Cieli di Toscana

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For the DVD related to the album, see Tuscan Skies.
Cieli di Toscana
Cieliditoscana.jpg
Studio album by Andrea Bocelli
Released 2001
October 16, 2001 (United States)
Recorded 2001
Genre European Classical
Label Decca, Sugar Records
Andrea Bocelli chronology
Verdi
(2000)Verdi2000		 Cieli di Toscana
(2001)		 Sentimento
(2002)Sentimento2002

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.

Track listing

  1. "Melodramma" (4:09)
  2. "Mille Lune Mille Onde" (4:01)
  3. "E Sara' A Settembre (Someone Like You)" (5:06)
  4. "Chiara" (4:04)
  5. "Mascagni" (4:12)
  6. "Resta Qui" (4:10)
  7. "Il Mistero Dell'Amore" (4:30)
  8. "Se La Gente Usasse Il Cuore" (5:00)
  9. "Si Voltò" (4:07)
  10. "L'Abitudine" (4:21) (Feat. Helena Hellwig)
  11. "L'Incontro" (4:52) (Feat. Bono)
  12. "E Mi Manchi Tu" (5:03)
  13. "Il Diavolo E L'Angelo" (4:03)
  14. "L'Ultimo Re" (3:48)
  15. "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]
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
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
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Music videos

DVD Cover.

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Andrea Bocelli Biography
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cieli di Toscana chart performance
  3. ↑ 'America' Rules... The Billboard 200, Billboard.com
  4. ↑ Carrie Underwood Claims Second No. 1 On Billboard 200, Billboard.com Nov 11, 2009 article.
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  6. ↑ Cieli di Toscana on Billboard charts
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External links

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