Walking on a Dream
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Walking on a Dream is the debut album by Australian electronic
duo Empire of the Sun
, released in Australia on 4 October 2008 by EMI
. The album was produced by band members Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore
along with Peter Mayes
.
Walking on a Dream received eleven nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 2009
, including Album of the Year. A special edition of the album, containing a bonus disc of remixes, B-sides, and unreleased tracks, was released on 20 November 2009.
and number twenty-one on the UK Albums Chart
, selling 10,751 copies. The album has been certified double platinum in Australia and gold in the United Kingdom. The album in post-production was titled We Are the People but was changed to Walking on a Dream due to the success of the first single of the same name.
The first single from the album, "Walking on a Dream
", was released digitally on 30 August 2008. The video features Steele and Littlemore, wearing Oriental costumes and makeup, on location along the Bund
in Shanghai
, China in July/August 2008, just prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics
.
The second single was "We Are the People
", which was first released as a digital download on 20 September 2008. The video for the song was shot in Mexico, and used the ancient Mexican festival Day of the Dead
(Día de los Muertos) as its inspiration. Locations included the gardens of Sir Edward James
at Las Pozas, Monterrey
and García
.
Studios in Sydney
at various times throughout 2007. According to the duo's label's website, the painting of Steele and Littlemore that comprises the album artwork was based on the iconic film posters for Indiana Jones and Star Wars.
, which assigns a normalised
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
score of 60, based on 16 reviews. Sophie Bruce from BBC Music
gave the album a rave review, stating that "[t]heir talent is undoubtable and this album sounds like an instant classic" and that "[t]his is the sound of the Noughties—electro enough without being harsh, interesting without being over-cool, quirky without being weird." Andrew Leahey from Allmusic called the album "eclectic" and wrote that the duo "find common ground between their stylistically disparate backgrounds, producing a number of songs filled with Steele's quirky pop melodies and Littlemore's hip dance sensibilities." Blender
s Tyler Gray stated that "[a]coustic guitar strummed in time with dance beats, tinny vocals and tons of slap-back reverb—it's like some magical pop formula concocted long ago by aboriginal Australian shamen
and parceled out ever since to INXS
, Midnight Oil
, Outback Steakhouse
jingle makers and now this turquoise-loving duo." Martin Robinson of the NME
heavily compared Empire of the Sun to MGMT
, stating that "[t]he ludicrousness of 'We Are The People' and 'Walking On A Dream' doesn't stop them from being sensational. Both have sunshiny choruses which hook into your perineum and drag you upwards, with 'Walking On A Dream's mantra of 'We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it' marking it as their 'Time To Pretend
'." Michael Cragg of musicOMH
, however, felt that the album "offers little in the way of musical experimentation", and added that "[m]ost of it sounds like a strange amalgam of Fleetwood Mac
and MGMT, as if the latter had been transposed from the slightly grubby streets of Brooklyn
to the beaches of Australia."
In a review for The Guardian
, Dorian Lynskey commented that "[a]t various points, Walking On a Dream resembles Prince
, Mercury Rev
, Angelo Badalamenti
, Funkadelic
and the Muppets
, none of them at their best." Andy Gill of The Independent
opined that tracks "Walking on a Dream" and "We Are the People" "rather resemble The Beloved
or Air, sharing with those duos the impression that the music just seems to have settled, like snow, around the melody." The Observer
critic Alex Denney believed that "the record settles upon a cooler hue, favouring minor-key shuffles that, at their best, sound like prime Bangles
cuts, but tend towards pedestrian 1980s pop hackery at their worst." Tyler Fisher from PopMatters
referred to the music as a "mix of swirling analog synth, funky guitar, and basic drum beats all placed in a world of reverb that sounds like an ethereal, distant realm of sound." Jason Treuen from Rolling Stone Australia
scored the album 3.5 out of 5, describing it as "gorgeously plaintive electro-pop". He commented that "there's no denying Littlemore and Steele have touched on something beautiful and otherworldly here", but also noted that "the gold is harder to find in the record's hazy second half". Pitchfork Media
's Mike Orme noted that "although Empire tries mightily, they collapse underneath too many ideas before the record is even half over." Gillian Watson wrote for The Skinny that the album "emulates '70s and '80s excess" and that "[t]his lack of economy permeates the music itself, which lumbers one step shy of Daft Punk
to land as dull, neutered MOR. Tacky drum beats and irritatingly nasal vocals compound the sense that this album is one that, while shooting for the heavens, utterly fails to transcend by dint of its clunky long-windedness."
