Close to You (Fun Factory song)

"Close to You"
Single by Fun Factory
from the album NonStop
ReleasedMarch 1994
GenreEurodance
Length3:36
Label
  • Scorpio Music
  • 12INC
  • Curb Edel Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Bülent Aris
  • Toni Cottura
Fun Factory singles chronology
"Groove Me"
(1993) 		"Close to You"
(1994) 		"Take Your Chance"
(1994)
Music video
"Close to You" on YouTube

"Close to You" is a song by German Eurodance band Fun Factory, released in March 1994 by various labels as the second single from the band's debut-album, NonStop (1994). The song is written by Bülent Aris, Rainer Kesselbauer and Toni Cottura, while Aris and Cottura produced it. It received positive reviews from music critics, peaking at number-one on the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart and at number 22 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Additionally, the single peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. In Europe, it reached number 19 in Germany and number 97 in the UK. Its music video was directed by Swedish director Stefan Berg[1] and filmed at a quarry. It was A-listed on Germany's VIVA in June 1994.[2] "Close to You" uses the same melody as the 1993 hit single "Hold On" by German group Loft.[3]

  1. ^ "Fun Factory - Close To You". YouTube. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Station Reports > VIVA TV/Cologne" (PDF). Music & Media. 4 June 1994. p. 21. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Loft Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 27 January 2020.