What About Me (Moving Pictures song)

"What About Me"
Australian vinyl release (January 1982)
Single by Moving Pictures
from the album Days of Innocence
B-side"Round Again"
ReleasedJanuary 1982
GenreRock
Length3:38, 3:32 (single remix)
Label
  • Wheatley (Australia)
  • Network (US)
  • Geffen (US)
Songwriter(s)
  • Garry Frost
  • Frances Swan
Producer(s)Charles Fisher
Moving Pictures singles chronology
"Bustin' Loose"
(1981)
"What About Me"
(1982)
"Sweet Cherie"
(1982)

"What About Me" is a song written by Garry Frost and Frances Swan. It was first recorded by Australian rock band Moving Pictures, of which Garry Frost was a member, for its 1981 debut album, Days of Innocence. It became the band's first and only number-one single in Australia, spending six weeks atop the Kent Music Report; it was the second-highest-selling single of 1982 there. At the 1982 Countdown Music Awards, the song won Best Australian Single. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "What About Me" was ranked number 37.

The success of the song in Australia led to its American release. "What About Me" subsequently reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, ending 1983 as the 88th-most-successful single of the year in the US. The song re-charted in 1989, reaching number 46. In January 2004, Australian Idol season 1 runner-up Shannon Noll released a cover of the song that topped Australia's ARIA Singles Chart for four weeks and ended the year as Australia's most successful single. Noll's version was also a surprise hit in Ireland, where it debuted and peaked at number two in October 2004.