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, released on 24 September 2000.

Chart performance

''Pet'' debuted on the

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on 29 October 2000 at number fourteen, before peaking the next week at number seven. After six weeks in the chart, it slipped out of the top fifty. The release of the second single, " Lydia", prompted the album to re-enter the chart at number forty-four on 17 December 2000. ''Pet'' spent a total of thirty weeks in the chart.

Singles

''Pet'' spawned five singles. "Now" and "Holy", the album's first two singles, were not commercially successful, failing to appear on any

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. The third single, " Lydia", went to number-one on the

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on 24 December 2000, succeeding "

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" by Destiny's Child. The song spent one week in the top spot,No charts were published from 25 December 2000 to 13 January 2001. "Lydia" was therefore only number one for one chart. knocked off by the

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' " Shape of My Heart". "Lydia" spent nineteen weeks in the chart. "Andrew" (which was initially called "Sorry" on the media reference CD of 4/5/2000) peaked at number twenty-four on the singles chart, spending a total of fifteen weeks there, while "Spinning a Line", the album's fifth and final single, spent three weeks in the New Zealand Singles Chart, peaking at number forty.

Track listing

All songs written by

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, Andrew Bain, Simon Braxton, and Steve Wells. # "Andrew" - 3:46 # "Holy" - 2:55 # "Now" - 3:04 # "Loaded" - 5:44 # " Lydia" - 4:15 # "Hauling You Around" - 5:44 # "Not Your Girl" - 5:46 # "Spinning a Line" - 5:05 # "Two Days" - 3:51 # "Brightest Star" - 4:00 # "Short Way To Fall" - 5:48 # "Man In A Box" - 4:57 (2 minutes and 3 seconds of silence follows) # "Bottles And Jars" ( hidden track) - 8:25 :Source:

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Personnel

* Andrew Bain - bass, keyboards * Simon Braxton - drums,

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, vocals * Mike Gibson -

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* Sam Gibson - mastering,

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* Steve King - assistant

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* Becky Nunes - photography * Steve Smart - mastering * Jade Weaver - artwork * Andrew B. White - artwork * Steven Wells - guitar, vocals :Source:

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References

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