A Place I've Never Been

Infobox Album |
Name = A Place I've Never Been
Type = studio
Artist = Kate DeAraugo


Released = December 12, 2005 (Australia)
Recorded = November— December 2005
Genre = Pop rock
Length = 37:52
Label = Sony BMG
Producer = Matthew Gerrard, Bryon Jones, Pete Lewinson, Steve Lewinson, Michael Szumowski, Paul Wiltshire, Adam Reily, Victoria Wu
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "A Place I've Never Been" (2005)
Next album = Singles
Name = A Place I've Never Been
Type = studio
single 1 = Maybe Tonight
single 1 date = November 27 2005
single 2 = Faded
single 2 date = February 19 2006

"A Place I've Never Been" is the first album and studio album by "Australian Idol" series three winner Kate DeAraugo, released in Australia on December 12 2005 (see 2005 in music) by Sony BMG. The album has a mixture of genre between pop rock and ballad songs — some written by Brooke McClymont, Jewel Kilcher and The Veronicas. A cover version of the Bryan Adams song "Heaven" was featured on the album. The album produced DeAraugo's first number-one single on the ARIA Charts and the album was certified platinum by ARIA selling seventy thousand copies around Australia.

Reception

Like the single, the album was compared to the other two Idol winner's Guy Sebastian with "Just as I Am" (which sold over 163,000 copies in its first week, hit number-one and was certified 6x platinum) and Casey Donovan with "For You" (which sold over 35,800 copies in its first week, hit number two and was certified 3x platinum) but DeAraugo replied with that she does not care about the comparison. The album made it's debut on the charts at number ten on the Australian ARIA Charts with 15,600 copies sold in its first week and was stated to be the "Lowest Selling Platinum Album of All Time". [cite web|title="Lowest Selling Platinum Album of All Time"|url=http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/dec05/20051219_idol.html|accessdate=August 31|accessyear=2006] On the second week on being in the charts the album fell to number twenty-two with sales of just 11,000 but by its third week it re-entered the top twenty at number seventeen but dropped nine places after. The album fell fast out of the top fifty from going number twenty-six to number thirty-six to number forty-three then to number forty-six. The album rose five spots the next week but fell out of the top fifty the next only spending eight weeks in it. The album went to spend eleven more weeks in the top one hundred making two rises and leaving at number eighty-four with spending nineteen weeks in the chart. The album became the ninetieth highest selling album in Australia for 2006.

The singles released from "A Place I've Never Been" were successful in Australia. "Maybe Tonight" was the first song released from the album and was the "Australian Idol" winner's single for 2005 and topped the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for two and was accredited Platinum by ARIA. The song was nominated for "Highest Selling Single" for 2006 and was the fifty-first highest selling single for 2005 and forty-ninth for 2006."Faded" was the second song released from the album and peaked in the top ten in Australia at number eight and was the sixty-sixth highest selling single for 2006.

Track listing

#"Faded" (Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Jessica Origliasso, Lisa Origliasso) – 3:30
#"Maybe Tonight" (Dave Bassett, Jess Cates, Lindy Robbins) – 3:38
#"Heaven" (Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance) – 4:07
#"World Stands Still" (Andy Love, Steve Lewinson, Pete Lewinson) – 3:58
#"Famous for Leaving" (Andrew Dodd, Brooke McClymont, Adam Watts) – 4:15
#"If This Is Love" (Guy Chambers, Kara DioGuardi, Jewel Kilcher) – 3:44
#"Victim" (Dave Anthony, Adam Reily) - 2:47
#"It's Obvious" (Glenn Cunningham, Carmen Smith) – 3:56
#"You Brought the Sunshine" (Cunningham) – 4:12
#"The Most Beautiful Place" (Robbins, Cates, Tom Leanard) – 3:59

Charts

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