Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Imbruglia (2015)

Natalie Jane Imbruglia (born February 4, 1975 in Sydney , New South Wales ) is an Australian - British singer and songwriter , actress and model . Imbruglia became internationally known with the song Torn , released in autumn 1997, and the accompanying album Left of the Middle .

life and career

Imbruglia in Bucharest (2008)

Imbruglia grew up in the small, coastal town of Berkeley Vale (north of Sydney) in the Australian state of New South Wales . Her father, Elliot Imbruglia, is an Italian immigrant from the island of Lipari , and her mother, Maxene Anderson, is a native of Australia. Natalie is the second oldest of four sisters; her younger sister Laura is also a singer.

As before Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan , Imbruglia first played a role in the Australian soap opera Neighbors from 1991 .

Inspired by her success in that series, Imbruglia started a career as a singer in 1997. Her first single Torn , a cover version of the song Brændt by her Danish singing colleague Lis Sørensen , reached number two on the UK single charts in November 1997. Her debut album Left of the Middle sold over a million copies in the UK alone and included two other top ten hits with Big Mistake and Smoke (both 1998). In 2001 the follow-up album White Lilies Island was released , which, despite radio-friendly singles such as That Day (2001), Wrong Impression (2002) and Beauty on the Fire (2002), fell short of the sales figures of the successful debut.

Imbruglia in 2002 established her acting career continued, playing alongside Rowan Atkinson in the British spy - spoof Johnny English (2003). She also worked as a model for the French cosmetics manufacturer L'Oréal .

With the single Shiver , released in March 2005 , Imbruglia was able to post another top ten success in the British charts. Her third album, Counting Down the Days , released in April, made it to number one on the British album charts. In September 2007, the greatest hits album Glorious: The Singles 97-07 was released, including five new songs. The first single from it was the newly recorded Glorious , which was released in August 2007 in Australia and in September in Germany . In October 2009 she released her fourth studio album Come to Life , on which the single Want can be found.

In 2014 Imbruglia signed with Sony Masterworks, where she released her first studio album in five years. The album, titled times , only contains cover songs by male performers. The first single, Instant Crush , is originally from Daft Punk feat. Julian Casablancas and was published in July 2015.

Private life

On New Year's Eve 2003, Imbruglia married her compatriot Daniel Johns , the lead singer of the bands Silverchair and The Dissociatives , with whom she had been in a relationship for three years. In January 2008, they announced their divorce.

On October 9, 2019, she announced the birth of her son on her Instagram channel.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU
1997	Left of the Middle	DE4 (29 weeks) DE	AT11 (16 weeks) AT	CH3 platinum (24 weeks)CH	UK5 × 3 Triple platinum (101 weeks)UK	US10 × 2 Double platinum (52 weeks)US	AU1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (61 weeks)AU	First published: November 24, 1997
2001	White Lilies Island	DE49 (2 weeks) DE	AT59 (2 weeks) AT	CH23 (16 weeks) CH	UK15th gold (17 weeks)UK	US35 (7 weeks) US	AU3 gold (7 weeks)AU	First published: November 5, 2001
2005	Counting down the days	DE35 (4 weeks) DE	AT35 (4 weeks) AT	CH9 (14 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (17 weeks)UK	-	AU12 (7 weeks) AU	First published: April 4, 2005
2009	Come to life	-	-	CH70 (1 week) CH	-	-	-	First published: October 2, 2009
2015	times	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	CH50 (1 week) CH	UK20 (1 week) UK	-	AU25 (1 week) AU	First published: August 21, 2015

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU
2007	Glorious: The Singles 97-07	-	-	CH28 (4 weeks) CH	UK5 gold (5 weeks)UK	-	AU40 (1 week) AU	First published: September 7, 2007

