Savage Garden is the debut studio album by Australian pop duo Savage Garden, released on 24 March 1997 in Australia by Columbia Records and Roadshow Music. The album won the award for Highest Selling Album at the 12th Annual ARIA Music Awards, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide, according to Billboard magazine. In September 1997, Savage Garden won a record ten ARIA Awards from 13 nominations for the album and associated singles.

Singles

  • "I Want You" was released in July 1996 as the group's debut single under Roadshow Music and Warner Music. It peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart and on the 1996 End of Year Singles Chart, becoming the highest-selling single of 1996 by an Australian artist. The following year at the ARIA Awards 1998, the album won two more awards—Highest Selling Album award and Outstanding Achievement Award. In October 2010, Savage Garden was listed in the top 40 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. In December 2021, the album was listed at no. 9 in Rolling Stone Australia’s ‘200 Greatest Albums of All Time’ countdown.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones; all tracks are produced by Charles Fisher and Chris Lord-Alge, except where noted

B-sides

  1. "Promises" – B-side to "I Want You" and "Truly Madly Deeply", included on the international version of the album
  2. "Mine" (later subtitled as "Mine (And You Could Be)") – B-side to "I Want You", included on the album in Australia and Japan, and the bonus remix disc in Asia
  3. "All Around Me" – B-side to "To the Moon and Back", included on the album in Australia, and the bonus remix disc in Asia
  4. "Fire Inside the Man" – B-side to "I Want You"
  5. "Memories Are Designed to Fade" – B-side to "To the Moon and Back"
  6. "This Side of Me" – B-side to "Truly Madly Deeply" and "Universe"
  7. "Love Can Move You" – B-side to "Truly Madly Deeply", "Universe" and "Tears of Pearls", included on the bonus remix disc in Asia
  8. "I'll Bet He Was Cool" – B-side to "Truly Madly Deeply" and "Break Me Shake Me", included on the bonus remix disc in Asia

Personnel

  • Darren Hayes – lead and background vocals
  • Daniel Jones – keyboards, sequencing, lead and rhythm guitars, background vocals
  • Terepai Richmond – drums, percussion
  • Alex Hewetson – bass
  • Rex Goh – rhythm and lead guitars
  • Jackie Orzaczky – strings orchestration and conducting
  • Written by Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones
  • Produced by Charles Fisher except "Santa Monica", which is produced by Savage Garden
  • Vocals arranged by Darren Hayes, Charles Fisher and Jim Bonnefond
  • Strings arranged by Daniel Jones
  • Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge except "Truly Madly Deeply", "Tears of Pearls" and "Universe", which were mixed by Mike Pela and "Santa Monica" which was mixed by Oliver Jones.
  • Mastered by Vlado Meller
  • Album cover and inside photography of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Yelena Yemchuk
  • Design by Aimee Macauley

Charts

Weekly charts

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!scope="row"|Czech Albums (IFPI CR)

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| 4

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!scope="row"|Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)

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| 49

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!scope="row"| Taiwanese International Albums (IFPI)

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!scope="row"|Zimbabwean Albums (ZIMA)

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! scope="row"| UK Vinyl Albums

| 16

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Year-end charts

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|Australian Albums (ARIA)

| style="text-align:center;"|1

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|New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)

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!Chart (1998)

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|Australian Albums (ARIA)

| style="text-align:center;"|60

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|Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)

| style="text-align:center;"|43

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|Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

| style="text-align:center;"|99

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|European Albums (Music & Media)

|align="center"|13

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|German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)

| style="text-align:center;"|27

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|New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)

| style="text-align:center;"|27

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|Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)

| style="text-align:center;"|18

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|UK Albums (OCC)

| style="text-align:center;"|16

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|US Billboard 200

| style="text-align:center;"|9

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!Chart (1999)

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|UK Albums (OCC)

| style="text-align:center;"|84

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Decade-end charts

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| US Billboard 200

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Certifications and sales