{{Short description|1994 single by Cappella}} {{Other uses|You and Me (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox song | name = U & Me | cover = U & Me - single.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Cappella | album = U Got 2 Know | released = {{start date|1994|6|6|df=y}} | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = * Eurodance<ref name="music&media">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-05-21.pdf|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=21|date=21 May 1994|page=20|access-date=26 February 2018}}</ref> * Italo dance<ref name="jamesmasterton">{{cite web|last=Masterton|first=James|title=Week Ending June 18th 1994|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1994/week-ending-june-18th-1994|website=Chart Watch UK|date=12 June 1994|access-date=8 September 2021|author-link=James Masterton}}</ref> * hip house<ref name="jameshamilton">{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-06-11.pdf |title= Dj directory |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental insert) |date= 11 June 1994 |page= 7 |access-date= 17 April 2021 |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}}</ref> | length = 3:17 | label = Media | writer = * C. Piccinelli * Diego Leoni * Gianfranco Bortolotti * G. Elmzoom * L. Cittadini * Ricardo Overman | producer = Gianfranco Bortolotti | prev_title = Move On Baby | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Move It Up | next_year = 1994 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|OD8nrqhorHg|"U & Me"}}}} }}
"'''U & Me'''" is a song by Italian Eurodance group Cappella, released on 6 June 1994, by label Media, as the sixth single from their second studio album, ''U Got 2 Know'' (1994).<ref>{{cite web|title=Cappella - U & Me|url=http://www.eurokdj.com/search/disk.php?ID=1129|publisher=eurokdj.com|access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> Co-written and produced by Gianfranco Bortolotti, it features vocals by Vikki Sheperd, sampled from her song "Love Has Changed My Mind".{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The single experienced success in many European countries, particularly in Finland, where it peaked at number one for two weeks. It was also a top-10 hit in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. The accompanying music video, directed by Juan Kerr, was filmed in London and A-listed on music television channels, such as Germany's VIVA.
==Critical reception== In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote, "The new hit is more of the same, Italian dance which will probably find as much favour and annoy as many people as the last one."<ref name="jamesmasterton"/> Pan-European magazine ''Music & Media'' noted that "a synth buzzes like a swarm of bees approaching with queen bee singer Kelly ahead of it. The sting of this Euro dance song is of course the catchy melody line and the simple yell."<ref name="music&media"/> Alan Jones from ''Music Week'' gave it a score of four out of five, saying, "Less distinctive than recent Cappella outings, this actually resembles Maxx's 'Get-A-Way', with similar synth scoring and a passable rap. But since that record is top five and Cappella have had three consecutive Top 10 hits, it is not hard to see where this is going."<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Alan |last= Jones |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-06-04.pdf |title= Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles |magazine= Music Week |date= 4 June 1994 |page= 12 |access-date= 17 April 2021}}</ref> James Hamilton from the ''Record Mirror'' Dance Update declared it as a "{{'}}''you and me forever''{{'}} girls prodded surging cheesy Italo hip house galloper" in his weekly dance column.<ref name="jameshamilton"/>
==Chart performance== "U & Me" peaked at number one in Finland for two weeks in the beginning of July 1994.<ref name="finland">"U & Me" spent 2 weeks at number one on the Finnish singles chart in July 1994. * Week 1: {{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-02.pdf|title=Top 10 Sales in Europe: Finland|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=27|date=2 July 1994|page=20}} * Week 2: {{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-09.pdf|title=Top 10 Sales in Europe: Finland|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=28|date=9 July 1994|page=19}}</ref> It entered the top 10 also in Italy (6), the Netherlands (3), and the UK,<ref name="italy">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-23.pdf|title=Top 10 Sales in Europe|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=30|date=23 July 1994|page=13|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref><ref name="netherlands"/> as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it entered on 25 June and peaked at number seven on 9 July.<ref name="eurocharthot100">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-09.pdf|title=Eurochart Hot 100|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=28|date=9 July 1994|page=17|access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref> In the UK, "U & Me" reached number 10 during its third week on the UK Singles Chart, on 26 June,<ref name="uk"/> and it also reached number 10 on the ''Music Week'' Dance Singles chart.<ref name="UKdance">{{cite magazine|url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-06-25.pdf |title= Dance Singles |magazine= Music Week |date= 25 June 1994 |page= 28 |access-date= 23 April 2021}}</ref> Additionally, it was a top-20 hit in Austria (15), Belgian Flanders (14), Denmark (15), Germany (14), Sweden (15), and Switzerland (13). Outside Europe, it charted in Australia, where it peaked at number 76 on the ARIA singles chart.
