by Wendy Page

Skin Games

Skin Games were a British pop/rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Critically acclaimed as artists, they never gained commercial success, and broke up after just one album release, The Blood Rush, released in 1989. The soaring vocal style of lead singer Wendy Page has been compared with...

, Jim Marr, D. Rambo and J. Richmond, and produced by Page and Marr for Billie's debut album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 Honey to the B

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 . Billie was the first and youngest British female artist to have a first single debut at #1 on the UK pop charts.The album spawned a number of hits singles including 'Girlfriend', 'She Wants You', the anthemic 'Because...

(1998). It was released as Billie's first 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...

 on 29 June 1998 and reached the top ten in Ireland

Ireland

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...

 and Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. The single reached number one making Piper the youngest artist to ever debut at number one. It was the official song of the 1999 Women's World Cup.

Music video

The video starts in a run-down street in London, where the ground is violently shaking. The reason is soon seen: A UFO is flying just metres from the ground. Billie is then seen teleporting from the ship and down onto the street. She starts singing and dancing and soon gathers huge crowds of supporters. In the video, cut scenes of Billie and her friends walking down sidestreets are seen. In one scene, she melts a bin which transforms into a dancing humanoid and in another scene she graffiti

Graffiti

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s "Billie" on a billboard and an animated character then jumps from the billboard and dances along with the humanoid made from the melted bin. Later in the video, she and her friends sneak into a warehouse and have a party.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Because We Want To".

International CD Single

(SINCD2; Released )

1. "Because We Want To" (Radio Mix)
2. "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T.
   G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T.
   "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." is a song released by American R&B duo Changing Faces in 1997 from their second album All Day, All Night. The single hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart....
   
   "
3. "Because We Want To" (Sgt. Rock 'Old Skool' Mix-Edit)
4. "Because We Want To" (Tall Paul vs Billie Mix)

UK Special Edition CD 2

(SINDX2; Released )

1. "Because We Want To" (Radio Mix)
2. "Because We Want To" (Street Mix Feat. Sweet P)
3. "Because We Want To" (Instrumental)
4. "Because We Want To" (PC Video)

UK Cassette

(SINC2; Released )

Side 1

1. "Because We Want To" (Radio Mix)
2. "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T."

Side 2

1. "Because We Want To" (Tall Paul vs Billie Mix)

UK Promo 12" Single-Sided Vinyl

(SINTDJ 2; Released 1998)

• A1"Because We Want To" (Tall Paul vs Billie Mix)

Release history

Country	Date
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...
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

Charts

Because We Want To made 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...

 the youngest artist to ever debut at number one, aged 15. Read more on the Billie Piper / Jimmy Osmond Charting Confusion. However, Helen Shapiro still holds the record as the youngest solo female singer to ever have topped the UK charts. During August 1961, Shapiro topped the UK charts with her second EMI/Columbia single release entitled "You Don't Know" at the age of 14 years.

Chart (1998)	Peak 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 ...	1
Swedish Singles Chart	8
New Zealand Singles Chart 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...	9
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...	9
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....	14
Australian ARIA 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...	19