One Determined Heart

One Determined Heart
Studio album by Paulini
Released	23 July 2004 (2004-07-23) (Australia)
Recorded	2004
Genre	Pop, R&B, soul
Length	51:04
Label	Sony Music Australia
Producer	Audius Mtawarira
Paulini chronology
One Determined Heart (2004) Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas (2004)
Singles from One Determined Heart
"Angel Eyes" Released: 2 July 2004 "We Can Try" Released: 1 October 2004

One Determined Heart is the debut studio album by Australian singer Paulini, released in Australia on 23 July 2004. The album was produced by Audius Mtawarira and has a genre of R&B & pop songs. The album mainly cover songs including some by Jeff Healey, TLC, The Four Tops, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Buckley and Bonnie Raitt. It was originally to have included a cover of the Negativland hit "U2", but this was rejected by her record company. The album debuted at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart making it her highest selling album to date. The singles released from the album became hits in Australia; "Angel Eyes" becoming her first number-one single and "We Can Try" becoming her second top thirty single. "Angel Eyes" was nominated at the 2004 ARIA Awards for "Highest Selling Single" and won her two ARIA #1 Chart Awards, both for the single and album.

Background

The album reflects Paulini as a performer and a music lover and has a diverse collection of songs that have a variety of genres; covers and originals. She states "Because I did so many styles on Idol, people kept saying, are you going to come out with something like Beyonce, or are you going to come out with something like Mariah? This album is very different. I love R&B but I love to sing other stuff, like old soul and funk. I'm just happy that I've got all different styles on the album - it's about who I am, because I enjoy singing every musical genre."^[1] She also states "I absolutely love those songs [on the album]. I just wanted to try and do something different to them. They were a little hard, because the artists are so good. I basically just sung them the way I would sing them, with my kind of tone, so that listeners would instantly know it was me."^[2]

Chart performance

The album debuted on the ARIA Albums Chart on 30 July 2004 at number-one^[3] It stayed at number-one for two weeks and had gone gold selling about thirty-five thousand copies around Australia. The album was certified platinum for 70, 000 copies shipped in Australia. It was the eighty-sixth best selling album in Australia for 2004.

Chart (2004)	Peak position	Certification
ARIA Albums Chart[3]	1	Platinum[4]

Track listing

1. "Angel Eyes" (John Hiatt, Fred Koller) – 4:01
2. "If You Love Me" – 3:54
3. "You Little Trustmaker" – 3:27
4. "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland) – 4:30
5. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" featuring Rahsaan Patterson (Paul Jabara, Bruce Roberts) – 5:31
6. "Everybody Here Wants You" (Jeff Buckley) – 4:30
7. "We Can Try" (Audius Mtawarira, Jeneya Carr) – 3:59
8. "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Mike Reid, James Allen II Shamblin) – 4:25
9. "One More Night" – 3:36
10. "Where You Are" – 4:29
11. "Waterfalls" (Marqueze Etheridge, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Organized Noize) – 4:59
12. "One Determined Heart" – 3:39

References

1. ^ "Paulini's New Single And Album Coming Soon!". Sony BMG. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
2. ^ "Pre-order Paulini's New Album And Get Exclusive Videos!". Sony BMG. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
3. ^ ^{a b} "ARIA CHARTS - AUSTRALIAN CHARTS: ALBUMS - 8 August 2004". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
4. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2004 Albums". ARIA Charts. Retrieved 29 October 2007.

Preceded by Shrek 2 (soundtrack) by Various artists

Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album 2–15 August 2004

Succeeded by Elephunk by The Black Eyed Peas