"Don't You Want Me" is a dance / electronic song recorded by British DJ and producer Francis Wright, known under the pseudonym of Felix. It was released as his debut single from his album #1 in late 1992. Musically, it samples Jomanda

Jomanda (group)

Jomanda was an American female R&B/house vocal trio from New Jersey. Members included Joanne Thomas, Cheri Williams and Renee Washington. They had several hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart during the first half of the 1990s, including "Got a Love for You," which reached #1 in 1991...

's "Don't You Want My Love" and credited as Felix featuring Jomanda (co-produced by Rollo

Rollo Armstrong

Rollo Armstrong is one half of the music producers/remixers team Rollo and Sister Bliss and is a founding member of the electronic music group Faithless.-Early life:...

 and Red Jerry). It went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart in 1992. In 1995 and 1996, the song charted again, but in remixed form.

This song is largely considered to be the track that launched the hardbag

Hardbag

Hardbag was a genre of electronic dance music popular in the mid 1990s. Having evolved out of the handbag house scene in 1993-1994, the genre enjoyed massive, albeit brief, popularity, with several hardbag releases achieving positions in the upper echelons of the UK chart...

 explosion. It appears on the compilation The Best Dance Album in the World... Ever!

The Best Dance Album in the World... Ever!

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in remixed form, and was used in the episode "New Girl" of the TV series The Office

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. It was also famously featured in St George, a 1997 Tango Blackcurrant advertisement for television. On the single re-release, the Tango Blackcurrant logo even appeares.

Cover versions

A remix of the song "Don't You Want Me: Pugilist Mix" formed the soundtrack to the multi award-winning TV commercial for Blackcurrant Tango.

In 2005, Crazy Frog

Crazy Frog

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 made its own version of the song, available on the album More Crazy Hits.

"Don't You Want Me" was sampled by Meck

Meck (musician)

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 in 2007 to provide the majority of the music for his single "Feels Like Home". In 2008, Madonna used elements of Meck's version during "Like a Prayer

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" on the Sticky & Sweet Tour

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.

The song was also covered by Belgian Jazz musician Jef Neve as part of the soundtrack for the movie adaptation of Dimitri Verhulst

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's De Helaasheid der Dingen.

In 2011, David Guetta

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 used the track for the basis of the radio remix for Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

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's single "Sweat (Wet)."

Track listings

• 12" maxi

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:58
2. "Don't You Want Me" (red Jerry's holiday mix) – 4:39
3. "Don't You Want Me" (fierce mix) – 5:07

• 12" maxi

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:58
2. "Don't You Want Me" (original) – 4:43
3. "Yes You Do" – 4:47

• 7" single / CD single

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix edit) – 3:11
2. "Don't You Want Me" (original mix) – 4:53

• CD maxi

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix edit) – 3:11
2. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:58
3. "Don't You Want Me" (red Jerry's holiday mix) – 4:39
4. "Don't You Want Me" (fierce mix) – 5:07

• CD maxi

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix edit) – 3:11
2. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:58
3. "Don't You Want Me" (original mix) – 4:53
4. "Don't You Want Me" (red Jerry's holiday mix) – 4:40
5. "Don't You Want Me" (fierce mix) – 5:06

• Cassette

1. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj Mix edit)
2. "Don't You Want Me" (original mix)
3. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj Mix edit)
4. "Don't You Want Me" (original mix)

• CD maxi - 1995 remixes

1. "Don't You Want Me (Patrick Prins remix edit) – 3:23
2. "Don't You Want Me (hooj mix edit) – 3:11
3. "Don't You Want Me (Patrick Prins remix) – 6:17
4. "Don't You Want Me (hooj mix) – 5:53
5. "Don't You Want Me (DJ Professor mix) – 7:54
6. "Don't You Want Me (candy girls remix) – 7:30

• 12" maxi - 1995 remixes

1. "Don't You Want Me" (Patrick Prins remix) – 6:17
2. "Don't You Want Me" (candy girls remix) – 7:30
3. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:53
4. "Don't You Want Me" (DJ Professor mix) – 7:54

• CD maxi - 1996 remixes

1. "Don't You Want Me" (remix '96 Pugilist mix) – 3:40
2. "Stars" (Felix mix edit) – 3:37
3. "It Will Make Me Crazy" (big mix edit) – 3:52
4. "Don't You Want Me" (hooj mix) – 5:58

Peak positions

Chart (1992/93)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	17
Austrian Singles Chart	3
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...	3
Finnish Singles Chart	16
French SNEP Singles Chart	4
German Singles Chart	2
Irish Singles Chart	7
Norwegian Singles Chart	5
Swedish Singles Chart	4
Swiss Singles Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	6
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1
Chart (1995)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart 1	10
Chart (1996)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart 2	17

¹ 1995 remixes

² 1996 remixes

End of year charts

End of year chart (1992)	Position
Dutch Top 40	27
End of year chart (1993)	Position
Swiss Singles Chart	34

Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
France	Silver	1992	125,000
Germany	Gold	1992	150,000

Chart successions