Beautiful Hum

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{{Infobox album

| name = Beautiful Hum

| type = studio

| artist = Small Mercies

| cover = Beautiful Hum.jpg

| alt =

| released = 24 May 2008

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 42:32

| label =

| producer = Matt Wallace

| prev_title = Off the Record

| prev_year = 2006

| next_title =

| next_year =

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Beautiful Hum

| type = Studio

| single1 = Innocent

| single1date = 2 June 2007

| single2 = Sorry

| single2date = 6 October 2007

| single3 = Don't You Know Who I Am?

| single3date = 12 April 2008

}}

}}

Beautiful Hum is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Small Mercies, released through Sony BMG on 24 May 2008.[http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=2108850 Small Mercies/Beautiful Hum CD]{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Sanity.com.au. Retrieved: 2008-06-15

Singles

Small Mercies released three singles from the album. The first being "Innocent", which was released nearly a full year before the album in June 2007. The song was nominated for the ARIA award for Breakthrough Artist – Single in 2007. "Innocent" reached No. 38 on the ARIA Charts and stayed in the top fifty for nine weeks. It also appeared on the Channel 7 television advertisement for Prison Break. The second single "Sorry", was released on 6 October 2007, and reached No. 54 on the ARIA Charts. "Don't You Know Who I Am?" was released to wide radio airplay and as a digital single on 12 April 2008, it was also on a television advertisement for the Australian TV series, Gladiators.

Track listing

  1. "Come On" – 3:29
  2. "Sorry" – 4:19
  3. "Innocent" – 4:21
  4. "Almost Perfect" – 3:40
  5. "Stand on the Outside" – 3:40
  6. "Beautiful Hum" – 3:43
  7. "The Trouble with You and Me" – 3:51
  8. "Don't You Know Who I Am?" – 3:56
  9. "Feels Like Fire" – 3:52
  10. "Save Me" – 3:46
  11. "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?" – 4:02
  12. "Hang On" (Australian iTunes bonus track)

Charts

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|+ Chart performance for Beautiful Hum

! scope="col"| Chart (2008)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (ARIA){{cite Ryan|page=256}}

| 54

References

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Category:2008 debut albums

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