Here Come the Drums
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Here Come the Drums is the second studio album
by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders
, released in Australia
on 23 October 2005 (see 2005 in music
) by Columbia Records
. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte
and has a genre of dance
pop
songs — mainly written by Jamie Appleby
, Steven Davis, Melinda Appleby. Here Come the Drums debuted in the top ten on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart
, and sales were considerably higher than those of the Rogue Traders's debut album, We Know What You're up To
(2003). 5 singles were released from the album, all of which peaked within the top 20. "Voodoo Child", the most successful song from the album peaked in the top ten in Australia
, New Zealand
and the United Kingdom
. Other singles includes "Way to Go!
", "Watching You
", "We're Coming Home
" and
"In Love Again
". The commercial success of the album, led to a We're Coming Home National Tour in 2006 and a nomination for seven ARIA Awards.
song "Need You Tonight". Band members James Ash
and Steve Davis were happy with the acknowledgment, but they both secretly wondered if they would ever get such success again, so at that moment they decided that they were going to be known for their own material. The album, unlike their first album, includes live instrumentation; live drums
, live guitar
s and bass
, performed by the same players who played live with that band. Ash stated that "We were at a point where we felt that we had gone as far as we could go with conventional dance music. And we wanted to have a sound that broke out of it. At that time dance music was taking itself very seriously and the music that we'd really been enjoying for the past couple of years had been rock acts. They had loads of energy, but they also had amazing production and really big melodies and the musical depth that I was after".
Change of their sound also came when in 2004, the band was taking auditions for a new lead vocalist. Australian actor Natalie Bassingthwaighte
auditioned and the band accepted her and began she working with them straight away. Bassingthwaighte states "I wanted to bring my personality into the band". I wanted to colour it, to make it very rock, but also make the vocals very character based. I can be very outrageous, and the songs let me go out there and just explode". She became the lead vocalist on every track on the album except "Casting Aside" which is sung by Ash.
" on 9 October 2005. The music video
for the song was filmed on 6 August 2005 and was a competition, the winners got to appear as extras in the video. The song became the bands third top ten hit, peaking at number seven in Australia. Rogue Traders also supported Kelly Clarkson
when she came to Australia and performed "Voodoo Child" at the nineteenth annual ARIA Awards.
The album debuted on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart on 31 October 2005 at number nine, making the album to be their first top ten album. The album fell slowly down the charts from then on but it was not until its tenth week in the chart it began to rise again. It stayed in the top ten for fourteen consecutive weeks peaking at number two twice (being held off the top spot by Face to Face
by Westlife
and Back to Bedlam by James Blunt
). The album spent many more weeks in the top fifty re-entering twice making seventy weeks in the top fifty. It became the eightieth highest selling album in Australia for 2005, the six highest selling album for 2006 and was certified four times platinum by ARIA
. The album re-entered the top fifty albums chart again on 8 October 2007 (with the release of their third album), nearly two years of being released, now spending seventy-two weeks in the top fifty. The album has overall spent 74 weeks in the Australian charts. It has also been rated the 45th best album of all time in Australia. The album debuted at #46 on the UK albums chart, and dropped of the following week. A limited number of copies were released in New Zealand.
The song with the guitar riff of "My Sharona" by The Knack, "Watching You
" and the rock
influenced song "We're Coming Home
" was the third and fourth songs released from the album and were successful, both peaking in the top ten and twenty in Australia. One 1 July 2006 the they became the second band in history to play in the house of Big Brother Australia. They did four songs for the housemates; "We're Coming Home", "Way to Go!", "Believer" and "Fashion". The success of the bands music in Australia lead to their music being released in the United Kingdom
. "Voodoo Child" was released on 10 July 2006 and they toured in the UK on 11 July 2006 at the Shepherds Bush Empire
in London
. "Voodoo Child" made its debut on the UK Singles Chart
at number eighteen on digital downloads
alone, the following week with combined CD single
sales, it peaked at number three. The album was released in the UK on 17 July 2006 and peaked at number forty-six, spending only one week in the top seventy-five. "Watching You" was released as the second single in the UK at peaked in the top forty, while the fifth song released in Australia was "In Love Again
" which was a radio hit peaking at number twenty on the Australian Digital Track Chart. "Way to Go!" was released in the UK as the albums third single but was only released as a digital download.
