Rise (Daryl Braithwaite album)

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Rise
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Studio album by
Released23 November 1990 (1990-11-23)
RecordedJuly–October 1990, Metropolis Audio, Melbourne, Australia
Genre Pop rock, Soft rock
Label CBS
Producer Simon Hussey
Daryl Braithwaite chronology
Edge
(1988)
Rise
(1990)
Higher Than Hope
(1991)

Rise is an album by Daryl Braithwaite released in November 1990. The album reached No. 3 on the Australian ARIA Charts. [1] It was the best-selling album in Australia in 1991. [2] The album sold over 300,000 copies in Australia. [3]

Contents

Braithwaite was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Male Artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 1991 for Rise, but lost to Chain Reaction by John Farnham.

Braithwaite commenced a national tour on 26 December 1990 in Warrnambool. [4]

Although this album was not officially released in the U.S., it includes what would become Braithwaite's biggest stateside hit, "Higher Than Hope", which reached number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune appeared as the title track for a compilation album, Higher Than Hope , which was released to the American market in 1991. [5]

The album was certified 4× platinum in Australia in 2016. It was written based on his travel to China as a tourist in 1989.

Track listing

  1. "Rise" (Paul Read, Danny McCarthy)
  2. "Nothing to Lose" (Mike Caen, Steve Bull)
  3. "Modern Times" (Roger Hart, Paul Bell)
  4. "Ghost There Waiting" (Jef Scott)
  5. "Waters Rising" (Simon Hussey)
  6. "Higher Than Hope" (Simon Hussey, Daryl Braithwaite)
  7. "Don't Hold Back Your Love" (David Tyson, Richard Page, G. O'Brien)
  8. "The Horses" (Rickie Lee Jones, Walter Becker)
  9. "Where the Famous Came Out to Play" (Jef Scott)
  10. "I Can See Higher Than Before" (Daryl Braithwaite)
  11. "Poverty Dancing" (Phil Manikiza)
  12. "Goodbye Blue Sky" (Simon Hussey, James Reyne)

Personnel

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog
Australia1990 CBS CD467675 2

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (1990–92)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 3

Year-end charts

Year-end charts (1991)Position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart [2] 1

Singles

Release dateSinglePeak chart positions
AUS
[8]
US
[9]
November 1990"Rise"23
January 1991"The Horses"1
May 1991"Higher Than Hope"2847
August 1991"Don't Hold Back Your Love"55
January 1992"Nothing to Lose"100
"—" denotes the single did not chart or was not released in that country

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [10] 4× Platinum280,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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