nominations were announced on 8 October 2009. and Empire of the Sun received more nominations than any other artist, with a total of eleven. The winners were announced on 26 November 2009.
|-
| rowspan="11" | 2009 || rowspan="3" | Walking on a Dream || Album of the Year ||
|-
| Highest Selling Album ||
|-
| Best Pop Release ||
|-
| rowspan="3" | "Walking on a Dream" || Single of the Year ||
|-
| Highest Selling Single ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | Best Video (directed by Josh Logue) ||
|-
| "We Are the People" ||
|-
| Empire of the Sun || Best Group ||
|-
| Empire of the Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes || Producer of the Year ||
|-
| Aaron Hayward and David Homer from Debaser || Best Cover Art ||
|-
| Peter Mayes || Engineer of the Year ||
| 2010 || Walking on a Dream || Best International Album ||
.
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
duo Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun (band)
Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo that formed in 2008. The duo is composed of Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore of Pnau. The two met in 2000 after both being signed to the same record label. Luke and Nick knew that they instantly had a chemistry like no other...
, released in Australia on 4 October 2008 by EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
. The album was produced by band members Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore
Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau and one part of electro pop-duo Empire of the Sun . He is also member of art-rock band Teenager Nick Littlemore is an Australian musician and producer, known as frontman of electronic act Pnau (with...
along with Peter Mayes
Peter Mayes
Peter Mayes is an Australian musician and producer. He widely known for being a leading member of dance act Pnau. He is long time collaborator with Nick Littlemore and has produced and mixed many of his projects, most notably the platinum selling album Walking on a Dream for Empire of the Sun, and...
.
Walking on a Dream received eleven nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 2009
ARIA Music Awards of 2009
The 23rd Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards took place on 26 November 2009 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. The ceremony was telecast on the Nine Network at 8:30pm that night...
, including Album of the Year. A special edition of the album, containing a bonus disc of remixes, B-sides, and unreleased tracks, was released on 20 November 2009.
Information
The album debuted at number eight on the Australian Albums ChartARIA 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 number twenty-one on the 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...
, selling 10,751 copies. The album has been certified double platinum in Australia and gold in the United Kingdom. The album in post-production was titled We Are the People but was changed to Walking on a Dream due to the success of the first single of the same name.
The first single from the album, "Walking on a Dream
Walking on a Dream (song)
"Walking on a Dream" is a song by the Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun, released as the lead single from their debut album, Walking on a Dream. The full Sam La More remix was made available as a free download on the band's official website. The single was successful on the Australian...
", was released digitally on 30 August 2008. The video features Steele and Littlemore, wearing Oriental costumes and makeup, on location along the Bund
The Bund
The Bund is a waterfront area in central Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District...
in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, China in July/August 2008, just prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
.
The second single was "We Are the People
We Are the People (Empire of the Sun song)
"We Are the People" is a song by the Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun, released as the second single from their debut album, Walking on a Dream. It was released in Australia on 20 September 2008 and debuted at number eighty-five on the ARIA Singles Chart before peaking at number...
", which was first released as a digital download on 20 September 2008. The video for the song was shot in Mexico, and used the ancient Mexican festival Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in many cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico, where it attains the quality...
(Día de los Muertos) as its inspiration. Locations included the gardens of Sir Edward James
Edward James
Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.-Early life and marriage:...
at Las Pozas, Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
and García
García, Nuevo León
García is a municipality located to the northwest of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. García had, according to the 2005 census, a population of 51,658 persons...
.
Production
The album was recorded and mixed by Peter Mayes at Soundworks Music Studio and Linear RecordingLinear Recording
Linear Recording is a recording studio complex located in Sydney, Australia, which was established by recording engineer Christopher Vallejo and Emren Kara in 2005. Linear Recording is one of Australia's only dedicated all-analogue recording studios...
