 Success in the American music industry was, and still is, a relatively rare occurrence for Australian artists and the success of "Mouth" in the US gave Bainbridge superstar status in her home country for a period.Ross Fraser stated that he thought she would have had more chance of success in Europe and what happened in the US came as a surprise.The song spent a total of thirty weeks in the US charts and was the thirty-seventh highest selling single for 1996.