"Cheeky Song" is a 2002 single by Popstars The Rivals

Popstars The Rivals

Popstars The Rivals was a British television talent show series that was broadcast on ITV1 in late 2002. It was the second UK series of the international Popstars franchise...

contestants The Cheeky Girls

The Cheeky Girls

The Cheeky Girls are a pop duo consisting of twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. After appearing as auditionees in Popstars: The Rivals, they achieved success in the charts with four top ten hits between 2002 and 2004...

. The song was released while the show was still running, on 9 December 2002, and was later included on their debut album PartyTime. It spent four non-consecutive weeks at number two in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 in December 2002 and January 2003. The song was also successful in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and Japan where it hit the top ten; however, it was a failure in Australia where it entered the chart at a peak of 59, and did not chart at all in either Canada

Canada

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 or the United States. The single would become one of the most popular songs to come out of a reality show and sold close to a million copies. Despite its success, the song was voted the worst pop record of all time in a Channel 4

Channel 4

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 poll, in January 2004.

Track listings

CD single

1. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (radio edit) – 3:21
2. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (clubstar remix) – 6:09

CD maxi

1. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (radio edit) – 3:21
2. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (Christmas remix) – 3:30
3. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (clubstar remix) – 6:09
4. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (LMC remix) – 5:18
5. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (video)

12" maxi

1. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (radio edit)
2. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (extended original mix)
3. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (LMC remix)
4. "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" (clubstar remix)

Peak positions

Chart (2002/03)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	59
Belgium (Flanders) Singles Chart	4
Belgium (Wallonia) Singles Chart	50
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...	6
Finnish Singles Chart	16
French SNEP Singles Chart	19
German Singles Chart	52
Irish IRMA Singles Chart	12
Japan Singles Chart	6
Swedish Singles Chart	28
Swiss Singles Chart	73
UK Singles Chart	2

End of year charts

End of year chart (2003)	Position
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	33
Dutch Top 40	98

Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
UK	Silver	2 December 2002	200,000