"Perfect Bliss" is the debut single of Irish

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Bellefire Bellefire were an Irish girl group, best known for their 2002 cover of the U2 song " All I Want Is You". The original line-up consisted of Kelly Kilfeather (born 23 March 1979), Tara Lee (born 25 July 1982), Cathy Newell (born 14 July 1982) a ...

, released as the lead single from their first album, '' After the Rain'' (2001). Issued in 2001, the song peaked at number two on the

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in June of the same year, ending the year as Ireland's 23rd-best-performing single. On 2 July 2001, "Perfect Bliss" was released in the United Kingdom, reaching number 18 on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

Music video

The

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was directed by Gregg Masuak with post-production from Chris Dean and Justin Mullender.

Track listings

UK HDCD single # "Perfect Bliss" – 3:38 # "Don't Let Me Down" – 4:25 # "Dancing Inside" – 3:50 # "Perfect Bliss" (video) UK cassette single and Japanese CD single # "Perfect Bliss" – 3:38 # "Don't Let Me Down" – 4:25 # "Dancing Inside" – 3:50 European CD single # "Perfect Bliss" – 3:38 # "Don't Let Me Down" – 4:25

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the UK CD single liner notes and the '' After the Rain'' album booklet. Studios * Recorded at Shane Songs Studios (Stockholm, Sweden) * Strings recorded at

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(Stockholm, Sweden) * Mixed in 2001 at Mono Music Studios (Stockholm, Sweden) Personnel *

Jörgen Elofsson Kjell Åke Jörgen Elofsson (born 14 January 1962) is a Swedish songwriter. He was one of the writers of the songwriter-team at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm (along with Denniz PoP, Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson, Rami Yacoub, Per ...

– writing, keyboards, programming, production, arrangement *

Phil Thornalley Philip Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing (with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven) the song " Torn" (made famous by Natalie Imbr ...

– writing * Bellefire – vocals *

Jeanette Olsson Jeanette Olsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She started working as a session singer in Stockholm in the late 1990s. Olsson has provided accompanying and background vocals on tracks by numerous top-selling artists, from Jennifer Lopez to ...

– additional backing vocals * Mathias Venge – guitars, programming, production, arrangement * Stockholm Session Strings – strings * Ulf Janssen – string arrangement * Henrik Janssen – string arrangement * Håkan Wollgård – recording (strings) * Bernard Löhr – mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

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Release history

References

{{Authority control 2001 debut singles 2001 songs Bellefire songs Songs written by Jörgen Elofsson Songs written by Phil Thornalley Virgin Records singles