were able to correspond within a Garbage-themed environment that included the "Androgyny" audio, a Flash montage of the band, a hyperlink to Launch.com to view the "Androgyny" video and a link to Yahoo! Music to purchase the new album. Following September 11, "Androgyny" lost any momentum at US radio; barely hanging on at Triple-A, where it was averaging around 100-150 plays a week. "[In the weeks following 9/11] radio banished all sorts of songs, anything weird at all. "Androgyny" wasn't going to fly for a second", Duke recalled. To set up the release of both "Androgyny" and Beautiful Garbage, PIAS France serviced the video for "Androgyny" to music stations on September 13; "Androgyny" was playlisted by radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2, RTL, France Inter, Ouï FM, Sud Radio, FIP, WIT FM, Alouette FM, Le Moev' and Couleur 3, and by music channels MCM and MTV France, with specials broadcast by France 3 and M6 PIAS Germany serviced the music video to stations where it was playlisted by RTL II, VIVA, VIVA2, MTV Central and Onyx.tv; "Androgyny" was also well received by German radio, where it peaked at No. 57 on their airplay chart. On September 24, PIAS released a maxi CD single across Europe. In some countries such as Netherlands and Italy, PIAS also issued a two-track CD single; PIAS France imported the 12" single from the UK to distribute to national music stores. After its fifth week at radio, "Androgyny" reached No. 17 on the European airplay chart; the following week the song debuted and peaked at No. 70 on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. In the weeks after the Beautiful Garbage album debuted at No. 2 across Europe, "Androgyny" peaked at No. 11 on the airplay chart. In Russia, "Androgyny" peaked at No. 2 on Music & Media'''s airplay chart. For the release of "Androgyny" in Australia, FMR set a radio premiere date of August 24 across the two countries, confident from early album previews across airplay formats that the single would potentially receive massive radio support. "Androgyny" became Garbage's first Top 10 Airplay hit in Australia. The physical single was released on September 24 as a maxi single featuring "Begging Bone", and the two Felix da Housecat and The Architechs remixes. "Androgyny" charted at No. 21 on the ARIA Charts and at No. 36 on the RIANZ singles chart. "Androgyny" stayed on the Australian chart