Counting Down

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Counting Down
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Studio album by
Released14 May 1999
Recorded1997–1999
Genre Pop
Label Sony/Columbia
Producer
Human Nature chronology
Telling Everybody
(1996)
Counting Down
(1999)
Human Nature
(2000)
Singles from Counting Down
  1. "Cruel"
    Released: August 1998
  2. "Last to Know"
    Released: March 1999
  3. "Don't Cry"
    Released: June 1999
  4. "Eternal Flame"
    Released: October 1999
  5. "Be There with You"
    Released: March 2000

Counting Down is the second studio album by Australian boy band and pop vocal group Human Nature, released on 14 May 1999.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Last to Know" (Steve Kipner, Sean Hosein, Dane DeViller) – 4:26
  2. "Cruel" (Andrew Klippel, Shep Solomon) – 5:16
  3. "Mary's Garden" (Andrew Tierney, Klippel, Michael Tierney) – 4:00
  4. "Counting Down" (Tierney, Klippel, Tierney) – 3:24
  5. "Don't Cry" (U.S. Radio Remix) (Klippel, Glass) – 3:59
  6. "Depend on Me" (Tierney, Paul Begaud, Tierney) – 4:42
  7. "Be There With You" (Tierney, Paul Begaud, Tierney) – 3:50
  8. "Bring Her Back" (Klippel, Werfel, Reswick) – 4:45
  9. "Send It in a Letter" (Klippel, Tierney, Toby Allen, Phil Burton, Tierney, Glass) – 3:58
  10. "7 Lonely Days" (Tierney, George Merril, Tierney) – 3:54
  11. "Now That I Found You" (Paul Begaud, Vanessa Corish, JD Martin) – 3:28
  12. "Temperature Rising" (Klippel, Glass) – 4:29
  13. "Everytime You Cry" (with John Farnham) (Peiken, Sutton) – 4:45
  14. "Eternal Flame" (Susanna Hoffs, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) – 3:20 / "We Can Fly Away" (hidden track) (Burton, G. Cunningham) – 3:00

Bonus disc tracks

  1. "Everytime You Cry"
  2. "Eternal Flame"
  3. "Last to Know" (Radio Remix)
  4. "Last to Know" (VV Club Remix)
  5. "Cruel" (Radio Remix)

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Counting Down
Chart (1999–2000)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [1] 1
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [2] 74

Year-end chart

Weekly chart performance for Counting Down
Chart (1999)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [3] 29

Certifications

Certifications for Counting Down
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [4] Platinum70,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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