" and "Shout Out"(A) from their third album, Better in the Dark
(2007).
2006 National Tour Dates
(A) "Shout Out" wasn't included on the third album, in fact it was a song included on the "I Never Liked You" , their only B-Side.
Limited edition CD 2
The Rogue Traders song, "Fashion" is used as the theme tune to Gok Wan
's Channel 4
television programme called Gok's Fashion Fix.
The song "Voodoo Child" plays in the Doctor Who
episode The Sound of Drums
.
and four were at the 2006 awards
:
The nominations for the 2006 ARIA Awards were announced in September 2006, the album was nominated for four awards:
It has been rated the 45th best album of all time in Australia.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by Australian dance rock act Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many...
, released in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
on 23 October 2005 (see 2005 in music
2005 in music
-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
) by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...
and has a genre of dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
songs — mainly written by Jamie Appleby
James Ash
James Ash , is an English-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group, the Rogue Traders...
, Steven Davis, Melinda Appleby. Here Come the Drums debuted in the top ten on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, and sales were considerably higher than those of the Rogue Traders's debut album, We Know What You're up To
We Know What You're up To
We Know What You're Up To is the debut album by Australian dance group Rogue Traders. It was released by Vicious Grooves, Virgin in Australia on 5 May 2003 . After disappointing sales and poor publicity, Rogue Traders was dropped from the label...
(2003). 5 singles were released from the album, all of which peaked within the top 20. "Voodoo Child", the most successful song from the album peaked in the top ten in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Other singles includes "Way to Go!
Way to Go!
"Way to Go!" is the second single by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums, released in 2005. It was released as the third single in the United Kingdom in May mainly as a download release. It is the first release under the famous "Rogue Traders" logo. In the UK, the single had a...
", "Watching You
Watching You
"Watching You" is the third song released by Australian band Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. The song was released as their second single in the United Kingdom in late 2006....
", "We're Coming Home
We're Coming Home
"We're Coming Home" is the fourth single released by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. Release in the UK and Ireland was cancelled after the poor performance of "Watching You" and "Way to Go!".-Track listing:Promo Slipcase...
" and
"In Love Again
In Love Again
"In Love Again" is the fifth and final single released by Australian electro-rock group Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. It was released for digital download in Australia in 2006. At the time of its release, digital downloads were not included as part of the main singles...
". The commercial success of the album, led to a We're Coming Home National Tour in 2006 and a nomination for seven ARIA Awards.
Content
The album was two years in the making, is self-produced and self-written and is the album that the band were just finding out what music genre they were. The making of the album started in October 2003 when the band won an ARIA Award for "Best Dance Release" with their remix of the INXSINXS
INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...
song "Need You Tonight". Band members James Ash
James Ash
James Ash , is an English-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group, the Rogue Traders...
and Steve Davis were happy with the acknowledgment, but they both secretly wondered if they would ever get such success again, so at that moment they decided that they were going to be known for their own material. The album, unlike their first album, includes live instrumentation; live drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, live guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s and bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, performed by the same players who played live with that band. Ash stated that "We were at a point where we felt that we had gone as far as we could go with conventional dance music. And we wanted to have a sound that broke out of it. At that time dance music was taking itself very seriously and the music that we'd really been enjoying for the past couple of years had been rock acts. They had loads of energy, but they also had amazing production and really big melodies and the musical depth that I was after".
Change of their sound also came when in 2004, the band was taking auditions for a new lead vocalist. Australian actor Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...
auditioned and the band accepted her and began she working with them straight away. Bassingthwaighte states "I wanted to bring my personality into the band". I wanted to colour it, to make it very rock, but also make the vocals very character based. I can be very outrageous, and the songs let me go out there and just explode". She became the lead vocalist on every track on the album except "Casting Aside" which is sung by Ash.
Promotion and chart performance
The albums promotion began when the albums first single "Voodoo Child" was released to radio across Australia. At first Bassingthwaighte's involvement with the band was kept quiet because Ash wanted people to buy their music not for the 'celebrity value'. "Voodoo Child" was a top ten hit peaking at number four on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. The success of "Voodoo Child" under their belt, the band were set to release their second single "Way to Go!Way to Go!
