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Archives Page 22 (Nov. 21, 2002-Jan. 3, 2003) UP! Remains the #1 Album on the Charts! Shania Twain's new album UP! dominates the charts in North America for the fourth week in a row. UP! has been certified Platinum in the UK and in Canada already, as well as twice Platinum in the US: and this only in a 4 week period! This past week, holding off new releases, UP! has sold 373,000 copies in the US and 91,500 in Canada: once again #1 album in North America! (Thanks Jud, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!)
VOTE for UP!! CMT Canada's official website has currently a poll on Which new CD you would like to see under the tree Christmas morning. Shania's new album is currently at #1, but we wanna see it UP! there until the end: go vote for UP! at the CMT Canada website: click HERE! (Thanks Cbspock, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) UP! Shania Twain's Guide to Life VH1 Article! The VH1 website has posted a new article/interview on Shania and her music. "Shania Twain's Guide to Life" by Paulina Williams & C. Bottomley has great answers from Shania to new questions: "Judging from the success of Shania Twain's fourth album Up!, a lot of people are going to be humming along to "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" come Christmas morning. After a month in the retail racks, Up! is still holding onto the peak spot in the album charts, having toppled Eminem and staved off competition from Tim McGraw and Mariah Carey. With almost two million copies sold so far, Twain's unique blend of cheeky lyrics, country-pop and exclamation points is as popular as it was on 1995's The Woman in Me and 1997's Come on Over, both of which moved enough CDs to fill every silo from Nashville to Bakersfield." To read the full article, go HERE! UP! Dominates Charts Third week TOO! Right after having been certified Platinum in Europe with 1 Million copies sold by the IFPI, UP! has showed once again, for the third week in a row, that it is the #1 album in North America! In its third week at the top in Canada UP! sold 75,700 copies and another 317,000 copies in the US! (Thanks Jud and detfan, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!)
Mercury Germany Interview! The official Mercury Records Germany website has posted parts of an audio interview with Shania: Shania talks about her new album, her life as a mother and her music! Go listen to Shania's interview HERE! Shania's Catsuit at Home!
The
Toronto Star had a great article on Shania's new album UP! and on the Shania
Twain Centre in Timmins. With a title "
UP! is Still the ONE on the Charts! For the second week in a row Shania's Twain NEW Album UP! remains at #1 in the US and Canada: the CD has sold another 625,000 copies in the USA and 85,000 in Canada! Congratulations Shania! Read an article on this accomplishment on Countrystars.com.UP! is already certified Platinum in the USA after one week only! On the charts in the world, UP! is doing well too: #2 in Switzerland (Thanks Paul!) and New Zealand, #5 in the UK and Australia, #13 in France. (Thanks Jud, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!)
Maple Leaf Hotel UP!
for Sale! From the Timmins Daily Press Debbie Pell has written on the
Auction of the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, an important place in Shania's
hometown: "The Maple Leaf Hotel, which helped launch the careers of Shania
and Stompin' Tom Connors, is going on the auction block.
More Reviews on UP! Entertainment
Weekly has published a GREAT review of UP!: the magazine has given Shania's
new album an A! Chris Willman writes: "The sheer exuberance and joy of
craftsmanship in this double-''Up!''-manship don't feel like mercenary
insincerity. They resemble something like actual generosity... not to put
too fine a point on it. EW Grade: A." Click HERE
to read the full review! Howard Cohen has also written another review on
UP!, to read it go HERE!
Sewan Richardson at bostonphoenix.com has written: "Shania Twain loves
exclamation points. Her entire career has been one, and she works them
into her song titles whenever she gets the chance. Like most Shania songs,
the new "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" doesn't merely justify an exclamation
point — it demands one. It sounds like a celebration, from the salacious
opening guitar twitch to the flirty chorus. As usual, Shania comes out
swinging.." Go HERE
to read it!
Canada's Walk of Fame.
Canadian
fans: from now until Dec. 31 you can nominate Shania for induction into
Canada's Walk of Fame. You could even win a trip for two to Toronto for
the 2003 Tribute Gala next June 25th.Go to:
Shania's Promotion Schedule! Shania will be promoting in Europe at the beginning of December: she participated at the Royal Performance show in London on Dec. 2 (the show will air on BBC1 on Dec. 15), Shania will also be performing on "Vivement Dimanche" on France 2 on Dec. 8 at 1.35 PM (Thanks Alexis, Corinne and Claudine!). Next week Shania will be in Spain on the TV show "Operation Triunfo," the Spanish version of Fame Academy on TVE: she should be on next wednesday! (Thanks Portacoino and Shania-Spain, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) 874,000
Copies Sold First Week! SoundScan
figures are now IN and official: "Shania Twain's latest Mercury release
"Up!" soars straight to the top of The Billboard 200 this week on sales
of 874,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan." To reaed the full BillBoard
article go HERE!
