Cieli di Toscana
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Cieli di Toscana | ||||
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Studio album by Andrea Bocelli | ||||
Released | 2001 October 16, 2001 (United States) |
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Recorded | 2001 | |||
Genre | European Classical | |||
Label | Decca, Sugar Records | |||
Andrea Bocelli chronology | ||||
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Cieli di Toscana (Tuscan Skies) is Andrea Bocelli's eighth studio album, released in 2001.
Released in October 2001, the album spent a total of two weeks at No. 3 on the official UK albums chart, the highest chart position ever for a foreign-language pop album,[1] and reached the top 5 in over 10 other countries.[1][2]
Tuscan Skies, a DVD of music videos of most of the songs of the album, was released the following year.
Contents
Track listing
- "Melodramma" (4:09)
- "Mille Lune Mille Onde" (4:01)
- "E Sara' A Settembre (Someone Like You)" (5:06)
- "Chiara" (4:04)
- "Mascagni" (4:12)
- "Resta Qui" (4:10)
- "Il Mistero Dell'Amore" (4:30)
- "Se La Gente Usasse Il Cuore" (5:00)
- "Si Voltò" (4:07)
- "L'Abitudine" (4:21) (Feat. Helena Hellwig)
- "L'Incontro" (4:52) (Feat. Bono)
- "E Mi Manchi Tu" (5:03)
- "Il Diavolo E L'Angelo" (4:03)
- "L'Ultimo Re" (3:48)
- "Tornera la Neve" (4:05) (Bonus track)
Reception
Commercial performance
Cieli di Toscana sold millions of copies in a few weeks after its release, and quickly become the biggest selling album in the world in 2001, No. 1 on the CNN Worldbeat Global Album Chart.[1]
In the United States, the album peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 85,000 units sold in its first week,[3] and blew through 177,000 copies over Christmas week of 2001, Bocelli's best sales week in America, at the time.[4][5] That record stood for the following 8 years, until My Christmas, Bocelli's first Holiday album, was released in late 2009 and achieved better sales weeks. The album performed better on six consecutive weeks during the Holiday season, with 185,000, 218,000, 428,000, 400,000, 390,000, and 284,000 copies sold on each, in the United States.
The album topped the charts in Sweden and the Netherlands,[2] and reached the top 3 in at least 8 other countries,[1][2] including the UK, where it spend two weeks at No. 3 on the albums chart, Bocelli's highest chart position in the country to date, and the highest chart position ever for a foreign-language pop album.[1]
Charts
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Peak chart positions[1][2][6] | |||||||||||||||||
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US | CAN | AUS | NZ | UK | IRE | ITA | NOR | FIN | SWE | NL | FRA | SWI | AUT | BEL | GER | POR | HK |
11 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
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Austria (IFPI Austria)[7] | Gold | |
Brazil (ABPD)[8] | Gold | 50,000 |
Canada (Music Canada)[9] | 2× Platinum | 200,000 |
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[10] | Gold | 19,198[10] |
France (SNEP)[11] | Gold | 100,000 |
Netherlands (NVPI)[12] | 2× Platinum | 160,000 |
Norway (IFPI Norway)[13] | Platinum | 50,000 |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[14] | Platinum | 40,000 |
United Kingdom (BPI)[15] | Platinum | 300,000 |
United States (RIAA)[16] | Platinum | 1,000,000 |
Summaries | ||
Europe (IFPI)[17] | Platinum | 1,000,000 |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
Music videos
Music videos of 10 songs of the album were filmed in Tuscany, in 2001. Tuscan Skies (Cieli di Toscana) a DVD containing those videos was released January 15, 2002.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Andrea Bocelli Biography
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cieli di Toscana chart performance
- ↑ 'America' Rules... The Billboard 200, Billboard.com
- ↑ Carrie Underwood Claims Second No. 1 On Billboard 200, Billboard.com Nov 11, 2009 article.
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External links
- Cieli Di Toscana on Billboard.com
- Cieli Di Toscana on Ultratop.com
- Pages with reference errors
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- Articles in need of cleanup
- Certification Table Entry usages for Austria
- Certification Table Entry usages for Brazil
- Certification Table Entry usages for Canada
- Certification Table Entry usages for Finland
- Certification Table Entry usages for France
- Certification Table Entry usages for Netherlands
- Certification Table Entry usages for Norway
- Certification Table Entry usages for Switzerland
- Certification Table Entry usages for United Kingdom
- Certification Table Entry usages for United States
- Certification Table Entry usages for Europe
- Andrea Bocelli albums
- Decca Records albums
- 2001 albums
- Classical crossover albums