Read My Lips (Melissa song)

"Read My Lips"
Single by Melissa
from the album Fresh
B-side	"Say Goodbye"
Released	20 May 1991 (Australia)[1]
Format	12", cassette, CD
Recorded	1991 at Powerhouse Studios, Sydney, Australia
Genre	Pop
Length	3:43
Label	Phonogram
Writer(s)	Tony King, Roy Nicolson
Producer(s)	Leon Berger
Melissa singles chronology
"Read My Lips" (1991) "Sexy (Is the Word)" (1991)

"Read My Lips" is a pop song written by Tony King and Roy Nicolson, produced by Leon Berger for Melissa's first album Fresh (1992). It was released as the album's first single in Australia as a CD single on 20 May 1991.^[1] Starring as Nikki Spencer on the Australian soap opera E Street at the time the song was released, it became Melissa's first and only number-one hit.

"Read My Lips" was the only number one hit in 1991 by a solo female Australian singer and was nominated for two ARIA Awards. The song debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on 3 June 1991 at number forty-one.^[2] After just six weeks of being in the charts, the song had made its way to number one, knocking "The Grease Megamix" off the top spot. It stayed there for another week but then was knocked off the top by "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams. "Read My Lips" became Melissa's highest selling single of her career, spending eighteen weeks in the top fifty,^[2] and twenty-one weeks in the top 100.^[3] The single was certified platinum by ARIA,^[3] becoming the sixth highest selling single for 1991.^[4] "Read My Lips" won the ARIA Award for "Highest Selling Single" for 1992.^[5]

A music video was produced for the song. It features male dancers, one of who is (a then-unknown) Simon Baker, as well as (a then-unknown) Tom Williams.

Track listing

CD and cassette single

1. "Read My Lips" — 3:48
2. "Say Goodbye" — 4:59

12" inch LP

• Side A

1. "Read My Lips" (12" inch remix) — 6:08

• Side B

1. "Say Goodbye" — 4:59
2. "Read My Lips" — 3:44

Charts

Chart (1991) Peak position Australia (ARIA)[3] 1 Sales and certifications Region Certification Certified units/Sales Australia (ARIA)[3] Platinum 70,000^^ ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Year-end charts Year Country Position 1991 Australia (ARIA)[6] 6

References

1. "New Release Summary – Product Available from: 20/05/91 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 69)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 15 November 2016.
2. MELISSA (AU) - READ MY LIPS (SINGLE) (284275). Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
3. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
4. ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Singles 1991. ARIA Charts. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
5. Melissa Awards data. ARIA. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
6. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1991.htm