UP! First Week Charts! Shania Twain has released her new album UP! internationally the week of November 18, here is how UP! did on the charts the very first week: UP! got to #1 on the Australian, Canadian and American Album chart, to #2 in New Zealand, to #4 on the UK album chart (Thanks Jud and Raider, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) New Shania DVD IN! Walmart now has available a new Special Shania DVD with 6 Shania videos, inclduing the latest "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!." The DVD costs only $6.44 plus tax and you can find it ONLY at Walmart! For more info, go HERE! You can also order it online but they ship it ONLY in the US: www.walmart.com. (Thanks Wingnut, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) TIME Mag on Shania! The
TIME magazine issue of December 9, 2002 has an article on Shania
titled "Shania Reigns. Shania Twain aims to sell more records than anyone
in history — and she just may" written by Josh Tyrangiel. "Like all great
cheap thrills, Up! is shamelessly produced and guiltlessly enjoyed; it's
easily the best pop album of the year. The contagious first single, I'm
Gonna Getcha Good ("I'm gonna getcha while I gotcha you in sight/I'm gonna
getcha if it takes all night"), is less a love song than Twain's declaration
of intent to consumers, while Up!'s 18 other tracks back her claim with
the kind of energy that reminds you how much fun the genre can be." There
is also a small photo of Shania on the front cover of that issue. To read
the full article online go HERE!
(Thanks Ford, from the
STNAOFC
Messageboard!)
Shania is Still the ONE
Sweeps! Let's celebrate Shania's Debut at #1 on the album charts!!!
Celebrate Shania's debut in the #1 slot on the US album charts by entering
to win a Mercury Nashville-sponsored special "You're Still The One" promotional
LP (record) of remix versions of "You're Still The One." This record is
sure to be a collector's item and make you the envy of Shania fans everywhere.
From all of the entries, 30 lucky prize winners will be selected to win
this rare record!!! Sweepstakes ends DECEMBER 11th, SO enter NOW: go HERE!
GAC Top 50 Videos: VOTE! GAC is starting to accept votes for the Top 50 videos this would make a good present from all of us to vote and make Shania #1, go and vote HERE! I'm Gonna Getcha Good is on that last voting page for Fall. (Thanks Surfette, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) New Shania Radio
Interview! The website for the radio station Capital FM has posted
the transcript of a new Shania interview: "All Woman! Shania Twain is most
definitely back! Here she chats to Margherita about motherhood, her latest
single and teaching the contestants on BBC's 'Fame Academy'.
More Reviews on Shania's
New Album! The website of the Shania
Twain Centre has posted a great review by John Emms from the Timmins
Daily Press: "Shania Twain Up! (two CD's) - This album is the emotional
and audio equivalent of everything an artist ever works for coming together
at once in full creative bloom. It's very rare. If you want, go ahead and
call it magical." Titled "New CD Is Sure To Please Shania Twain's Fans"
you can read the full article HERE!
Thank you John Emms for the info, and be sure to check out John's new CD
titled "were Do We Go From Here" available from the Timmins
Gold Mine website!
CD Record in Timmins!
The
sales for UP! has set a record already in Timmins, Shania's hometown! An
article titled "Sales of Shania Twain's new CD are going Up! Up! Up!" published
in the Timmins Daily Press reported: "Two of four locations carrying the
Timmins-born country singing sensation's CDs are still anxiously awaiting
the arrival of more stock to replenish their shelves.
Watch UP!Front Online! The Canadian website sympatico.ca has now posted the full UP!Front video interview Shania had last week on CMT Canada: you can now watch the one hour conversation with Shania ONLINE! Go HERE to watch it! (Thanks Surfette, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) More UP! Reviews IN! CMT.com has posted a review of Shania's new album UP! written by Chet Filippo: "As any keen-eared observer of the country music scene will testify, Shania Twain has been working for some time to achieve the goal she now has apparently reached with the release of her new CD Up!. And that is: world domination." To read the full review, go HERE! A second review has been posted by musicrow.com, written by Chuck Aly: "Not content to release just one version of arguably the most anticipated album in the history of country music, Shania Twain decided to release three. North America gets two discs with their purchase: green (country), and red (pop). The rest of the world gets a blue (world) and red. Each color-coded disc features distinctly recorded versions of all 19 songs. No wonder it took five years. The big question, of course, is whether all this effort resulted in a worthy follow-up to Come On Over. The answer is a qualified yes. At its best, Up! surpasses its predecessor and then some. The problem is getting there." Go HERE to read the full review! (Thanks Cheyenne55 and Cbspock, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) NEW Shania Radio Interviews! There are two online radio interviews of Shania talking about her new album UP!. The first one is a radio interview Shania gave to Nick Barraclough of Radio 2 in the UK: you can listen to it online HERE! The second one is an interview on WMZQ with Ben and Brian, click HERE to listen to Shania talking about her new album, her new baby, and her life since 'Come on Over'. Two-Part interview! (Thanks IanB and byrdman, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!)
