{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Actual Size | type = studio | artist = Mr. Big | cover = MRBIG AS.JPG | alt = | released = August 14, 2001 (Japan)<br>August 28, 2001 (U.K.)<br>September 25, 2001 (Europe) | recorded = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Hard rock|arena rock}} | length = 51:11 | label = Atlantic | producer = Richie Zito | prev_title = Get Over It | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = What If... | next_year = 2010 | misc = {{Singles | name = Actual Size | type = studio | single1 = Shine | single1date = July 25, 2001 (Japan only) | single2 = Arrow | single2date = 2001 (Japan only) }} }} {{Music ratings | noprose = yes | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/actual-size-mw0000463869 |title=Mr. Big - Actual Size review |last=Prato |first=Greg |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=2021-04-25 }}</ref> }}
'''''Actual Size''''' is the sixth album by the American rock band Mr. Big. Released in August 2001 through Atlantic Records, it was the band's final album with the label, their second and final studio album to feature guitarist Richie Kotzen, and their final studio album until ''What If...'' in 2010. The song "Shine" was used as the closing theme to the anime adaptation of ''Hellsing''. Kotzen and Sheehan's band The Winery Dogs regularly performed the song in recent tours.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4Nkq38LjY |title=Winery Dogs - Shine HQ |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=2021-04-25 }}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | total_length = 51:11 | title1 = Lost in America | length1 = 4:52 | writer1 = Eric Martin, André Pessis | title2 = Wake Up | length2 = 3:45 | writer2 = Richie Kotzen, Richie Zito | title3 = Shine | length3 = 3:43 | writer3 = Kotzen, Zito | title4 = Arrow | length4 = 3:43 | writer4 = Martin, Jack Blades | title5 = Mary Goes 'Round | length5 = 4:00 | writer5 = Martin, Pessis | title6 = Suffocation | length6 = 4:43 | writer6 = Pat Torpey, Lanny Cordola, Chuck Wright | title7 = One World Away | length7 = 4:05 | writer7 = Torpey, Cordola, Wright | title8 = I Don't Want to Be Happy | length8 = 4:50 | writer8 = Martin, Zito, Kotzen, Pessis | title9 = Crawl Over Me | length9 = 5:08 | writer9 = Torpey, Cordola, Matt Sorum | title10 = Cheap Little Thrill | length10 = 3:12 | writer10 = Torpey, Cordola, Wright | title11 = How Did I Give Myself Away | length11 = 4:15 | writer11 = Martin, Billy Sheehan, Kotzen, Pessis | title12 = Nothing Like It in the World | length12 = 5:02 | writer12 = Martin, Pessis }} {{Track listing | headline = Japanese edition bonus track | title13 = Deep Dark Secret | length13 = 4:37 | writer13 = Torpey, Cordola, Wright }}
==Personnel== ;Mr. Big *Eric Martin – lead vocals *Richie Kotzen – lead guitar, vocals, co-lead vocals on "Suffocation", keyboards on "Nothing Like It in the World", engineer *Billy Sheehan – bass guitar, vocals *Pat Torpey – drums, percussion, vocals
;Additional musicians *Richie Zito – guitar, mandolin, producer, engineer
;Production *Brian Reeves, Patrick Shevelin – assistant engineers *Phil Kaffel – mixing *Larry Freemantle – art direction
==Charts== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! Chart (2001) ! Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref name="JPN">{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}</ref> | align="center"| 5 |}
== Certifications == {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Mr. Big|title=アクチャル・サイズ|region=Japan|award=Gold|relyear=2001|certyear=2001|certmonth=8}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=313&CDName=Actual+Size Heavy Harmonies page]
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Category:2001 albums Category:Mr. Big (American band) albums Category:Albums produced by Richie Zito Category:Atlantic Records albums