Success
"I Am Woman" was released in May 1972, first entered the Hot 100 at #99 on 24 June 1972, peaked at #97 two weeks later, fell off the Hot 100, re-entered at #87 on 16 September 1972, and finally topped the Billboard charts on 9 December 1972. The song was the first #1 hit on the Billboard chart by an Australian-born artist and the first Australian-penned song to win a Grammy Award (in her acceptance speech for Best Female Performance, Reddy thanked "God, because She makes everything possible"). It sold more than a million copies, and has been played more than a million times on US radio, and helped propel Reddy to a successful pop career which made her more than $40 million in America. As an example of the endurance of the song, it was played at the 2010 Academy Awards as the exit music for Kathryn Bigelow after she won the Best Director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," the first time a woman won the award.
"I Am Woman" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia Registry in 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word success:
“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.”
—Marie Dressler (1873–1934)