mish-mash of all these different influences coming together. So I had to learn to say my piece and stick up for myself. I realized that if the audience was going to believe it, it had to be real and if it was going to be real it had to come from me." Critical reception and commercial performance Audio Out received acclaim from the Australian music press. Tim Cashmere of the Australian magazine, Undercover, states that the album is full of "catchy guitar-pop tunes more aimed at a generic market than Abrahams' club hit ["Addicted to Bass"]." Tim Duggen of Rolling Stone magazine, states that Amiel could be Australia's answer to Jewel, "as the music melts into the background." Duggen's states "It is perfect pop in a way that only years of writing and production can produce, but it's also soulless and easily disposable." Ending the review, he states "It's light, it's sweet, but don't expect any revelations, just 11 fucking love songs." Australian dance music magazine, In the Mix, gave the album a "thumbs up for a sophisticated electronic pop gem", stating "If your [sic] a fan of pop then this record will exceed your expectations, for the more dance orientated crowd who are thirsty for more of the same old Amiel stuff, you may find yourself a little surprised at the change but still quite satisfied with quite a few tracks especially the Josh/Amiel collaborations." Audio Out was commercially successful in Australia and Japan. In late August 2003, it debuted at number seventeen on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. The album dropped out of the top fifty after five weeks and spent ten weeks in the top one hundred, leaving at number ninety-three. The Australian Recording Industry Association awarded the album a gold certification for shipping 35,000 copies. At the 2003 ARIA Awards, the album was nominated for "Breakthrough Artist - Album" and "Best Pop Release", but lost both awards to Innocent Eyes by Delta Goodrem. In Japan, the album debuted on the Japan Oricon Albums Chart in February 2004 and went to peak at number twenty. It spent nineteen weeks in the chart and sold an excess of 18,824 copies. Singles "Lovesong", the first single, became Amiel's most-successful single release, reaching number six on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. Written by Amiel herself, she states that the song is quite autobiographical, she states "I went out with this