"Way to Go!" is the second single by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums, released in 2005. It was released as the third single in the United Kingdom in May mainly as a download release. It is the first release under the famous "Rogue Traders" logo. In the UK, the single had a...
" on 9 October 2005. The music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for the song was filmed on 6 August 2005 and was a competition, the winners got to appear as extras in the video. The song became the bands third top ten hit, peaking at number seven in Australia. Rogue Traders also supported Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.In 2003,...
when she came to Australia and performed "Voodoo Child" at the nineteenth annual ARIA Awards.
The album debuted on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart on 31 October 2005 at number nine, making the album to be their first top ten album. The album fell slowly down the charts from then on but it was not until its tenth week in the chart it began to rise again. It stayed in the top ten for fourteen consecutive weeks peaking at number two twice (being held off the top spot by Face to Face
Face to Face (Westlife album)
Face to Face was the sixth studio album by Irish boyband Westlife and it was released in the UK on 31 October 2005. The album contains many pop songs along with some dance oriented tracks. The album was also released in DualDisc on UK with the videos of the making of "You Raise Me Up", the Face to...
by Westlife
Westlife
Westlife are an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998. They are to disband in 2012. The group's line-up was Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden . The group are the only act in British and Irish history to have their first seven singles peak at number one...
and Back to Bedlam by James Blunt
James Blunt
James Hillier Blount , better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and musician, and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005...
). The album spent many more weeks in the top fifty re-entering twice making seventy weeks in the top fifty. It became the eightieth highest selling album in Australia for 2005, the six highest selling album for 2006 and was certified four times platinum by ARIA
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...
. The album re-entered the top fifty albums chart again on 8 October 2007 (with the release of their third album), nearly two years of being released, now spending seventy-two weeks in the top fifty. The album has overall spent 74 weeks in the Australian charts. It has also been rated the 45th best album of all time in Australia. The album debuted at #46 on the UK albums chart, and dropped of the following week. A limited number of copies were released in New Zealand.
The song with the guitar riff of "My Sharona" by The Knack, "Watching You
Watching You
"Watching You" is the third song released by Australian band Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. The song was released as their second single in the United Kingdom in late 2006....
" and the rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
influenced song "We're Coming Home
We're Coming Home
"We're Coming Home" is the fourth single released by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. Release in the UK and Ireland was cancelled after the poor performance of "Watching You" and "Way to Go!".-Track listing:Promo Slipcase...
" was the third and fourth songs released from the album and were successful, both peaking in the top ten and twenty in Australia. One 1 July 2006 the they became the second band in history to play in the house of Big Brother Australia. They did four songs for the housemates; "We're Coming Home", "Way to Go!", "Believer" and "Fashion". The success of the bands music in Australia lead to their music being released in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. "Voodoo Child" was released on 10 July 2006 and they toured in the UK on 11 July 2006 at the Shepherds Bush Empire
Shepherds Bush Empire
The O2 Shepherds Bush Empire is a music venue in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, run by the Academy Music Group. It was built in 1903, as a music hall, and in 1953 became the BBC Television Theatre...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. "Voodoo Child" made its debut on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
at number eighteen on digital downloads
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
alone, the following week with combined CD single
CD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
sales, it peaked at number three. The album was released in the UK on 17 July 2006 and peaked at number forty-six, spending only one week in the top seventy-five. "Watching You" was released as the second single in the UK at peaked in the top forty, while the fifth song released in Australia was "In Love Again
In Love Again
"In Love Again" is the fifth and final single released by Australian electro-rock group Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. It was released for digital download in Australia in 2006. At the time of its release, digital downloads were not included as part of the main singles...
" which was a radio hit peaking at number twenty on the Australian Digital Track Chart. "Way to Go!" was released in the UK as the albums third single but was only released as a digital download.