===Airplay=== The song topped the European Dance Radio Chart for five weeks, becoming Europe's most played dance song on radio these weeks.<ref name="europeandanceradio">{{cite magazine|title=European Dance Radio Top 25|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-23.pdf|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=30|date=23 July 1994|page=17|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> It ended up with a position as number five on the EDR year-end chart.<ref name="europeandanceradioyearend">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-12-24.pdf|title=1994 in Review: European Dance Radio|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=52|page=8|date=24 December 1994|access-date=28 February 2024}}</ref> "U & Me" also entered the European airplay chart Border Breakers by ''Music & Media'' at number 16 on 18 June 1994 due to crossover airplay in West Central-, Northwest-, North- and Northeast-Europe, and peaked at the fifth position on 16 July.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Karen|last=Holt|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-11-19.pdf|title=Border Breakers: Monitoring The Impact Of Euro Talent|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=47|date=19 November 1994|page=20|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, the song reached number 38 on the UK Airplay chart on 18 June 1994.<ref name="UKairplay">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-06-18.pdf|title=The Airplay Chart|magazine=Music Week|date=18 June 1994|page=22|access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref>
==Music video== The music video for "U & Me" was directed by Juan Kerr and filmed in Castle Films Studios in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BczEAcCiDrc|title=Capella U & Me|publisher=YouTube|access-date=16 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurokdj.com/search/video.php?id=736|title=Capella - U & Me music video|publisher=Eurokdj.com|access-date=29 February 2024}}</ref> Dancer and singer Kelly Overett of Cappella told in an interview in 2022 about the costume she's wearing in the video, "It was really heavy and I didn't mind, it fit the storyboard for the video. I didn't have to wear it for long. All the videos I appeared in were made in London by the same company. They were so creative. We used a lot of the same dancers and they would show up wondering what they would be doing this time."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurokdj.com/interviews/kelly_o_interview.php?fbclid=IwAR3P3SsGlEbxTFGdWGEyPauk6NnesGAOTKJKzOJj7PEplDU6w2142Jcnvw0|title=Kelly O - The Interview by Klems|publisher=Eurokdj.com|date=14 December 2022|access-date=29 May 2025}}</ref> "U & Me" was A-listed on German music television channel VIVA and received active rotation on MTV Europe in July 1994.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Station Reports > VIVA TV/Cologne|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-16.pdf|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=29|date=16 July 1994|page=26|access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-16.pdf|title=Station Reports: MTV Europe|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=29|date=16 July 1994|page=26|access-date=19 December 2025}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "U & Me" (Masters radio edit) – 3:17 # "U & Me" (Mars Plastic mix) – 6:36 # "U & Me" (Housemix) – 6:47 # "U & Me" (R.A.F. Zone mix) – 5:42 # "U & Me" (DJ EFX's Disco Latino Mezcla) – 7:32 # "U & Me" (X-Ray cut) – 6:17 # "U & Me" (Plus Staples extended) – 7:14 # "U & Me" (B's San Transdisko Dish) – 7:05
==Credits== * Artwork – TFX Image Development BV * Mastered by – Hay Zeelen * Producer – Gianfranco Bortolotti * Written by – C. Piccinelli, Diego Leoni, Gianfranco Bortolotti, G. Elmzoom, L. Cittadini, Ricardo Overman
==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (1994) !Peak<br>position |- !scope="row"|Australia (ARIA)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/RCad3I8.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 21 Aug 1994|publisher=Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA)|access-date=25 August 2016}} N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.</ref> | 76 |- {{single chart|Austria|15|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- {{single chart|Flanders|14|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- !scope="row"|Denmark (IFPI)<ref>Danish Singles Chart. 22 July 1994.