Australian Idol (season 1) - Commercial Releases

Commercial Releases

Since winning Australian Idol Guy Sebastian has released seven top 10 albums, with six reaching the top 5, including two #1's. His albums have all reached either platinum or multi platinum accreditation. Sebastian has also released 14 top 15 singles, with 11 reaching the top 10, including six #1's. He has the most #1 singles for an Australian male vocalist in Australian music history, and he is third overall for all Australian acts. He has a total of 40 platinum and three gold certifications in Australia, the highest accreditations for any Australian Idol contestant. Sebastian's debut album Just As I Am reached #1 and 6x platinum, eventually selling 480,000 copies. Just As I Am remains the highest selling album ever released by an Australian Idol contestant. Guy Sebastian's winner's single "Angels Brought Me Here" debuted at #1 and reached 4x platinum. The song was the highest selling single in Australia in 2003, and won the 2004 Highest Selling Single ARIA Award. In 2010 ARIA announced it was the highest selling song of the previous decade. Sebastian's second and third albums were platinum sellers. Beautiful Life peaked at #2, with Closer to the Sun reaching #4 His fourth album The Memphis Album peaked at #3 and went on to sell 2x platinum. Sebastian's next two albums Like It Like That and Twenty Ten achieved platinum certification. His seventh album "Armageddon" gained double platinum certification and became his second album to reach #1.

"Like it Like That", the triple platinum title track from his fifth album, reached #1 and was the highest selling Australian artist song of 2009. "Who's That Girl" the only single released from Twenty Ten also reached #1 and was certified 4x platinum. It was nominated for the 2011 ARIA Best Pop Release and Song of the Year, and won the Highest Selling Single ARIA. "Don't Worry Be Happy", Armageddon's lead single, reached #5 and also gained 4x platinum certification. The third single, "Battle Scars" featuring Lupe Fiasco, became his sixth #1 single in Australia, and has been certified 7x platinum. Sebastian has received 17 ARIA Awards nominations during his career. 13 of these nominations, including Best Male Artist, Best Pop Release and Single of the Year have been received since 2010. Sebastian also had success outside of Australia with his first single reaching #1 in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia and New Zealand in 2004. His first album reached #3 in New Zealand. "Angels Brought Me Here" gained platinum and Just As I Am double platinum accreditation in New Zealand. Sebastian has achieved four further top ten singles in New Zealand since then, including another #1 with "Who's That Girl", and now has a total of six platinum and two gold certifications there. In September 2012 Sebastian became the first Australian Idol contestant to chart in the US, when "Battle Scars" debuted at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, #23 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs Chart and #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Chart. "Battle Scars" also reached #2 in Norway.

Shannon Noll released his first single "What About Me?" in February 2004. It debuted at #1 and remained at the top for four weeks. It was certified 4x Platinum and was the highest selling single in Australia in 2004. His debut album That's What I'm Talking About was also a chart topper gaining 5x Platinum accreditation selling 350,000 copies. Both the single and album were nominated as highest seller at the 2004 ARIA Awards. His second album Lift also reached #1 on the ARIA charts and remained in the top 50 for 53 weeks. It was accredited 3x platinum with 210,000 copies sold. Lift received a nomination for best pop release at the 2006 ARIA Awards and the lead single "Shine" was nominated for highest selling single. "Don't Give Up" a duet with Natalie Bassingthwaighte was also nominated for highest selling single at the 2007 ARIA Awards. His third album, Turn It Up, was released in 2007 peaking at #3 and reaching platinum accreditation. His fourth album No Turning Back: The Story So Far, released in 2008 peaked at #7, and his fifth album "A Million Suns" released in 2011 reached #8. Neither of these albums reached certification. Noll has released ten top 10 singles including three #1's. He is the only artist in Australian music history to achieve ten consecutive top 10 singles. He has released seven more singles since achieving this, with two reaching the ARIA Top 50, the highest one peaking at #26. He has gained 17 platinum and three gold accreditations during his career. Noll has had some success outside Australia with his debut single What About Me reaching #2 in Ireland and #10 in New Zealand. His debut album also peaked at #31 on the New Zealand charts.

Cosima De Vito released "When the War Is Over" as her debut single in mid 2004 through her own independent label, CDV Records. It was a #1 hit and sold over 70,000 copies resulting in platinum status. Her debut self-titled album Cosima peaked at #2 on the charts and reached gold certification. Her second single "Now That You Can't Have Me" peaked at #42 on the charts. Her second album This Is Now that was released in September 2007 didn't chart in the ARIA Charts.

Paulini Curuenavuli released a debut single titled "Angel Eyes" which reached #1 and platinum certification. It stayed at the top spot for four weeks. Her debut album One Determined Heart also reached #1 and received platinum status. Her Christmas EP "Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas" peaked at #72. Her second album Superwoman reached #70. The album gave her two top 50 singles. In 2006 Paulini joined an all girl pop group called the "Young Divas" with other former Idol contestants which included Kate DeAraugo, Emily Williams, Ricki-Lee Coulter and later Jessica Mauboy. They achieved success a double platinum album and platinum and gold singles.

Rob Mills experienced a very short lived career at Sony BMG with one gold selling single "Ms. Vanity" and an album titled Up All Night which peaked at #21. He was later dropped from the label. He appeared in the Australian 2008 production of Wicked, and has also worked in television.