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:
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
why American men think that success is everything
when they know that eighty percent of them are not
going to succeed more than to just keep going and why
if they are not why do they not keep on being
interested in the things that interested them when
they were college men and why American men different
from English men do not get more interesting as they
get older.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)