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In October of 2004 Guy released his second album "Beautiful Life". This later started his release of his first national Australian concert "The Beautiful Life" tour.

{{Infobox album

| name = Beautiful Life

| type = Album

| artist = [[Guy Sebastian]]

| cover = Guy Sebastian - Beautiful Life (album cover).jpg

| alt =

| released = 18 October 2004<ref name="Google Play">{{cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Guy_Sebastian_Beautiful_Life?id=Btnd4sguwqdcmcaxnygh3ez6yrq|title=Guy Sebastian: Beautiful Life|work=[[Google Play Music]]|accessdate=14 December 2014}}</ref>

| recorded = 2004

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = [[R&B music|R&B]], [[Pop music|pop]], [[soul music|soul]]

| length = 54:52

| label = [[Sony Music Australia|Sony BMG]]

| producer =

| prev_title = [[Just as I Am (Guy Sebastian album)|Just as I Am]]

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = [[Closer to the Sun (Guy Sebastian album)|Closer to the Sun]]

| next_year = 2006

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Beautiful Life

| type = studio

| single1 = [[Out with My Baby]]

| single1date = 26 September 2004

| single2 = [[Kryptonite (Guy Sebastian song)|Kryptonite]]

| single2date = 22 November 2004

| single3 = [[Oh Oh]]

| single3date = 6 March 2005

}}

}}

'''''Beautiful Life''''' is the second album by [[Guy Sebastian]]. It was released 18 October 2004 on [[Sony BMG|Sony BMG Australia]] and peaked at No.&nbsp;2 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]].<ref name="AUS Charts">{{cite web | url = http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Guy+Sebastian | title = Discography Guy Sebastian | last = Hung | first = Steffen | work = Australian Charts Portal | publisher = Hung Medien | accessdate = 30 April 2018 }}</ref> It was followed by the Beautiful Life concert tour of Australia. During the 8-month course of creating the album, Sebastian travelled to the United States and Europe to work with various songwriters, including [[Brian McKnight]], with whom he penned the song "Wait", and [[Robin Thicke]], whom he co-wrote a number-one charting first single, "[[Out with My Baby]]", and "Fiend for You". "How", an original by Thicke, is also included. The album reached Platinum status in Australia and eventually shipped over 100,000 copies.<ref>[http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[e-mail]/1997998.html Open Subscriber mediacare Top 10 Albums from SONYBMG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222081852/http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[e-mail]/1997998.html |date=2012-02-22 }}. Beautiful Life & Guy Facts, retrieved 16 March 2009.</ref>

==Track listing==

#"[[Out with My Baby]]" ([[Guy Sebastian]]/[[Robin Thicke]]/James Gass)

#"[[Kryptonite (Guy Sebastian song)|Kryptonite]]" (Sebastian/Beau Dozier)

#"Sweetest Berry" (Jamey Jaz/[[David Ryan Harris]])

#"Wait" (Sebastian/[[Brian McKnight]])

#"Back in the Day" (Sebastian/Fredrik "Fredro" Odesjo/Mats Berntoft)

#"[[I Wish (Stevie Wonder song)|I Wish]]" ([[Stevie Wonder]])

#"Anthem of Why" (Sebastian/Karlsson/Pontus Winnberg/Henrik Jonback)

#"Story of a Single Man" (Sebastian/Julian Bunetta)

#"How" (Thicke)

#"Forever with You" featuring [[Mýa]] (Sebastian)

#"Make Heaven Wait" (Jack Kugell/Jamie Jones/Jason Pennock/Martin Kember/David Garcia)

#"Fiend for You" (Sebastian/Thicke/Robert Daniels/James Gass)

#"[[Oh Oh]]" (Sebastian/[[Jarrad Rogers]])

#"Beautiful Life featuring [[Rahsaan Patterson]]" (Sebastian/Rogers/Rahsaan Patterson)

==Charts==

===Weekly charts===

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|-

! scope="col"| Chart (2004)

! scope="col"| Peak<br />position

|-

{{album chart|Australia|2|artist=Guy Sebastian|album=Beautiful Life|accessdate=29 November 2014|rowheader=true}}

|-

|}

===Year-end charts===

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|-

! scope="col"| Chart (2004)

! scope="col"| Position

|-

! scope="row"| Australian Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/2004/albums-chart|title=End of Year Charts – ARIA Top 100 Albums 2004|work=[[ARIA Charts]]|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]]|accessdate=4 May 2017}}</ref>

| 59

|-

! scope="row"| Australian Artist Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/2004/australian-artist-albums-chart|title=2004 ARIA AUSTRALIAN ARTIST ALBUMS CHART|work=[[ARIA Charts]]|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]]|accessdate=6 February 2018 }}</ref>

| 17

|-

|}

==Certification==

{{Certification Table Top}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Australia|artist=Guy Sebastian|title=Beautiful Life|award=Platinum|relyear=2004|certyear=2004}}

{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes}}

==Release history==

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|-

! scope="col"| Region

! scope="col"| Date

! scope="col"| Format(s)

! scope="col"| Label

! scope="col"| Catalog

! scope="col"| Ref.

|-

! scope="row"| Australia

| 18 October 2004

| {{flatlist|

* [[Compact disc|CD]]

* [[Music download|digital download]]}}

| [[Sony Music Australia|Sony BMG]]

| 82876653692

| style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="Google Play"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Beautiful Life – Guy Sebastian|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/music/Whats-Hot/pop/beautiful-life/136987/|publisher=[[JB Hi-Fi]]|accessdate=16 December 2014}}</ref>

|}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Guy Sebastian}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:2004 albums]]

[[Category:Guy Sebastian albums]]

[[Category:Sony Music Australia albums]]

[[Category:19 Recordings albums]]