songwriter Audius Mtawarira at her home in Sydney. The two originally met in 2001 and Goodrem states "Audius and I got on really well and someone at the record company suggested we write together. He came out to our house, mum made some lunch and we wrote four songs. 'Born To Try' was the last one. We just naturally clicked and there was no pressure so it was just music for music's sake". Musically, "Born to Try" is a lowtempo pop song, with influences of piano pop and pop rock. The song fuses instrumentations including piano, guitars (acoustic and electric) and drums. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is written in the key of Ab major. The song's beat is set in common time, and moves at a tempo of 66 beats per minute. Goodrem's vocals span from the note of F3 to the note of Ab5. Reception "Born to Try" was praised by certain music critics. Matthew Chisling from Allmusic said, along with "Longer" and "Innocent Eyes"; "[...] are pop gems in purest form." The song was highlighted as a standout from the album. Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian said the song along with the album's lyrical content "[...] are a bit la-la-floating-on-clouds, but that doesn't dilute their charm." The song received many accolades from many nominations. The song won two awards at the ARIA Music Awards; both for Best Single and Best Breakthrough Artist. The song had won the International Viewers' Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003. The Video Hits show won the Video of the Year award. Commercially, the song was successful and has been known as Goodrem's signature song. The song debuted at number three on the Australian Singles Chart, and eventually peaked at number one for a sole week. The song spent a total of twenty-two weeks in the charts and was certified triple-platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), selling over 220,114 copies in that country. After the releases of her other singles off the album, which subsequently peaked at number one, it gave her a record for becoming the first ever artist to have five number-one singles from a debut album. It spent three months in the top five and ranked within the top 10 of the Australian year-end charts for both 2002 and 2003. The song debuted at number