Q&A with Shania! The official website of Universal Music Canada has now uploaded a video file of Shania answering questions from the fans: 12 minutes of Shania talking about her new songs, her favorite performers and more! Click HERE to listen to the interview! UP! is Home Made. Countrystars.com has revealed that Shania's new album is really "Home Made": TWAIN ON EVE OF RELEASING HER "HOME-GROWN" NEW ALBUM. For nearly three weeks now, Shania Twain has been talking about all the aspects of her new album UP!, When it hits retail stores tomorrow, Shania tells us one of the things she's proudest of is that she's delivering to country fans a "real" album, no techno-synthesized magic, just a consistent, live-recorded album. "The quality of the record comes from the fact that it's not a programmed record. It's all real musicians; it's just very real. Mutt plays a lot on the record, it's all our vocals…it's a home-grown, hand-made record." The record is so home-grown that there are no outside, or guest harmony vocals. "No, just us," Shania confirms." (Thanks Debbie, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) UP! Reviews Coming IN!
Many
newspapers have published reviews of Shania Twain's new album "UP!." USA
Today has given UP! three out of four stars in a review titled "Shania's
gonna getcha with pop-and-country 'Up!'," to read the full article on "UP!"
click HERE!
Blake Shelton Is a Shania Fan! Shania fans are everywhere! Welcome in the family Blake! :) From www.countrystars.com: "SHELTON BIG TWAIN FAN. Shania Twain has had her share of detractors, but Blake Shelton isn't one of them. "I'm a huge Shania Twain fan," Blake declares. "To me, her record hits- those are my favorite albums just to sit and listen to and I'll probably never even meet her or Mutt Lange. I could just sit and every time I hear one of her records I hear something new that I didn't hear the time before. Whether one of them's a genius or a combination of the two are geniuses, there's some genius happening there. And if you want to argue with that, go pick up a Billboard and look at the album charts and see where she's sold 20 million copies of her second album and probably as many of her first album and argue with that." (Thanks Debbie, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) Cool Shania Photos! If
you are interested in collecting photos of Shania Twain, there is a professional
website that hosts new photos of Shania provided by photographers from
all over the world. In order to see larger formats of the photos you will
need to subscribe to the site. Go HERE
and Enjoy! (Thanks Cbspock and AngelGuy, from the STNAOFC
Messageboard!)
Looking UP to New Singles!
Countrynation.com
has reported that Universal Canada has already shipped 400,000 copies of
UP! in Canada: another record! "Things are looking Up! Shania Twain's new
album, Up!, has been shipped four-times platinum in Canada -- 400,000 copies
-- leading up to it's Tuesday release, reports the Toronto Sun. The album
has to sell a lot. The video for the first single, "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!,"
cost a cool 1-million dollars to produce, according to Entertainment Weekly."
Shania Interview Clips! The website of WCOL in Columbus, Ohio has posted audio clips of a new Shania interview: Shania is talking about her family, her new album and her perspective! Go HERE to listen to it! (Thanks Spike, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) Single on Sale in Timmins! The Timmins Daily Press has posted an article on Shania's new single "I'm Gonna Getcha (Good)" being for sale in Timmins: the Shania Twain Centre has also been selling the new single: "It's here! And it's red hot! International country music superstar Shania Twain launched her single Tuesday, and it can now be found at select locations throughout Timmins. "This CD is really worth listening to because of Shania's very unique and catchy style," said Tracy Hautanen, customer service manager for the Shania Twain Centre. "It carries a fresh new sound and is not available in the United States." Read the full article HERE! (Thanks Tower, from the STNAOFC Messageboard!) Already a New Record
for Shania: 4.1 M! According to an article posted on countrystars.com,
Shania Twain's record label has already shipped out 4.1 million units of
her new CD UP! to retailers in the US! This is the largest number of CDs
ever shipped for the first week of sales by Mercury/Universal! Congrats
Shania! Go buy the new CD the first week: it comes out in Europe on Nov.
18 and in North America on Nov. 19! Let's make Shania #1 EVERYWHERE!
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