"We're Coming Home" national tour
In 2006, Rogue Traders went on a national tour around Australia, playing at various cities around the country. They performed songs off their album Here Come The Drums, kicking off each show with "Believer" and ending with an encore of "Voodoo Child". It also previewed songs, including "Better in the Dark", "What You're OnWhat You're On
"What You're On" is a dance-pop song written by James Ash, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Steve Davis, and produced by Ash for the Rogue Traders's third studio album Better in the Dark . Co-writer, Ash, states the song deals with addiction...
" and "Shout Out"(A) from their third album, Better in the Dark
Better in the Dark
Better in the Dark is the third studio album by Australian dance group Rogue Traders. It was released in Australia by Columbia Records on 13 October 2007...
(2007).
2006 National Tour Dates
- 17 September- Brisbane Convention Centre
- 20 September- Newcastle Entertainment Centre
- 22 September- Wollongong Entertainment Centre
- 23 September- Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
- 24 September- Royal Theatre, Canberra
- 27 September- Derwent Entertainment Centre
- 29 September- Palais, Melbourne
- 30 September- Palais, Melbourne
- 1 October- Geelong Arena
- 3 October- Adelaide Entertainment Centre
- 5 October- Challenge Arena, Perth
(A) "Shout Out" wasn't included on the third album, in fact it was a song included on the "I Never Liked You" , their only B-Side.
Track listing
Standard edition- "Believer" (Jamie Appleby, Steven Davis) – 3:28
- "Voodoo Child" (Appleby, Davis, Declan MacManusElvis CostelloElvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
) – 3:57 - "Way to Go!Way to Go!"Way to Go!" is the second single by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums, released in 2005. It was released as the third single in the United Kingdom in May mainly as a download release. It is the first release under the famous "Rogue Traders" logo. In the UK, the single had a...
" (Appleby, David Isaac) – 3:16 - "World Go 'Round" (Appleby, Melinda Appleby) – 4:28
- "Rescue Me" (Appleby, Davis) – 4:44
- "Watching YouWatching You"Watching You" is the third song released by Australian band Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. The song was released as their second single in the United Kingdom in late 2006....
" (Appleby, Berton Averre, Doug Fieger) – 3:28 - "Change the Channel" (Appleby, Davis) – 0:31
- "We're Coming HomeWe're Coming Home"We're Coming Home" is the fourth single released by Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. Release in the UK and Ireland was cancelled after the poor performance of "Watching You" and "Way to Go!".-Track listing:Promo Slipcase...
" (Appleby, Appleby) – 3:21 - "Fashion" (Appleby) – 3:25
- "White Lightning" (Appleby, Davis) – 4:11
- "In Love AgainIn Love Again"In Love Again" is the fifth and final single released by Australian electro-rock group Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. It was released for digital download in Australia in 2006. At the time of its release, digital downloads were not included as part of the main singles...
" (Appleby, Roland OrzabalRoland OrzabalRoland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.- Early career :Orzabal...
, Curt SmithCurt SmithCurt Smith is an English musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Also a solo artist, he released his third album Halfway, Pleased in May 2008....
) – 5:13 - "Casting Aside" (Appleby, Davis) – 4:36
Limited edition CD 2
- "Voodoo Child" (James AshJames AshJames Ash , is an English-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group, the Rogue Traders...
Lektric remix) - "Way to Go!" (TV RockTV RockTV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...
remix) - "Watching You" (Dirty SouthDirty South (DJ)Dragan Roganović , better known by his stage name Dirty South,is a Serbian-born Australian DJ, remixer and record producer based in Melbourne.-Biography:...
vocal mix) - "We're Coming Home" (James Ash remix)
- "Voodoo Child" (Fuzzy Hair remix)
- "Watching You" (James Ash's 'Take Me Down' club mix)
Trivia
In the Interlude, Change The Channel, the end of the song has a hidden message when played backed saying "Would someone please kill that Fucking frog!"The Rogue Traders song, "Fashion" is used as the theme tune to Gok Wan
Gok Wan
Gok Wan is a British fashion consultant, author and television presenter of British Chinese heritage. He is known for his appearances on many television programmes , for providing fashion advice to celebrities and for contributing his views to fashion magazines published internationally.-Early...
's Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
television programme called Gok's Fashion Fix.
The song "Voodoo Child" plays in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
episode The Sound of Drums
The Sound of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 23 June 2007, and is the twelfth episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series...
