Actual Size

Actual Size
Studio album by Mr. Big
Released	August 14, 2001 (Japan) August 28, 2001 (U.K.) September 25, 2001 (U.S./Europe)
Genre	Hard rock soft rock
Length	51:11
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Richie Zito
Mr. Big chronology
Get Over It (1999) Actual Size (2001) What If... (2010)

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Actual Size is the sixth album by the American rock band Mr. Big, released in August 2001. It was their second and final studio album to feature guitarist Richie Kotzen. Actual Size would be Mr. Big's final studio album for 9 years, until What If... in 2010. The song "Shine" was used as the closing theme to the anime adaptation of Hellsing.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Lost in America"	Eric Martin, André Pessis	4:52
2.	"Wake Up"	Richie Kotzen, Richie Zito	3:45
3.	"Shine"	Kotzen, Zito	3:43
4.	"Arrow"	Martin, Jack Blades	3:43
5.	"Mary Goes 'Round"	Martin, Pessis	4:00
6.	"Suffocation"	Pat Torpey, Lanny Cordola, Chuck Wright	4:43
7.	"One World Away"	Torpey, Cordola, Wright	4:05
8.	"I Don't Want to Be Happy"	Martin, Zito, Kotzen, Pessis	4:50
9.	"Crawl Over Me"	Torpey, Cordola, Matt Sorum	5:08
10.	"Cheap Little Thrill"	Torpey, Cordola, Wright	3:12
11.	"How Did I Give Myself Away"	Martin, Billy Sheehan, Kotzen, Pessis	4:15
12.	"Nothing Like It in the World"	Martin, Pessis	5:02
Total length:			51:11

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Deep Dark Secret"	Torpey, Cordola, Wright	4:37

Personnel

• Eric Martin – lead vocals
• Richie Kotzen – lead guitar, co-lead vocals on "Suffocation", keyboards on "Nothing Like It in the World"
• Billy Sheehan – bass guitar
• Pat Torpey – drums

External links

• Heavy Harmonies page