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"Kids" is a song by Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
, featuring Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
, released as the second single from Sing When You're Winning
Sing When You're Winning

Sing When You're Winning is the third British solo album by England pop singer Robbie Williams, released in 2000. Following his last album, I've Been Expecting You in 1998, and in the middle of promotion and touring in 1999, Robbie found time to start the work on what would be his third studio album....
, Robbie's fourth album. It was released in October 2000. Williams and then songwriting partner Guy Chambers
Guy Chambers

Guy Chambers is an England songwriter and record producer best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams....
 co-wrote the song for Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. Williams liked the song enough to turn it into a duet. It is also a track on Kylie Minogue's Light Years album and the third single released from that album. A different version of this song with a spoken fadeout rap by Williams appeared on his album Sing When You're Winning.

song became a smash hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number-two and selling over 200,000 copies being certified Silver by the BPI
British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade group. Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four 'major' record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies representing literally thousands of labels....
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"Kids" is a song by Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
, featuring Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
, released as the second single from Sing When You're Winning
Sing When You're Winning

Sing When You're Winning is the third British solo album by England pop singer Robbie Williams, released in 2000. Following his last album, I've Been Expecting You in 1998, and in the middle of promotion and touring in 1999, Robbie found time to start the work on what would be his third studio album....
, Robbie's fourth album. It was released in October 2000. Williams and then songwriting partner Guy Chambers
Guy Chambers

Guy Chambers is an England songwriter and record producer best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams....
 co-wrote the song for Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. Williams liked the song enough to turn it into a duet. It is also a track on Kylie Minogue's Light Years album and the third single released from that album. A different version of this song with a spoken fadeout rap by Williams appeared on his album Sing When You're Winning.

Chart success

The song became a smash hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number-two and selling over 200,000 copies being certified Silver by the BPI
British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade group. Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four 'major' record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies representing literally thousands of labels....
. The track also broke into the top ten in several other countries including New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 and Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 as well as hitting the top twenty in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, being certified Gold in the latter for sales over the 35,000 copies.

The lyrics, although penned by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers, refer back to a previous hit of Kylies, Give Me Just a Little More Time
Give Me Just a Little More Time

"Give Me Just a Little More Time" is the debut single for Chairmen of the Board , released in 1970 through Capitol Records on Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus Records label....
 - Kylie sings 'you're dancing with the chairman of the board', Chairmen of the Board
Chairmen of the Board

Chairmen of the Board is a Detroit, Michigan based soul music musical ensemble active mostly in the 1970s, that is still touring today....
 being the group that originally released the song before Kylie. "Chairman of the Board" is also a nickname for Robbie's lifelong idol, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
.

Live performances

Williams and Minogue have only performed the song together on a few occasions. The most well known being at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards
MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers consider the best in music....
, they have also performed it on Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running United Kingdom UK Singles Chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006....
 twice and at one of Williams' concerts in Manchester in 2001.

Both artists perform the song regularly when touring, one of their backing singers usually tends to sing it along with them. On Minogue's Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 frontman Bono
Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
 took Williams' place and performed it with her. Minogue's sister Dannii
Dannii Minogue

Danielle Minogue is an Australian Singing, occasional actress, and TV Personality. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian talent show show "Young Talent Time", and in the soap opera Home and Away, before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s....
 has joined her to perform the song on a couple of shows in Minogue's Showgirl tour.

Formats and tracklisting

UK CD1 (Released October 9, 2000)
  1. "Kids" - 4:44 (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  2. "John's Gay" - 3:40 (Robbie Williams)
  3. "Often" - 2:46 (Robbie Williams)
  4. "Kids" enhanced video


UK CD2 (Released October 9, 2000)
  1. "Kids" - 4:44 (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  2. "Karaoke Star" - 4:10 (Robbie Williams)
  3. "Kill Me Or Cure Me" - 2:14 (Robbie Williams)
  4. "Kids" enhanced video
International CD1 (Released October 16, 2000)
  1. "Kids" (radio edit) - 4:20 (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  2. "John's Gay" - 3:40 (Robbie Williams)
  3. "Often" - 2:46 (Robbie Williams)
  4. "Kids" enhanced video


International CD2 (Released October 16, 2000)
  1. "Kids" - 4:44 (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  2. "Karaoke Star" - 4:10 (Robbie Williams)
  3. "Kill Me Or Cure Me" - 2:14 (Robbie Williams)
  4. "Kids" enhanced video
Promo single (Released September 4, 2000)
  1. "Kids" (radio edit) (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  2. "Kids" (Robbie rap edit) (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
  3. "Kids" (karaoke version)
  4. "Kids" (album version) (Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue)
Unofficial remixes
  1. "Kids" (Saint Ken remix)

Certifications and sales


CountryCertification (If Any)Sales/shipments
AustraliaGold35,000+
United KingdomSilver200,000+


Charts

Chart (2000)Peak
Position
UK Singles Chart2
New Zealand Singles Chart3
Mexican Singles Chart10
Australian Singles Chart14
Dutch Singles Chart17
Swedish Singles Chart24
Swiss Singles Chart29
German Singles Chart39