Edge (Daryl Braithwaite album)

Edge is an album by Daryl Braithwaite. It was recorded between April–September 1988 and released in November 1988. It reached No.1 on the Australian ARIA Charts[2] for 3 weeks in 1989.

Edge
Studio album by
Released4 November 1988 (1988-11-04)
RecordedMay 1988, Platinum Studios, Melbourne, Australia
GenrePop rock, Soft rock
Length54:15
LabelCBS
ProducerSimon Hussey
Daryl Braithwaite chronology
Out on the Fringe
(1979)
Edge
(1988)
Rise
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Braithwaite toured the album across Australia and New Zealand in 1989 and the album was certified 3× platinum in October 1989.[3]

Simon Hussey was nominated for Producer of the Year for Edge at the ARIA Music Awards of 1989, but lost to Age of Reason.

Track listing edit

  1. "As the Days Go By" (Ian Thomas) – 4:04
  2. "You Could Be Wrong" (Simon Hussey) – 3:22
  3. "All I Do" (Thomas) – 4:06
  4. "Let Me Be" (Hussey, David Reyne) – 5:36
  5. "Sugar Train" (Jef Scott) – 3:42
  6. "Down Down" (Scott) – 4:37
  7. "In My Life" (Chris Doheny) – 5:08
  8. "Edge (Instrumental)" (Jef Scott, Simon Hussey) – 0:34
  9. "I Don't Remember" (Peter Gabriel) – 4:09
  10. "One Summer" (Daryl Braithwaite) – 3:43
  11. "It's All in the Music" (Braithwaite, Garth Porter) – 3:40
  12. "All The Same" (Hussey, Lisa Bade, Mark Greig) – 3:57
  13. "Up-Out" (Andy Cichon, Braithwaite, Scott, John Watson, Scott Griffiths, Hussey) – 3:58
  14. "Pretending to Care" (Todd Rundgren) – 3:39

Personnel edit

Release history edit

Country Date Label Format Catalog
Australia 1988 CBS CD 462625 2
Australia 1988 CBS LP 462625 1
Australia 1988 CBS Cassette 462625 4

Chart positions edit

Weekly charts edit

Chart (1988/89) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[5] 14
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] 24

Year-end charts edit

Year-end charts (1989) Position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart 5

Singles edit

Release date Single Peak chart positions
AUS
[7]
NZ
[8]
NOR
[9]
SWE
[10]
September 1988 As the Days Go By 11 49
October 1988 All I Do 23
January 1989 One Summer 8 5 4
April 1989 Let Me Be 26
July 1989 Sugar Train
"—" denotes the single did not chart or was not released in that country

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[11] 4× Platinum 280,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also edit

List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s

References edit

  1. ^ ""Edge" by Daryl Braithwaite". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Daryl Braithwaite albums". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  3. ^ Six Moons (CD). Daryl Braithwaite. Sony Music Australia. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Daryl Braithwaite – Edge". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Daryl Braithwaite – Edge". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Daryl Braithwaite – Edge". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Daryl Braithwaite singles". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Daryl Braithwaite". charts.nz. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Daryl Braithwaite". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  10. ^ "Daryl Braithwaite". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  11. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 40.