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[3] [4] [5] The second single from the album, "Down Under", was released in November and was a reworked version of the B-side to their debut single, "Keypunch Operator", from the previous year. [3] "Down Under" was co-written by Hay and Strykert, [9] and became the group's first number-one hit in December – which stayed at the top for six weeks.
Album details Chart peak positions ... Label: Men at Work, Black Box Records/ MGM Distribution ... Business as Usual "Down Under" 1 1 9 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 AUS: Gold [22]
Men at Work has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. [44] On 28 May 2001 "Down Under" was listed at No. 4 on the APRA Top 30 Australian songs. [45] [46] In October 2010, Business as Usual was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. [47]
Michael Jackson's sixth album Thriller spent twenty-two weeks at number one, sold more than fifteen million copies to become the best-selling album of 1983, and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States.
The early version of "Down Under" has a slightly slower tempo and different arrangement from the later Columbia release. [10] The best-known version was then released on Columbia in 1981 as the second single from Men at Work's debut studio album Business as Usual.
The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). The first new number-one album of the year was the compilation album Raiders of the Pop Charts. Overall, twenty-one different albums peaked at number-one in 1983 ...
In 1998 she founded screen-music consultancy Chop Shop Music Supervision where she worked on music selection for productions including the Twilight series, Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Gossip Girl ...
This is a list of year-end number-one albums for ... † – Album of New Zealand origin. Year Artist Title ... Men at Work: Business as Usual: Platinum 45 10 ...