Cosima is the self-titled debut album by Australian Idol

Australian Idol

Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...

finalist and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n singer Cosima De Vito

Cosima De Vito

Cosima De Vito , also known simply as Cosima, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as a contestant of the original Australian Idol series in 2003...

, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music

2004 in music

See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....

). The album features the Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel is a rock band that originated in Adelaide, Australia. It is one of the most acclaimed Australian rock bands of all time, with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s and huge sales that continue to this day, although its success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to...

-cover and power ballad hit single "When the War Is Over" and songs penned by American songwriter Diane Warren

Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...

. Originally conceived for the end of 2003, the recording of the album was delayed due to Cosima's acute vocal cord illness.

Chart performance

Upon its debut the album hit number two, very nearly missing the top position. The album missed out on the pole position to Maroon 5

Maroon 5

Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. While they were in high school, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Adam Levine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bass guitarist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick formed a garage band called Kara's Flowers and released one album...

's Songs about Jane

Songs about Jane

Songs About Jane is the debut album of American pop rock band Maroon 5, released June 25, 2002 on J Records and Octone Records. The album became a sleeper hit with help of five singles that attained chart success, including the Billboard hit "Harder to Breathe" and international hits "This Love"...

by a matter of a few hundred copies. While this was a very high debut for an independent artist, the following weeks saw the album drop very quickly until it was out of the Top fifty within a matter of weeks (it dropped to number fourteen in only its second week). Indeed in the subsequent weeks, due to the lack of a strong radio single, the album dropped with little to push it up except Cosima

Cosima De Vito

Cosima De Vito , also known simply as Cosima, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as a contestant of the original Australian Idol series in 2003...

's star power.

Despite its short run on the charts, the album has been a consistent seller due to various events Cosima has participated in since its release. To date it has sold over 50,000 copieshttp://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,19602813-10431,00.html.

Track listing

All songs written by Diane Warren

Diane Warren

Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...

.

1. "One Night Without You
   One Night Without You
   "One Night Without You" is a pop song written by Diane Warren. Cosima recorded the song for her debut album Cosima and a double A-side to the Cold Chisel song "When the War Is Over"....
   
   " – 4:52
2. "Cost of Love" – 3:33
3. "Show Me the Way Back to Your Heart" – 3:42
4. "What Kind of World Would This World Be" – 4:31
5. "Painted on My Heart" – 3:33
6. "Now That You Can't Have Me
   Now That You Can't Have Me
   "Now That You Can't Have Me" is the second and final single from Cosima De Vito's self-titled debut album, Cosima. Released in December 2004 following the success of "When the War Is Over", the single peaked at number forty-two on the ARIA Charts....
   
   " – 3:25
7. "Too Lost in You
   Too Lost in You
   "Too Lost in You" is a pop/R&B song covered by British girl group Sugababes from their third studio album Three . The song was released on 15 December, 2003 as the album's second single. It was written by Diane Warren and co-produced by Andy Bradfield and Rob Dougan...
   
   " – 4:37
8. "What My Heart Says" – 3:45
9. "I Just Wanna Cry" – 3:46
10. "Taste the Tears" – 3:45

Bonus CD

1. "When the War Is Over
   When the War Is Over
   "When the War Is Over" is a power ballad originally performed by Australian band Cold Chisel on their 1982 album Circus Animals. The song was written by drummer Steve Prestwich and issued as the third single from the album, peaking at #25 on the national singles chart.-Cold Chisel version:Like many...
   
   " (Steve Prestwich
   Steve Prestwich
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   ) – 3:48

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	2

Chart	Certification	Sales
Australia ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	Gold	35,000+

Personnel

• Cosima De Vito
  Cosima De Vito
  Cosima De Vito , also known simply as Cosima, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as a contestant of the original Australian Idol series in 2003...
  
   – Vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , background vocals
• Diane Warren
  Diane Warren
  Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
  
   – Songwriter
  Songwriter
  A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
  
  , producer
• Khris Kellow – Producer, keyboards, programming
• Peter Stengaard – Producer, keyboards, guitar, bass, percussions, drums, programming, background vocals
• Mario Luccy – Mixing and engineering
• Michael Anthony – Executive producer
• Julie Horton – A&R
• Josh Sklair – Guitars
• Lenny Castro – Percussion
• Thomas Stengaard – Additional programming
• Steve Marcussen – Mastering
• Shelley Roye – Design
• David Anderson – Photography
• Glenn Pokorny – Photography assistant
• Fernando Barraza – Stylist
• Jen Erdahl – Hair and make-up
• Beverley Gay – Hair and make-up