Out of the Blue (song)
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| "Out of the Blue" | ||
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| Single by Delta Goodrem | ||
| from the album Mistaken Identity | ||
| B-side(s) | "Visualise" "Beautiful Madness" |
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| Released | October 8, 2004 (Australia) | |
| Format | CD single | |
| Recorded | London, 2004 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 4:19 | |
| Label | Sony-BMG | |
| Writer(s) | Delta Goodrem Guy Chambers |
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| Producer(s) | Guy Chambers Richard Flack Steve Power |
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| Certification | Platinum (ARIA) | |
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| Delta Goodrem singles chronology | ||
| "Predictable" (2003) |
"Out of the Blue" (2004) |
"Mistaken Identity" (2005) |
"Out of the Blue" (2004) is the first song released by Delta Goodrem from her second album Mistaken Identity.
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[edit] Song Information
The song was written by Delta Goodrem and Guy Chambers and recorded in London. The song was rumoured to be about her then boyfriend Mark Philippoussis, after their break-up in 2005 Delta said she found a new meaning for the song. Delta first peformed the single live at the ARIA Awards October 17, 2004 and that night the song debut at number one on the ARIA Charts, making Delta's sixth number one in Australia.
[edit] Chart Performance
In its first week in the chart the song debut and number one on the ARIA Charts and stayed there for three weeks. The song went Platinum in its first week. It spent a total of sixteen weeks in the top fifty ending the run at position fifty and spent twenty three weeks in the top one hundred. It was the twentieth highest selling single in Australia for 2004.
The song peaked all over the world. It peaked in the top twenty in Greece, Ireland and New Zealand. It peaked at number nine in the United Kingdom and spent a total of nine weeks in the top seventy five ending its run at number seventy five.
[edit] Music Video
The video for her single was filmed on the coast of Malibu, California and was directed by Nigel Dick. The start of the video opens up to Delta sitting on a beach in a green dress. After a while Delta gets up and walks across the beach with the waves washing on her feet. When the chorus comes around the second time Delta has changed into a pink dress and walks up a hill into a forest and finds her piano and starts playing it. After she has finished playing it the piano catches on fire and Delta sings at the camera then runs away ending the video.
[edit] Track listing
- "Out of the Blue" — 4:19
- "Visualise" — 4:00
- "Beautiful Madness" — 3:04
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 1 (3) |
| UK Singles Chart | 9 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 14 |
| Greece Singles Chart | 14 |
| Ireland Singles Chart | 15 |
| Austria Singles Chart | 46 |
| Germany Singles Chart | 54 |
| Switzerland Singles Chart | 60 |
[edit] External links
| Preceded by: "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon5 |
ARIA (Australia) number one single October 17, 2004 - November 6, 2004 |
Succeeded by: "Just Lose It" by Eminem |
| Delta Goodrem |
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| Albums: Innocent Eyes | Mistaken Identity |
| Singles: "I Don't Care" | "Born to Try" | "Lost Without You" | "Innocent Eyes" | "Not Me, Not I" | "Predictable" "Out of the Blue" | "Mistaken Identity" | "Almost Here" | "A Little Too Late" | "Together We Are One" |
| DVDs: Delta | The Visualise Tour: Live in Concert |
| Full discography |
