"Been Waiting" is a song by Australian R&B singer

Jessica Mauboy Jessica Hilda Mauboy (born 4 August 1989) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of ''Australian Idol'', where she was runner-up and subseq ...

. Written with Australian singer

Israel Cruz Israel Cruz is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. Cruz was born in Quezon City, Philippines and at the age of 3 moved to Melbourne, Australia with his family. He lives in Sydney, Australia with friends and has written and perf ...

and Craig Hardy, the song was released on 6 March 2009 as the third single from Mauboy's debut album, also titled ''

Been Waiting ''Been Waiting'' is the debut studio album by Australian recording artist Jessica Mauboy, released on 22 November 2008 by Sony Music Australia. While Mauboy was still a member of the girl group Young Divas, she began to work on what became ''B ...

''. The song peaked at number 12 on the

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and was certified gold by the

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(ARIA).

Chart performance

"Been Waiting" debuted on the

at number 29 and peaked at number 12 in its fourth week on the chart. It spent a total of 14 weeks in the ARIA top fifty including eight weeks in the top twenty. "Been Waiting" was certified gold by the

(ARIA) for selling 35,000 copies.

Music video

The music video was directed by Keri McFarlane, who had previously directed the video for "

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". It was shot at the

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on 23 February 2009. The video is set at night time and starts off with Mauboy walking through sand dunes, before hitting the nightclub to sing, while people in the background are dancing. It premiered on

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on 12 March 2009.

Live performances

Mauboy performed "Been Waiting" on ''

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'' on 22 February 2009. She also performed the song at the 2009

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on 27 March 2009. Mauboy performed the bridge from "

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" at the beginning of the performance, before switching to "Been Waiting". It became her first worldwide performance, of which aired on 62 channels in 162 countries via

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. Mauboy opened the 51st TV Week Logie Awards with a performance of the song on 3 May 2009.

Track listings

*Digital EP # "Been Waiting" – 3:48 # "Now I Know" – 4:15 # "Been Waiting" (Champion Lovers Remix) – 6:29 # "

" (Acoustic) – 3:06 # "Been Waiting" (Carl Remix) – 2:55 *CD single # "Been Waiting" – 3:48 # "Now I Know" – 4:15 # "Been Waiting" (Champion Lovers Remix) – 6:29 # "Burn" (Acoustic) – 3:06

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certification

Release history

References

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