Counting Down the Days is the third studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Australia

Australia

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n singer Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit,...

 released by Brightside Recordings in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 on 4 April 2005. The album included the two singles "Shiver

Shiver (Natalie Imbruglia song)

"Shiver" is Natalie Imbruglia's first single from her third album release Counting Down the Days and it is her 8th single overall. The song and the music video received a lot of airplay on radio stations and music channels. It is considered a turntable hit worldwide, charting in some countries and...

" and "Counting Down the Days

Counting Down the Days (song)

"Counting Down the Days" is the second and final single from Natalie Imbruglia's third album, Counting Down the Days. It is considerably less successful than "Shiver", but it still managed to keep the album in the charts for some time. It reached number twenty-three in the UK and number fifty-two...

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The album entered the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 charts at #1, selling over 40,000 copies in its first week and becoming her highest charting release there. It is certified Gold in the UK and has sold approximately 600,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

1. "Starting Today" (Kara DioGuardi
   Kara DioGuardi
   Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...
   
   , Martin Harrington
   Martin Harrington
   Martin Harrington is a British songwriter and record producer based in Los Angeles. He has written and produced for many artists including Celine Dion, Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia. The international hit song "Love at First Sight" by Kylie Minogue, which he co-wrote, was nominated for both...
   
   , Ash Howes, Imbruglia) – 2:53
2. "Shiver
   Shiver (Natalie Imbruglia song)
   "Shiver" is Natalie Imbruglia's first single from her third album release Counting Down the Days and it is her 8th single overall. The song and the music video received a lot of airplay on radio stations and music channels. It is considered a turntable hit worldwide, charting in some countries and...
   
   " (Imbruglia, Shep Solomon, Eg White
   Eg White
   Francis Anthony "Eg" White is a British musician, songwriter and producer. White is primarily known for his work with successful commercial pop acts such as Adele, Duffy, Will Young and James Morrison...
   
   ) – 3:40
3. "Satisfied" (Daniel Johns
   Daniel Johns
   Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...
   
   ) – 3:26
4. "Counting Down the Days
   Counting Down the Days (song)
   "Counting Down the Days" is the second and final single from Natalie Imbruglia's third album, Counting Down the Days. It is considerably less successful than "Shiver", but it still managed to keep the album in the charts for some time. It reached number twenty-three in the UK and number fifty-two...
   
   " (Imbruglia, Matt Prime) – 4:07
5. "I Won't Be Lost" (Harrington, Howes, Imbruglia) – 3:50
6. "Slow Down" (Imbruglia, White) – 3:30
7. "Sanctuary" (Gary Clark
   Gary Clark
   Gary C. Clark is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the Washington Redskins , Phoenix Cardinals and Miami Dolphins .-Early life:...
   
   , Imbruglia) – 3:06
8. "Perfectly" (Imbruglia, Steve Robson, Solomon, Paul Westcott) – 3:21
9. "On the Run" (DioGuardi, Harrington, Howes, Imbruglia) – 3:36
10. "Come on Home" (Dan Glendining
    Dan Glendining
    Daniel Glendining is a British musician, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:In early 90's Dan was Blinder band frontman. In 1992, he left Blinder and formed the band Headswim with his brother, the drummer Tom Glendining. Headswim released 2 albums by Sony Music, but commercially the band...
    
    ) – 3:53
11. "When You're Sleeping" (Clark, Imbruglia) – 3:03
12. "Honeycomb Child" (Imbruglia, David Kosten) – 4:11

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	12
Austrian Albums Chart	35
Canadian Albums Chart	96
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart	59
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart	21
Dutch Albums Chart	50
European Top 100 Albums	8
French Albums Chart	22
German Albums Chart	35
Irish Albums Chart	12
Italian Albums Chart	10
Spanish Albums Chart	66
Swiss Albums Chart	9
UK Albums Chart	1

Sales

Country	Certification	Sales
Australia	—	30,000
Brazil	—	4,000
France	—	38,000
Italy	Gold	50,000+
Russia	Gold	10,000
United Kingdom	Gold	204,900

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	4 April 2005	Brightside Recordings	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	B0007YH6AG
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...	11 April 2005			82876679672
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	20 April 2005	Sony BMG Japan		BVCP-24064
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	25 April 2005	Brightside Recordings		B0007TF19Y
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	9 September 2005	Sony Music Canada Inc.		B0007TF19Y