Editing Colin Hay (section)

===2005–2020: Continued success===
[[File:Colin Hay - Pabst Theatre - Milwaukee, WI - 11.2.17 (38089387766).jpg|upright|thumb|Hay performing in 2017]]
In 2006 Hay provided his voice for one of the characters in the animated film ''[[The Wild]]''.<ref name="Bio"/>

In April 2007, Hay released his ninth studio album, ''[[Are You Lookin' at Me?]]''.<ref name="Bio"/> In 2008, Hay plays the role of Nick at the horror movie ''[[The Uninvited (2008 film)|The Uninvited]]''.<ref name="Bio"/>

In May 2009, Hay performed at the Artist for the Arts Foundation benefit at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, California. Performing alongside [[Curt Smith]] of [[Tears for Fears]], [[Fee Waybill]] of [[the Tubes]], [[Venice (band)|Venice]], and over 70 members of the [[Santa Monica High School]] Orchestra and Girls Choir, the benefit helped to provide funds for the continuation of music education in public schools.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

In August 2009, Hay released his tenth studio album, ''[[American Sunshine]]''.<ref name="Bio"/>

In 2010, Hay released the live album, ''Live at the Corner'', filmed in 2007 at the [[Corner Hotel]] in Melbourne, Australia.<ref name="Bio"/>

In August 2010, Hay performed in [[Missoula, Montana]] with a Los Angeles [[roots rock]] band named [[Patrolled By Radar]].<ref name=twsS14>{{cite news |title=Colin Hay with Patrolled by Radar |newspaper=Missoula Independent |quote=when Colin Hay—formerly of the group Men at Work—plays the Wilma Theatre with Patrolled by Radar |date=2 August 2010 |url=http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/colin-hay-with-patrolled-by-radar/Event?oid=1284434 |access-date=19 May 2011 |archive-date=8 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008090809/http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/colin-hay-with-patrolled-by-radar/Event?oid=1284434 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In May 2011, Hay released his eleventh studio album ''[[Gathering Mercury]]''.<ref name="Bio"/> In 2011, Hay commented on his early solo career, stating, "After Men at Work, for the better part of a decade, I was stumbling around being unfocused. It was pre-internet; I really had to try to find my audiences by going out on tour. Men at Work really didn't build a foundational audience. We came in as a [[pop music|pop]] band with enormous radio success; once that goes away and the band breaks up the audience tends to go away with it. You're left with what you want to make of it. When you start out doing those tours, you start again [and] you tend not to attract a very big number of people. I'd play to a hundred people or sometimes less".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/news/colin-hay-is-still-at-work/story-fn6c8sdb-1226058296461 |work=National Features |title=Colin Hay is still at work |date=18 May 2011}}</ref>

In December 2013, Hay announced on his website that he was done touring "for the time being" and would spend 2014 writing and recording.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colinhay.com/2013/12/18/a-message-from-colin/|title=Colin Hay » A message from Colin|date=18 December 2013|publisher=Colinhay.com|access-date=22 November 2014}}</ref>

In February 2015, Hay released his twelfth studio album, ''Next Year People''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/colin-hay-to-release-12th-solo-album-next-year-people-20150202|title=Colin Hay To Release 12th Solo Album Next Year People|website=noise11|date=2 February 2015|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref> The album was preceded by the single "Trying to Get to You".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/new-colin-hay-trying-to-get-to-you-listen-20141226|title=New Colin Hay – Trying To Get To You LISTEN|website=noise11|date=26 December 2014|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>

On 4 August 2015, ''Colin Hay: Waiting for my Real Life'', a documentary film about Hay, debuted at the [[Melbourne International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://miff.com.au/program/film/colin-hay-waiting-for-my-real-life |title=Miff 2015 |access-date=2015-08-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812043910/http://miff.com.au/program/film/colin-hay-waiting-for-my-real-life |archive-date=12 August 2015}}</ref>

On 27 January 2017, he released the first single, "A Thousand Million Reasons", from his thirteenth studio album ''Fierce Mercy'', released in March 2017. ''Fierce Mercy'' debuted at number 44 on the ARIA chart, becoming his second solo chart entry in Australia. The album was promoted with his segments on ''[[Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery]]'' and ''[[Sunday Night (Australian TV program)|Sunday Night]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/australian-charts-ed-sheeran-dominates-aria-albums-for-second-week-20170320|title=Australian Charts: Ed Sheeran Dominates ARIA Albums for Second Week|website=noise11|date=20 March 2017|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>

Also in 2017, Hay released his first audiobook, ''Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay'', published by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, for which he narrated 24 of [[Aesop's Fables]] written by author [[Tom Graves (writer)|Tom Graves]].