"Coming Home" is a single by Australian artist

Alex Lloyd Alexander Lloyd (Birth name, né Wasiliev; born 19 September 1974) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Four of his albums, ''Black the Sun'', ''Watching Angels Mend'', ''Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album), Distant Light'' and ''Alex Lloyd (al ...

released in August 2003 by

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. It won the 2003

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for Best Male Artist. The single peaked at No. 24 on the Australian ARIA Charts, and was ranked No. 39 on

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for 2003. "Coming Home" is the theme song for the ''Run Home'' program on

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, and the opening theme for ''

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'' on

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Official track listing

Australian CD single (552867-2) # "Coming Home" (Single Version) - 3:11 # "Golden Slumbers" - 1:45 # "Bird on a Wire" - 3:33 # "America" (Acoustic Version) - 3:31

Peak positions

Richmond

"Coming Home (To Richmond)" is re-working of ''Coming Home'' released on 21 February 2014. The song was used by the

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team

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...

as their official membership campaign. A music video was also released which takes viewers though the game-day experience of Tiger fans – a grandfather and granddaughter, a group of friends, a dad and his young son, a family at home, as well as player,

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. Proceeds from the song's sales went towards Richmond's charity partner

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, which assists and protects children against violence and bullying.

Charts

"Coming Home (To Richmond)" debuted and peaked at number 62 on the

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. It was Lloyd's first appearance on the ARIA top 100 for eight years.

Release history

References

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