''Innocent Eyes'' is the debut studio album by Australian singer

Delta Goodrem Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born November 9, 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Goodrem signed to Sony Music at the age of 15. Her debut album, '' Innocent Eyes'' (2003), topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 non-consecutive week ...

, released in Australia on 24 March 2003. It was later released in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2003. Goodrem co-wrote most of the material, excluding "Throw It Away", " Lost Without You" and "Butterfly". The album features two self-penned songs, "In My Own Time" and "Will You Fall for Me". Goodrem worked with writers and producers such as:

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, Vince Pizzinga and others to create the album with a collection of piano-based pop and ballad tracks. Five singles were released from the album. Its lead single "

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" was released in November 2002 and became a massive commercial success, peaking atop the

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and the

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, becoming Goodrem's most successful single to date. Follow-up singles " Lost Without You", " Innocent Eyes", " Not Me, Not I" and " Predictable" also all reached number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. Goodrem became the first artist to have five number-one singles from a debut album."Innocent Eyes – Biography"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 5 July 2007. The first three singles charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom. To promote the album, Goodrem embarked on

The Visualise Tour Delta Lea Goodrem AM (born November 9, 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Goodrem signed to Sony Music at the age of 15. Her debut album, '' Innocent Eyes'' (2003), topped the ARIA Albums Chart for 29 non-consecutive week ...

. ''Innocent Eyes'' debuted at number one on the

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, making it her first number-one album."Australian chart peak"
''Australian-charts.com''. Retrieved 25 June 2007. Altogether it sold 4.5 million copies worldwide"Delta Goodrem – Australian Idol Auditions 2009 – Delta's Intro"
YouTube. Retrieved 17 August 2008. including 1.2 million in Australia alone. ''Innocent Eyes'' is the most successful album in Australia in 19 years. It was the highest-selling album in Australia of the decade and is the second-best-selling Australian album of all time.

Background

In September 2000, Goodrem signed to

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and an album which she planned to release with independent label Empire Records was shelved. A year later, Goodrem released her debut single " I Don't Care" which peaked at number 64 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Soon after, Goodrem began working on ''Innocent Eyes''. She worked with a range of producers and songwriters, including the True North production and songwriting team:

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), Matthew Gerrard (

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), Vince Pizzinga (

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, Danielle Spencer), David Nicholas (

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. ''Innocent Eyes'' is a Pop,

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and

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album which uses mostly live

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. Talking about the album, Goodrem said: "I wanted to make an album that reflected me at this time in my life", "Every song takes me to a place where I can remember what happened." She also said: "The album is almost like a diary I have been keeping over the last two years", "Every track has a meaning behind it that's personal to me. I have been looking forward to this day for a long time and I just hope that everyone likes the music as much as I loved making it."

Lawsuit

In 2004, Goodrem had been accused of owing thousands of dollars to songwriter

. Holden wanted to clear up the terms of his contract with Goodrem and her record label

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and requested all consultancy fees owed to him under the agreement.

Critical reception

''Innocent Eyes'' received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Matthew Chisling from

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described Goodrem's presence in the music industry as a "refreshing change". He also said that, "''Innocent Eyes'' reflects a mature yet clean display of true vocal talent". Caroline Sullivan a writer for ''The Guardian'' said that "Goodrem sings her aspirational ballads with heartfelt candour, while her co-writer's credit on nearly every song seems to be more than affectation. The lyrics are a bit la-la-floating-on-clouds, but that doesn't dilute their charm".

Release and promotion

Singles

" was the first song from the album released in Australia on 11 November 2002, just a few days after Goodrem's eighteenth birthday. At the time of its release, Goodrem was performing the song on the Australian soap opera ''

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'', as singer

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. The song debuted on the

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on 18 November 2002 at number three. On its second week the song jumped to number two and was accredited platinum by

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, by its third week the song had knocked "

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off the top spot and became Goodrem's first number-one single."Delta Is #1"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 6 July 2007. The song eventually went on to certify triple platinum, becoming the fourth highest-selling single in Australia for 2003. It won three

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for Breakthrough Artist – Single, Highest Selling Single and Single of the Year."Delta Goodrem – ARIA Awards data"

. Retrieved 6 July 2007. "Born to Try" also went number-one in New Zealand and

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,"Born to Try @ acharts"
''acharts.com''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. top ten in the UK, and top twenty in Ireland and the

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."Born to Try @ top40-charts"
''top40-charts.com''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. " Lost Without You" was the second song released from the album. Released to radio on 14 February 2003, it became the most added song to radio for that week. It was released as a CD single on 3 March 2003 in Australia. The song gave Goodrem her second number one single in Australia on 10 March 2003 debuting at number one."Delta Goodrem Debuts At #1"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. The song eventually went on to certify double platinum, becoming the seventh highest selling single in Australia for 2003. It was nominated for one

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for Highest Selling Single but lost to herself with "Born to Try". "Lost Without You" also went top ten in New Zealand, Spain and the UK, and became the first of her four Number One singles in Sweden."Lost Without You @ acharts"
''acharts.com''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. On 17 April 2003 it was announced that the third song released from the album was " Innocent Eyes" which was released as a CD single on 9 June 2003. The song debuted on Australian Singles Chart the charts at number two on 16 June 2003, behind "

