Waiting for the Day

Waiting for the Day
Studio album by Bachelor Girl
Released 9 November 1998
(see release history)
Genre Pop
Label Gotham
Bachelor Girl chronology

Waiting for the Day
(1998)		 Breaking Through from Down Under
(1999)
Singles from Waiting for the Day
  1. "Buses and Trains"
    Released: June 1998
  2. "Treat Me Good"
    Released: October 1998
  3. "Lucky Me"
    Released: April 1999
  4. "Blown Away"
    Released: September 1999
  5. "Permission to Shine"
    Released: radio release only

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".

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.[1] 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.[1] The Australian Recording Industry Association awarded the album a platinum certification for shipping 70,000 copies.[2] It also sold enough copies to become the eighty-eighth highest selling album in Australia for 1998 and the ninety-ninth for 2000.[3][4]

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:[5]

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

Track listing

  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
  1. "Treat Me Good" (Cyber mix) – 5:40
  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)

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[1] 20

Year-End charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[3] 88
Chart (2000) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[4] 99

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalogue
Australia 9 November 1998 Gotham Records CD GOTH98052
3 May 1999 GOTH99032
Japan 25 March 1999 BMG Japan CD BVCP-21045

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Waiting for the Day - Australian chart run". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  2. ↑ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1999 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 100 Albums 1998". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 100 Albums 2000". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  5. ↑ "ARIA Award - Bachelor Girl history". ARIA Awards. Retrieved 10 February 2009.