More compilations

• 1998: Especial de Radio
• 2005: X2: Left of the Middle / White Lilies Island (box with 2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	AU
1997	Torn Left of the Middle	DE4th gold (24 weeks)DE	AT3 (15 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (26 weeks)CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)UK	US42 (31 weeks) US	AU2 platinum (20 weeks)AU	First published: October 27, 1997 Original: Lis Sørensen - Brændt , 1993
1998	Big mistake left of the middle	-	-	-	UK2 silver (12 weeks)UK	-	AU6th gold (21 weeks)AU	First published: February 23, 1998
	Wishing I Was There Left of the Middle	DE68 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK19 (7 weeks) UK	-	AU24 (7 weeks) AU	First published: May 18, 1998
	Smoke Left of the Middle	-	-	-	UK5 (10 weeks) UK	-	AU42 (3 weeks) AU	First published: October 5, 1998
2001	That Day White Lilies Island	-	-	CH75 (5 weeks) CH	UK11 (7 weeks) UK	-	AU10 (4 weeks) AU	First published: October 29, 2001
2002	Wrong Impression White Lilies Island	-	-	CH41 (11 weeks) CH	UK10 (7 weeks) UK	US64 (8 weeks) US	AU33 (6 weeks) AU	First published: January 29, 2002
	Beauty on the Fire White Lilies Island	-	-	-	UK26 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: July 22, 2002
2005	Shiver Counting Down the Days	DE52 (9 weeks) DE	AT41 (12 weeks) AT	CH36 (14 weeks) CH	UK8 (18 weeks) UK	-	AU19 (10 weeks) AU	First published: March 21, 2005
	Counting Down the Days Counting Down the Days	-	-	CH90 (4 weeks) CH	UK23 (6 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: July 25, 2005
2007	Glorious Glorious: The Singles 1997-2007	-	-	CH92 (1 week) CH	UK23 (5 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: August 27, 2007
2009	Want to come to life	-	-	-	UK88 (1 week) UK	-	-	First published: September 28, 2009

More singles

• 1998: intuition
• 1998: Left of the Middle
• 1999: Identify
• 2002: Sunlight
• 2005: Come on Home
• 2007: Be with You
• 2015: Instant Crush

Guest appearances and soundtracks

• Troubled by the Way We Came Together on the soundtrack for Go (1999)
• Never Tear Us Apart with Tom Jones on Reload (1999)
• Identify on the soundtrack to the movie Stigmata (1999) - in August 1999 in the US as a single published
• Cold Air on the soundtrack to the film Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) (2001)
• Pineapple Head on She Will Have Her Way (2005)
• All the Magic featured on the Winx Club soundtrack : The Mystery of the Lost Kingdom (2008)
• Torn on the soundtrack for Kokowääh (2011)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2020: for the single Torn  France 1997: for the single Torn 1998: for the album Left of the Middle  Italy 2017: for the single Torn  Mexico 1999: for the album Left of the Middle  New Zealand 1998: for the single Torn  Netherlands 1998: for the album Left of the Middle 1998: for the single Torn  Norway 1998: for the single Torn  Sweden 1998: for the album Left of the Middle

Platinum record  Belgium 1998: for the single Torn 1998: for the album Left of the Middle  New Zealand 1998: for the album Left of the Middle  Spain 1999: for the album Left of the Middle 2 × platinum record  Europe 1999: for the album Left of the Middle 3 × platinum record  Canada 1998: for the album Left of the Middle

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	490,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	350,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	3 × platinum3	300,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	-	75,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	platinum1	22,500	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	100,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	5,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	-	platinum1	100,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	3 × gold3	5 × platinum5	2,600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	17 × gold17th	23 × platinum23

Filmography (selection)

Imbruglia at the 61st Cannes Film Festival (2008)

• 1992–1994: Neighbors ( Neighbors , TV series, 149 episodes)
• 2002: Robbie the reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe ( animated TV film, voice)
• 2003: Johnny English - The Spy Who Broken It (Johnny English)
• 2009: Closed for Winter
• 2013: Underdogs
• 2014: Among Ravens
• 2015: Little Loopers

swell

1. ↑ Imbruglia's dual citizenship
2. ↑ Torn at COVER.INFO
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US AU

Web links

Commons : Natalie Imbruglia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Natalie Imbruglia's official website
• Natalie Imbruglia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Natalie Imbruglia on MusicBrainz (English)
• Natalie Imbruglia at laut.de
• Natalie Imbruglia at Allmusic (English)
• Natalie Imbruglia at Discogs (English)
• Further links on the subject of Natalie Imbruglia in the Open Music Project - MusicMoz (English)
• Discography at australian-charts.com