Business as Usual is the debut studio album by the Australian new wave band Men at Work. It was released on 9 November 1981 in Australia by CBS Records, and in April 1982 in the United States and Canada by Columbia Records. It spent nine weeks at the top of the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart from December 1981 through to March 1982. Business as Usual was one of the most successful albums internationally by an Australian group. It spent an unprecedented 15 weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 from late 1982 to early 1983; and five weeks at No. 1 in the United Kingdom Albums Chart in early 1983. Business as Usual was also one of the highest selling Australian albums in the early 1980s, with 6 million copies shipped in the US. In October 2010, Business as Usual was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums. The Australian version had a black and white cover design. Some overseas releases had a similar design, but in a black and yellow colour scheme. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)