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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 Certifications; AUS [4] NZ [5] '81–'85: Released: November 1985; Label: Columbia (SBP 82113) Formats: CD, cassette, LP; Note: re-released in 1992 as The Works; 42 — ARIA: Platinum [17] Contraband: The Best of Men at Work: Released: 1995; Label: Columbia, Legacy (484011 2) Formats: CD, cassette — 36 The ...
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]
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.
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.
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The album is a career-retrospective for Hay: he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work, and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay's solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog, while several others are remixes or re-recordings of material from his solo albums.
"Who Can It Be Now?" is a song by Australian band Men at Work. It was released in Australia in 1981, prior to the recording of their 1981 debut album Business as Usual, on which the track was later included.