.
Charts
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
2 |
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
46 |
| Chart | Certification | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Australia ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
4× Platinum | 280,000+ |
Awards and recognition
The album and its tracks received seven ARIA Award nominations. Three of the ARIA Awards were at the 2005 awardsARIA Music Awards of 2005
The 19th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 23 October 2005 at the Sydney Superdome at the Sydney Olympic Park complex, thus continuing the previous year's innovation of televising the awards on Sunday evening...
and four were at the 2006 awards
ARIA Music Awards of 2006
The 20th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex...
:
- "Best Video" ("Voodoo Child") — awarded to "O YeahO Yeah"O Yeah" is the debut single by Australian power pop band End of Fashion, taken from their 2005 self-titled debut album. The song is featured in the video game FIFA Street 2.-Track listing:-Info:...
" by End Of FashionEnd of FashionEnd of Fashion are an Australian power pop band from Perth, Western Australia. The band consists of singer and guitarist Justin Burford, guitarist Rodney Aravena, bassist Simon Fasolo, and drummer Mike Hobbs. The group gained mainstream attention with their 2005 single "O Yeah", which reached...
. - "Engineer of the Year" ("Voodoo Child") — awarded to Notes from a CeilingNotes From A CeilingNotes From A Ceiling is the second album from the Australian two-piece rock band The Mess Hall.The album won an ARIA Music Award for Best Engineer, was short-listed for the inaugural Australian Music Prize and was included in both Triple J and Rolling Stone's Top 50 of 2005.According to Jed Kurzel...
by The Mess HallThe Mess HallThe Mess Hall are a two-piece drums and guitar combo based in Sydney, Australia specialising in "raw, edgy bluesy rock." The band consists of Jed Kurzel and Cec Condon ....
. - "Best Dance Release" ("Voodoo Child") — awarded to Six Feet Above YesterdaySix Feet Above YesterdaySix Feet Above Yesterday is the first album by Infusion on Sony BMG. It was first released as the Enhanced Version in 2004, quickly followed by the Special Edition in 2005 featuring a second disc with two extra tracks and a number of remixes.-Disc One:...
by InfusionInfusion (band)Infusion is an Australian electronica band from Wollongong who are known for their energetic live performances and long résumé of remixes. Founding members Jamie Stevens and Manuel Sharrad met in Wollongong, where they both went to high school. Though third member Frank Xavier also hails from...
.
The nominations for the 2006 ARIA Awards were announced in September 2006, the album was nominated for four awards:
- "Best Pop Release" — awarded to The Secret Life of...The Secret Life Of... (album)The Secret Life of... is the debut studio album by Australian pop rock band The Veronicas, released on 17 October 2005 on Sire Records. It reached #2 in Australia and is certified 4x platinum. The album also reached #5 in New Zealand and #3 in the Billboard Top Heatseekers. The Secret Life of......
by The VeronicasThe VeronicasThe Veronicas are an Australian electrorock, pop-punk and rock band. Twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso formed the band in 1999 in Brisbane. They have their own line of clothing which was released in 2007....
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by WolfmotherWolfmotherWolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...
. - "Best Group" — awarded to Wolfmother by Wolfmother.
- "Highest Selling Album" — awarded to Reach Out: The Motown RecordReach Out: The Motown RecordReach Out: The Motown Record is Human Nature's fifth album. It debuted at number #6 on the Australian ARIA Album Chart but worked its way up to #1. On the album, the band perform their own renditions of eleven soul music classics...
by Human NatureHuman Nature (band)Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group. The group was originally formed as a doo-wop band in 1989 while the current members were at school together in Sydney. So far, the band has had 17 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits in Australia since 1996 when their first album Telling Everybody was...
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It has been rated the 45th best album of all time in Australia.
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| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
2005-10-23 | Columbia Records Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... |
CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
82876735272 |
| 2006-10-06 | 2-CD | 82876868112 | ||
| New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... |
2005-11-14 | Columbia Records | CD (Limited) | |
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
2006-07-17 | Columbia Records | CD | 82876869722 |
| Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
2006-11-24 | Columbia Records | CD |