"If You Were with Me Now" is a song by Australian

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and American R&B singer

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. It was written by Minogue, Washington, and British songwriting team

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for Minogue's fourth studio album, ''

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'' (1991). The song was produced by Stock and Waterman. The song was released as the second

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on 21 October 1991 by

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. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the top 10 in Ireland and the top 30 in Australia. The song is Minogue's first hit single to feature her as a co-writer.

Critical reception

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's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet". Betty Page from ''

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'' wrote, "As for "If You Were Here with Me Now", well, I predict the world will be hearing an awful lot of this, probably around Christmas. It's a duet with 'mystery singer'

, who sounds like Son Of Lionel but could be helping Kylie to be the Big American Hit. It's oozingly schmaltzy and is probably a brilliant career move." Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programme ''

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'', they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads". In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper ''

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'' ranked the song as Minogue's 178th best song (out of 183), adding that sounds like "a play for the

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soundtrack".

Track listings

* Australian and UK CD single # "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10 # " I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59 # "If You Were with Me Now" (extended version) – 5:06 * Australian and UK cassette single, UK 7-inch single # "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10 # "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 3:30 * UK 12-inch single # "If You Were with Me Now" – 5:06 # "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:If You Were With Me Now 1990s ballads 1991 singles 1991 songs Keith Washington songs Kylie Minogue songs Male–female vocal duets Mushroom Records singles Pete Waterman Entertainment singles Pop ballads Songs written by Keith Washington Songs written by Kylie Minogue Songs written by Mike Stock (musician) Songs written by Pete Waterman