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[Davey84]

CSCfan, on Dec 24 2008, 05:24 PM, said:

'Taking Chances' managed to reach the #98 positition in the Dutch Album Top 100 of 2008!

yeah... terrible!!



and 3 quid... well in a way it's great that she might sell some more cds like that, but on the other hand it's horrible!  

[dj_a_rock]

Her Taking Chances comeback was not as big as we expected. Looking forward for her new English album which is no longer from Sony.

[RLAAMJR.]

Hmmm...I said that before. Taking chances album didn't sell well.

[Black Kitten]

people pls stop making a "flop" campaign about Taking Chances already! gosh it's been over a year since it was released! fact is, it wasn't a huge seller, but far from being a flop. end of story.

[boyblackuk]

dhena, on Jan 11 2009, 01:40 PM, said:

people pls stop making a "flop" campaign about Taking Chances already! gosh it's been over a year since it was released! fact is, it wasn't a huge seller, but far from being a flop. end of story.

I agree, cmon this album was not a flop, when u compare it to others, you can see this...for example

Celines sold 3.2 million and shipped 3.5 million
Madonna Hard candy sold 3.2 million and shipped 3.5 million (and Madonnas was number 1 in 37 countries. Celine was platinum in us madonna gold)
Kanye west sold 3.2 million (and he is the big rapper ect at the mo)
Bon Jovi sold 3.1 million
Britney sold 2 million of blackout (and she had massive hype)
Kelly Clarkson on 2 million
Mariah E=MC2 sold 1.9 million and shipped 2.5 Million (and everyone said it was a hit and goes on about it)

The list goes on, it may have under preformed from expectations but this album was not a flop. Here are some examples of FLOP@

Faith Hill the hit 500,000
Leann Rimes - Family - 500,000
JLo - Brave - 650,000
Alanis Morrisette - 560,000
Backstreet boys - 1 million copies (and in celines big years, they sold more in the us)

[RLAAMJR.]

But we can say an artist album didn't sell well if you compare it to his/her previous albums and the fact that not a single didn't do well on the charts as well as nobody really got crazy about the songs would explain why the album didn't sell more. If madonna or Mariah only sold that number of copies, i would say their albums also didn't sell well. Just imagine, Leona Lewis, Duffy, beating them with their own albums. AC/DC and Metallica even sold more than them. Josh groban, Michael Buble has sold a lot too.


But since this time, it's more like just download songs rather than buy cds and maybe most people now goes for rnb or rock.  hmmmm... we can consider that.

Anyway, I don't want to talk about it too and I'm sorry if i kinda did it first.

I don't see Taking Chances album in music bars here in our place.

[Kyle_Jared]

Does anybody have "official" numbers of how many copies Taking Chances has sold in each market?

Specifically the  USA and Europe.  Is it 1.1 million or 1,096,000 in the states for example?

And Europe? Wikipedia says it should be certified Platinum for 1 million sales across Europe, but it has yet to be....

[RLAAMJR.]

I honestly don't know. But I think, the album has reached 3 million already.

[Bruno Portugal]

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Edited by Bruno Portugal, 27 June 2009 - 11:45 AM.

[SensationalCeline]

Really!  Wow, that's great!  She's still got it!

[LuisMa]

The information I had was concerning the single for "Taking Chances." I will post it in the corresponding topic.

Edited by LuisMa, 02 July 2009 - 08:16 AM.