Waiting for the Day
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| Studio album by Bachelor Girl | ||||
| Released | 9 November 1998 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Gotham | |||
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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".
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.
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:
The nominations for the 1999 ARIA Awards were announced in September 1999, the album was nominated for four awards:
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