</ref> | 15 |- !scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)<ref name="eurocharthot100"/> | 7 |- !scope="row"|Europe (European Dance Radio)<ref name="europeandanceradio"/> | 1 |- !scope="row"|Europe (European Hit Radio)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-07-30.pdf#page=17|title=EHR Top 40|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=31|date=30 July 1994|page=17|access-date=8 January 2026}}</ref> | 40 |- !scope="row"|Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)<ref name="finland"/> | 1 |- {{single chart|France|34|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- {{single chart|Germany|14|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|songid=2821|rowheader=true|access-date=4 April 2019}} |- {{single chart|Ireland2|25|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=25 November 2019}} |- !scope="row"|Italy (''Musica e dischi'')<ref name="italy"/> | 6 |- {{Single chart|Dutch40|3|year=1994|week=30|rowheader=true|access-date=29 October 2019|refname="netherlands"}} |- {{Single chart|Dutch100|4|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- !scope="row"|Scotland (OCC)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/scottish-singles-chart/19940529/41/|title=Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100 (29 May 1994-02 July 1994 )|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> | 4 |- {{single chart|Sweden|15|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- {{single chart|Switzerland|13|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|rowheader=true|access-date=29 May 2025}} |- {{single chart|UK|10|artist=Cappella|song=U & Me|date=19940618|rowheader=true|refname="uk"}} |- !scope="row"|UK Airplay (''Music Week'')<ref name="UKairplay"/> | 38 |- !scope="row"|UK Dance (''Music Week'')<ref name="UKdance"/> | 10 |- !scope="row"|UK Club Chart (''Music Week'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-05-28.pdf|title=The ''RM'' Club Chart|magazine=Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert)|date=28 May 1994|page=10|accessdate=15 May 2023}}</ref> | 5 |- !scope="row"|UK Indie (''Music Week'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-07-09.pdf|title= Indie Singles |magazine= Music Week |date= 22 October 1994 |page= 28 |access-date= 11 May 2025}}</ref> | 1 |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (1994) !Position |- !scope="row"|Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1994|title=Jaaroverzichten 1994|language=nl|publisher=Ultratop|access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> | 89 |- !scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-12-24.pdf|title=1994 Year-End Sales Charts: Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=11|issue=52|date=24 December 1994|page=12|access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref> | 94 |- !scope="row"|Europe (European Dance Radio)<ref name="europeandanceradioyearend"/> | 5 |- !scope="row"|Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.top40web.nl/jaarlijsten/jr1994.html|title=Jaarlijsten 1994|language=nl|publisher=Dutch Top 40|access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref> | 51 |- !scope="row"|Netherlands (Single Top 100)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1994&cat=s|title=Jaaroverzichten – Single 1994|language=nl|publisher=MegaCharts|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref> | 26 |- !scope="row"|UK Singles (OCC)<ref>{{cite magazine|title=1994 – Singles|magazine=Hit Music|page=31|date=7 January 1995}}</ref> | 133 |} {{col-end}}
==Release history== {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" !scope="col"|Region !scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Format(s) !scope="col"|Label(s) !scope="col"|{{abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |- !scope="row" rowspan="2"|United Kingdom |6 June 1994 |{{hlist|12-inch vinyl|CD|cassette}} |rowspan="2"|Internal Dance |<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|magazine=Music Week|page=21|date=4 June 1994}}</ref> |- |13 June 1994 |Remix CD |<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|magazine=Music Week|page=25|date=11 June 1994}}</ref> |- !scope="row"|Australia |20 June 1994 |{{hlist|CD|cassette}} |Liberation |<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Release Summary – Product Available from : 13/06/94: Singles|magazine=The ARIA Report|issue=227|page=20|date=19 June 1994}} ''Misprinted as the previous date, 13 June''.</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:U and Me}} Category:1994 singles Category:1994 songs Category:Cappella (band) songs Category:Music videos shot in London Category:Number-one singles in Finland Category:Songs about dancing Category:Songs written by Gianfranco Bortolotti Category:UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles