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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Down Under
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • Number-one singles in New Zealand
  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • Plagiarism controversies
  • Number-one singles in Australia
  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • RPM Top Singles number-one singles
  • 1981 singles
  • Number-one singles in Switzerland
  • Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one singles
  • UK Singles Chart number-one singles
  • 1982 singles
  • Number-one singles in Poland
  • Songs based on children's songs
  • Australian patriotic songs
  • Men at Work songs
  • Songs written by Colin Hay
abstract
  • %22Down Under%22 (also known as %22Land Down Under%22) is a song recorded by Australian rock band Men at Work. It was originally released in 1980 as the B-side to their first local single titled %22Keypunch Operator%22, released before the band signed with Columbia Records. Both early songs were written by the group's co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. The early version of %22Down Under%22 has a slightly different tempo and arrangement than the later Columbia release. The most well known version was then released on Columbia in October 1981 as the third single from their debut album Business as Usual (1981).The song went to number one in their home country of Australia in December 1981, and then topped the New Zealand charts in February 1982. Released in North America in mid-1982, the song topped the Canadian charts in October. In the United States, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 November 1982 at No. 79, and reached No. 1 in January 1983 where it spent four non-consecutive weeks. It eventually sold over two million copies in the US alone. Billboard ranked it at No. 4 for 1983.In the UK, the song topped the charts in January and February 1983, and is the only Men at Work song to make the UK top 20. The song also went No. 1 in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland, and was a top 10 hit in many other countries. It has become a popular and patriotic song in Australia.
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  • Colin Hay
  • Ron Strykert
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  • 5714dedb25ac0d8aee4ac198
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  • NLB630200094
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  • Gold
  • Platinum
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  • PT221.02204081S
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  • 8486
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  • 541891
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  • english
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  • Columbia Records
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  • 1981
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  • Down Under
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