Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden

Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden is a compilation album released by Australian pop duo Savage Garden.

Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
Greatest hits album by Savage Garden
Released	1 November 2005
Recorded	1995–2005
Genre	Pop, pop rock, soft rock
Length	68:00
Label	Columbia
Producer	Mark Endert
Savage Garden chronology
Affirmation: The B-Sides (2000) Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden (2005) The Singles (2015)
Singles from Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden
"So Beautiful" Released: 31 October 2005

Background

The album was released worldwide on 1 November 2005, within the exception of the United States, where it was not available until 4 February 2006. The album was released to commemorate Savage Garden's tenth year in the music industry, and their overwhelming success, despite only releasing two albums—Savage Garden and Affirmation. The album was originally planned for release in 2003, containing thirteen of the band's singles, minus "Chained to You", and two bonus tracks—"All Around Me" and "I Don't Care".^[1] However, due to contractual issues, the album release was cancelled. In 2005, Hayes and Columbia records came together to organise a similar release, to be made available in the fourth quarter of 2005. Released on 1 November 2005, the album contains ten of the group's singles, all digitally remastered, in addition to five non-album B-Sides, as well as two new solo tracks from Hayes, "California" and "So Beautiful", the latter of which was released as a single on 31 October 2005, to promote the compilation. The album was made available with four different colour sleeves. A limited edition version of the album, containing a bonus DVD, was made available in Australia and Japan. The DVD contained seven music videos and a documentary video on the duo. Till August 2006, the album sold 31,000 in United States.^[2]

Track listing

1. "I Want You" – 3:53 from Savage Garden
2. "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:11 from Affirmation
3. "To the Moon and Back" – 5:42 from Savage Garden
4. "Hold Me" – 4:52 from Affirmation
5. "Santa Monica" – 3:36 from Savage Garden
6. "Crash and Burn" – 4:42 from Affirmation
7. "Break Me Shake Me" – 3:25 from Savage Garden
8. "Truly Madly Deeply" – 4:39 from Savage Garden
9. "The Animal Song" – 4:39 from Affirmation
10. "Affirmation" – 4:58 from Affirmation
11. "So Beautiful" – 4:58 Previously unreleased
12. "California" – 6:00 Previously unreleased
13. "I Don't Care" – 5:05 B-Side from Affirmation
14. "I'll Bet He Was Cool" – 4:41 B-Side from Break Me Shake Me
15. "Love Can Move You" – 4:47 B-Side from Universe
16. "Fire Inside the Man" – 4:11 B-Side from I Want You
17. "This Side of Me" – 4:11 B-Side from Universe

Deluxe edition bonus DVD

1. "I Want You" – 3:53
2. "I Knew I Loved You" – 4:11
3. "To the Moon and Back" – 5:42
4. "Hold Me" – 4:52
5. "Crash and Burn" – 4:42
6. "Break Me Shake Me" – 3:25
7. "Truly Madly Deeply" – 4:39
8. "Parallel Lives" documentary – 30:00

Chart performance and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (2005) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)^[3] 11 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[4] 13 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[5] 32 Irish Albums (IRMA)^[6] 21 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[7] 15 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[8] 31 UK Albums (OCC)^[9] 25

Year-end charts Chart (2005) Position Australian Albums (ARIA)^[10] 95 UK Albums (OCC)^[11] 140 Certifications and sales Region Certification Certified units/sales Australia (ARIA)^[12] Platinum 70,000^^ Ireland (IRMA)^[13] Platinum 15,000^^ New Zealand (RMNZ)^[14] Platinum 15,000^^ United Kingdom (BPI)^[15] Gold 100,000^^ ^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. Savage Garden Greatest Hits Japanese CD album (CDLP) (239350)
2. "Answers to readers' questions about Savage Garden's Darren Hayes, Danity Kane and City High". Billboard. 17 August 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
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13. "The Irish Charts - 2005 Certification Awards - Platinum". Irish Recorded Music Association.
14. "New Zealand album certifications – Savage Garden – Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden". Recorded Music NZ.
15. "British album certifications – Savage Garden – Truly Madly Completely: The Best of Savage Garden". British Phonographic Industry.