| "I Got You" | ||||
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| Single by Split Enz | ||||
| from the album True Colours | ||||
| B-side | "Double Happy" | |||
| Released | 21 January 1980 | |||
| Recorded | November 1979[1] | |||
| Studio | Armstrong Studios, Melbourne | |||
| Genre | New wave[2] | |||
| Length | 3:24 | |||
| Label | Mushroom Records, Melbourne | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Neil Finn | |||
| Producer(s) | David Tickle | |||
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"I Got You" is a song by New Zealand rock band Split Enz. It was released as a single on 21 January 1980 by Mushroom Records in Australia and New Zealand, and August 1980 by A&M internationally, as the first single from their breakthrough album True Colours. Written by co-lead singer Neil Finn, who did not initially believe it to be a hit, it became the band's most commercially successful song, topping the charts in Australasia (spending eight weeks at number-one in Australia) and placing in the top 20 of the British and Canadian charts. By July 1980, it had become the biggest selling single in Australian history.[3]
The song was rated #11 on the Australasian Performing Right Association's Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time list.[4]
- ^ Billboard (30 January 1982). "Global Productions". Billboard. New York City: Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group.
- ^ Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave? : Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s (PDF). University of Michigan Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3.
- ^ "Points West" (PDF). Cash Box. 19 July 1980. p. 14. Retrieved 3 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
- ^ "APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time". www.sergent.com.au. Retrieved 5 July 2022.