Studios in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
at various times throughout 2007. According to the duo's label's website, the painting of Steele and Littlemore that comprises the album artwork was based on the iconic film posters for Indiana Jones and Star Wars.
Critical reception
Walking on a Dream received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. At MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, which assigns a normalised
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
Weighted mean
The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...
score of 60, based on 16 reviews. Sophie Bruce from BBC Music
BBC Music
BBC Music is a team working in the department of Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC. Responsible for the BBC Music website - the portal site to music content across the BBC website....
gave the album a rave review, stating that "[t]heir talent is undoubtable and this album sounds like an instant classic" and that "[t]his is the sound of the Noughties—electro enough without being harsh, interesting without being over-cool, quirky without being weird." Andrew Leahey from Allmusic called the album "eclectic" and wrote that the duo "find common ground between their stylistically disparate backgrounds, producing a number of songs filled with Steele's quirky pop melodies and Littlemore's hip dance sensibilities." Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....
s Tyler Gray stated that "[a]coustic guitar strummed in time with dance beats, tinny vocals and tons of slap-back reverb—it's like some magical pop formula concocted long ago by aboriginal Australian shamen
Shamanism
Shamanism is an anthropological term referencing a range of beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world. To quote Eliade: "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = technique of ecstasy." Shamanism encompasses the...
and parceled out ever since to INXS
INXS
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...
, Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...
, Outback Steakhouse
Outback Steakhouse
Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T...
jingle makers and now this turquoise-loving duo." Martin Robinson of the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
heavily compared Empire of the Sun to MGMT
MGMT
MGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...
, stating that "[t]he ludicrousness of 'We Are The People' and 'Walking On A Dream' doesn't stop them from being sensational. Both have sunshiny choruses which hook into your perineum and drag you upwards, with 'Walking On A Dream's mantra of 'We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it' marking it as their 'Time To Pretend
Time to Pretend
-Reception:"Time to Pretend is a space-rock gem that mocks the clichéd coke-and-hookers rock-star lifestyle, over big synth whooshes." – Kevin O'Donnell, Rolling Stone...
'." Michael Cragg of musicOMH
MusicOMH
musicOMH is a United Kingdom-based website which publishes independent reviews, featues and interviews from across all musical genres including classical, metal, rock and R&B.-History:...
, however, felt that the album "offers little in the way of musical experimentation", and added that "[m]ost of it sounds like a strange amalgam of Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British–American rock band formed in 1967 in London.The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood...
and MGMT, as if the latter had been transposed from the slightly grubby streets of Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
to the beaches of Australia."
In a review for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Dorian Lynskey commented that "[a]t various points, Walking On a Dream resembles Prince
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
, Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker , Jonathan Donahue , Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a...
, Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti
Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...
, Funkadelic
Funkadelic
Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...
and the Muppets
The Muppets
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference...
, none of them at their best." Andy Gill of The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
opined that tracks "Walking on a Dream" and "We Are the People" "rather resemble The Beloved
The Beloved
The Beloved are an English electronic dance music group, best known for the singles "Sweet Harmony", "Hello", "Your Love Takes Me Higher", and "Satellite".-Formation:...
or Air, sharing with those duos the impression that the music just seems to have settled, like snow, around the melody." The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
critic Alex Denney believed that "the record settles upon a cooler hue, favouring minor-key shuffles that, at their best, sound like prime Bangles
The Bangles
The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...
cuts, but tend towards pedestrian 1980s pop hackery at their worst." Tyler Fisher from PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
referred to the music as a "mix of swirling analog synth, funky guitar, and basic drum beats all placed in a world of reverb that sounds like an ethereal, distant realm of sound." Jason Treuen from Rolling Stone Australia
Rolling Stone Australia
Rolling Stone Australia is an Australian-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published monthly, it is the Australian edition of the United States' Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone was initially released in Melbourne in May 1970 as a supplement in Revolution, an...
scored the album 3.5 out of 5, describing it as "gorgeously plaintive electro-pop". He commented that "there's no denying Littlemore and Steele have touched on something beautiful and otherworldly here", but also noted that "the gold is harder to find in the record's hazy second half". Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
's Mike Orme noted that "although Empire tries mightily, they collapse underneath too many ideas before the record is even half over." Gillian Watson wrote for The Skinny that the album "emulates '70s and '80s excess" and that "[t]his lack of economy permeates the music itself, which lumbers one step shy of Daft Punk
Daft Punk
Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...
to land as dull, neutered MOR. Tacky drum beats and irritatingly nasal vocals compound the sense that this album is one that, while shooting for the heavens, utterly fails to transcend by dint of its clunky long-windedness."
