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"Hit Song"
Single by Custard
from the album Loverama
Released	April 1999 (1999-04)
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	9:19
Label	rooArt
Songwriter(s)	David McCormack, Glenn Thompson, Paul Medew, Matthew Strong
Producer(s)	Magoo
Custard singles chronology
" Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)" (1998) "Hit Song" (1999) "Ringo (I Feel Like)" (1999)

"Hit Song" is a song by Custard, released as the second single from the band's fifth album, Loverama. It reached No. 60 on the Australian ARIA singles chart, ^[1] and No. 83 on the 1999 Hottest 100. ^[2]

McCormack said, "The record companies are always keen for that radio-friendly, unit-shifting smash hit. And that is their job I guess. So I basically quoted all the things I'd heard them say to us and other people. Like you have to have a hit song -- you need a chorus and the verse and then the other chorus and it just seemed like a formula. So I thought that if they want a hit song I will just write exactly what they want and I guess they thought I was being too cynical and ironic but I was just trying to give them what they wanted. I gave them exactly what they asked for. And they said 'Thank you very much'." ^[3]