ShaniaIsALeader
07-31-2003, 10:15 PM
Slow sales? The numbers are way 'Up!'
It's kinda weird when a Music Row artist moves 3.9 million albums and that's considered ''slow sales.''
Such is the case with Shania Twain, who has sold almost 4 million copies of Up! since its release in November.
Since Shania's previous two albums, Come on Over and The Woman in Me, sold more than 10 million copies each, there were those inside and outside her record label who were predicting Up! would go up through the roof saleswise.
Shania — on a short media tour this week to promote an Aug. 19 NBC concert special — told a bunch of newspaper reporters via conference call that she's perfectly fine with Up! sales. Straight Up!
''I can't sit here and lose sleep over what we are or aren't selling. I'm very happy with the way things are going,'' she said.
Shania then said she thought that Up! has sold more than the previous two albums did at the eight-month mark.
She's right: Come on Over was at 3.5 million in sales at that point, and The Woman in Me was at 1.5 million.
By the way, Shania told Channel 4 entertainment reporter Jimmy Carter this week that Nashville definitely will be a stop on an international tour she's starting this fall.
Catch Shania this morning on Live with Regis and Kelly, which airs at 9 a.m. on WKRN, Channel 2.
http://www.tennessean.com/celebrities/archives/03/07/36847648.shtml?Element_ID=36847648
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It's kinda weird when a Music Row artist moves 3.9 million albums and that's considered ''slow sales.''
Such is the case with Shania Twain, who has sold almost 4 million copies of Up! since its release in November.
Since Shania's previous two albums, Come on Over and The Woman in Me, sold more than 10 million copies each, there were those inside and outside her record label who were predicting Up! would go up through the roof saleswise.
Shania — on a short media tour this week to promote an Aug. 19 NBC concert special — told a bunch of newspaper reporters via conference call that she's perfectly fine with Up! sales. Straight Up!
''I can't sit here and lose sleep over what we are or aren't selling. I'm very happy with the way things are going,'' she said.
Shania then said she thought that Up! has sold more than the previous two albums did at the eight-month mark.
She's right: Come on Over was at 3.5 million in sales at that point, and The Woman in Me was at 1.5 million.
By the way, Shania told Channel 4 entertainment reporter Jimmy Carter this week that Nashville definitely will be a stop on an international tour she's starting this fall.
Catch Shania this morning on Live with Regis and Kelly, which airs at 9 a.m. on WKRN, Channel 2.
http://www.tennessean.com/celebrities/archives/03/07/36847648.shtml?Element_ID=36847648
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