Track listing
Weekly charts
| Chart (2009–11) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian 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... |
6 |
| Austrian Albums Chart | 22 |
| Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... (Flanders) |
27 |
| Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... (Wallonia) |
37 |
| Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
70 |
| European Top 100 Albums European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100... |
66 |
| French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
60 |
| German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
31 |
| Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
17 |
| Italian Albums Chart Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.... |
27 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... |
37 |
| Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75... |
15 |
| 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... |
19 |
| US Heatseekers Albums Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
25 |
Certifications
| Country | Certification |
|---|---|
| Australia 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... |
2× Platinum |
| Germany Bundesverband Musikindustrie The Bundesverband Musikindustrie or simply BVMI represents the music industry in Germany. The association represents the interests of nearly 350 labels and music industry related enterprises.... |
Gold |
| Ireland Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:... |
Gold |
| United Kingdom British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
Gold |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2009) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart | 18 |
| UK Albums Chart | 111 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 4 October 2008 | Capitol Records Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine... , EMI EMI The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major... |
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 ,... , digital download 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... |
2354032 |
| 20 November 2009 | 2×CD special edition, digital download | 5099930976221 | ||
| United Kingdom | 16 February 2009 | Virgin Records Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny... |
CD, digital download | CDVIR227 |
| Netherlands | 20 February 2009 | EMI | ||
| Ireland | ||||
| Switzerland | CD | |||
| Arabia | 23 February 2009 | |||
| Belgium | EMI | |||
| Denmark | ||||
| Portugal | ||||
| Singapore | ||||
| South Africa | ||||
| Spain | EMI | |||
| Hong Kong | 24 February 2009 | |||
| Finland | 25 February 2009 | EMI | ||
| Sweden | CD | 509992354032 | ||
| Germany | 13 March 2009 | CD | ||
| Mexico | 16 March 2009 | CD, digital download | 5099923540323 | |
| Italy | 27 March 2009 | CD | ||
| United States | 21 April 2009 | Astralwerks Astralwerks Astralwerks is a New York-based record label that releases primarily electronic music. It is owned by Virgin Records/EMI and distributed by Caroline Distribution in the United States.... |
CD, digital download | ASW 35403 |
| Japan | 10 June 2009 | EMI Music Japan | CD | TOCP-66889 |
| Brazil | 24 September 2010 | EMI |
ARIA Awards
The ARIA Music Awards of 2009ARIA Music Awards of 2009
The 23rd Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards took place on 26 November 2009 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. The ceremony was telecast on the Nine Network at 8:30pm that night...
nominations were announced on 8 October 2009. and Empire of the Sun received more nominations than any other artist, with a total of eleven. The winners were announced on 26 November 2009.
|-
| rowspan="11" | 2009 || rowspan="3" | Walking on a Dream || Album of the Year ||
|-
| Highest Selling Album ||
|-
| Best Pop Release ||
|-
| rowspan="3" | "Walking on a Dream" || Single of the Year ||
|-
| Highest Selling Single ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | Best Video (directed by Josh Logue) ||
|-
| "We Are the People" ||
|-
| Empire of the Sun || Best Group ||
|-
| Empire of the Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes || Producer of the Year ||
|-
| Aaron Hayward and David Homer from Debaser || Best Cover Art ||
|-
| Peter Mayes || Engineer of the Year ||
BRIT Awards
|-| 2010 || Walking on a Dream || Best International Album ||
Accolades
In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums100 Best Australian Albums
100 Best Australian Albums is a compendium of rock and pop albums of the past 50 years as compiled by music journalists Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell. The book was published on 25 October 2010 by Hardie Grant Books...
.