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Released
  
9 November 1998

Artist
  
Bachelor Girl

Label
  
Gotham Records

Waiting for the Day (1998)
  
Dysfunctional (2002)

Release date
  
9 November 1998

Genre
  
Pop music

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Waiting for the Day is the first album by Australian band Bachelor Girl, released in Australia through Gotham Records on 9 November 1998 (see 1998 in music). The album charted in the top twenty on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and is the band's highest selling album. The album yielded five singles; "Buses and Trains", "Treat Me Good", "Lucky Me", "Blown Away" and "Permission to Shine".

Contents

It was released in the United States of America in 1999, under the title Breaking Through from Down Under with a slightly altered track listing.

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Commercial performance and reception

Waiting for the Day was commercially successful in Australia, reaching the top twenty on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and receiving one ARIA Award with five nominations. In mid November 1998, it debuted at number twenty-one on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. On the album's second chart week, it move up one spot to its peak chart position of twenty. The album went to spend nine months in the top fifty, reentering the chart four times, spending a total of thirty-six weeks on the chart. The Australian Recording Industry Association awarded the album a platinum certification for shipping 70,000 copies. It also sold enough copies to become the eighty-eighth highest selling album in Australia for 1998 and the ninety-ninth for 2000.

The album and its tracks received five ARIA Award nominations. One of the ARIA Awards were at the 1998 awards and four were at the 1999 awards:

  • "Best New Talent" ("Buses and Trains") — awarded to Left of the Middle by Natalie Imbruglia.

    • The nominations for the 1999 ARIA Awards were announced in September 1999, the album was nominated for four awards:

  • "Highest Selling Single" ("Buses and Trains") — awarded to "Jackie" by B.Z. featuring Joanne.
  • "Breakthrough Artist - Album" — awarded to The Living End by The Living End.
  • "Best Pop Release" — awarded to "The Animal Song" by Savage Garden.
  • "Producer of the Year" — won.

    • Track listing

    Australian Version
    1. "Buses and Trains" (James Roche) – 3:42
    2. "Gotta Let You Go" (Tania Doko, Roche) – 5:41
    3. "Treat Me Good" (Doko, Jimmy McDonnell, Roche) – 4:31
    4. "This Must Be Love (Like It or Not)" (Doko, Roche) – 4:07
    5. "Waiting for the Day" (Roche) – 4:07
    6. "My World" (Doko, Randy Goodrum, Roche, N. Sloan) – 4:20
    7. "You Are Afraid" (Roche) – 4:58
    8. "Someway, Somehow" (Doko, Roche) – 5:14
    9. "Blind" (Doko, Roche) – 4:11
    10. "Don't Hold Back" (Michael O'Rourke, Roche) – 4:57
    11. "I Don't Believe You" (Doko, Roche) – 3:59
    12. "Mad About You" (Doko, Roche) – 5:06
  • Japan edition
    1. "Treat Me Good" (Cyber mix) – 5:40
  • Australian re-issued edition
    1. "Lucky Me" (Roche) – 4:31
    2. "Permission to Shine" (Bridget Benenate) – 4:18
    3. "Blown Away" (S. Cutler, A. Preven) – 4:36
    4. "You Are Afraid" (remix)
    5. "Blind" (remix)
    US Version - Breaking Through from Down Under (1999)
    1. Buses And Trains - 3:41
    2. Blown Away - 4:36
    3. Lucky Me - 4:30
    4. Permission To Shine - 4:16
    5. Treat Me Good - 4:29
    6. Gotta Let You Go - 5:25
    7. Waiting For The Day - 5:06
    8. This Must Be Love (Like It Or Not) - 4:05
    9. You Are Afraid - 4:56
    10. I Don't Believe You - 3:58
    11. Someway, Somehow - 4:20
    12. Mad About You - 5:04

    Songs

    1Buses and Trains3:42
    2Gotta Let You Go5:42
    3Treat Me Good5:24

    References

    Waiting for the Day Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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