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" by

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, and was accredited gold."Innocent Eyes Goes Gold"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. After three weeks in the charts it moved one spot up the charts and became Goodrem's third number-one hit single in Australia. The song went to certify platinum by ARIA, becoming the eighteenth highest selling single in Australia for 2003. It was nominated for one

for Highest Selling Single but again lost to herself with Born to Try. "Innocent Eyes" also went top ten in the UK,"Innocent Eyes @ acharts"
''acharts.com''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. top twenty in New Zealand and topped the chart in Israel. " Not Me, Not I" was the fourth song released from the album in Australia on 15 September 2003. The song's music video was directed by Michael Spiccia and was filmed in August 2003. Goodrem was determined to film the music video and to have it completed before she started her second round of chemotherapy for

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because she said the song is her favourite from the album."New Video For Delta"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. The song made its debut on the Australian Singles Chart at number two behind

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's "

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". Ond on its second week it went to number-one, making it Goodrem's fourth number-one single, breaking

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's record of having the most songs released from an album to reach number-one. The single also made history when it topped the chart in Malta, making Goodrem the first Australian artist to have a Number One record (either album or single) in that country. " Predictable" was the fifth song released from the album and was released as a double

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with her version of the

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Christmas song "

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". It saw the release to radio on 25 November 2003 and topped the airplay charts,"Delta's New Single Instore"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 9 July 2007. and when it saw its physical release, it became her fifth number-one single.

Tour

Goodrem launched

in 2005 where she performed songs from ''Innocent Eyes'' and her second album ''

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''. She performed 10

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shows in Australian capital cities. The show on 24 July at

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in Sydney was filmed for inclusion on the live DVD for the concert tour entitled The Visualise Tour: Live in Concert, which was released on 13 November 2005. The DVD peaked at number one on the Australian

DVD Chart and was certified four times platinum for sales of 60,000 units.

Commercial performance

''Innocent Eyes'' debuted at number one on the Australian

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's album ''

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'' from the top spot. The album went on to spend twenty-nine weeks at number one. This broke

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's record of twenty-five weeks at number one with ''

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'' (1986)."Delta Goodrem Detailed Biography "
. ''netglimse.com''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. ''Innocent Eyes'' was then tied with

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's album ''

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'' (1972) for spending the most weeks at number one in Australian history. Its accreditation reached to fourteen times platinum."ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2003 Albums"
''

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''. Retrieved 7 July 2007 The album became the highest selling album in Australia for 2003,"ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2003"
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''. Retrieved 6 July 2007. spent eighty-seven weeks in the top one hundred, and won six

for Highest Selling Album, Best Female Artist, Breakthrough Artist – Album, Best Pop Release and

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's Oz Artist of the Year. In 2004 the album again won the award for Highest Selling Album. It went to sell over a million copies in Australia. In the UK, the album debuted on the charts at number two"Issue Date: Saturday 12 July 2003"
''acharts.us''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. behind

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's album ''

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'' (2003). It spent thirty-one weeks in the top seventy-five,"Innocent Eyes @ acharts"
. ''acharts.us''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. and became the eighteenth highest-selling album for 2003."UK Best Selling Albums 2001–2005"
. '' BPI''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. ''Innocent Eyes'' is the second highest- selling album by an Australian female singer in the 2000s, behind Kylie Minogue's album ''Fever'' which sold over six million copies worldwide. On 23 December 2003 it was announced that the one millionth copy of the album had been released to retail, the disc was specially marked by

and the buyer would receive a plaque commemorating the milestone. On 7 January 2010, ''Innocent Eyes'' was announced as Australia's top-selling album for the 2000s,"Delta Hits One Million"
. ''Deltagoodrem.com.au''. Retrieved 7 July 2007. for which Goodrem received a special award at the 2010 ARIA No. 1 Awards in Sydney on 22 July 2010.

Track listing

B-sides

The following tracks were not released on the album, but were released on the singles.

Personnel

— vocals, writer, producer, piano, keyboards, concept *Mark Russell – production coordination *Mark Fields – arranger, keyboards, producer, engineer, string arrangements, bass, guitar *

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— arranger, programming, producer, instrumentation *

— keyboards, programming, producer *

— producer, guitar *

– co-writer, producer *David Nicholas – producer, vocal engineer *

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— producer *Daniel Denholm – conductor, string arrangements *Mike Ruekberg – guitar (

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) *Steve MacKay – guitar *Mark Punch – guitar *

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— guitar *Craig Myers – guitar *Jeremy Meek – bass guitar *Chris Cameron – string arrangements *Vince Pizzinga – cello arrangement *Ameena Maria Khawaja— cello *Richard Sanford – piano *David Falzone – piano *

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— keyboards, noise *Billy Hawn – percussion *

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— drums *

— vocals (background) *Ami Richardson – vocals (background) *Bob Cadway – engineer *

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— vocal engineer *Jim Annunziatto – assistant engineer *

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— mixing *Greg Calbi – mastering *Robbie Adams – assistant *Sam Story – assistant *Blair Simmons – assistant

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

References

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Background

Lawsuit

Critical reception

Release and promotion

Singles

Tour

Commercial performance

Track listing

B-sides

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

See also

References