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Come on Over is the third studio album recorded by country singer Shania Twain released on Nov 4, 1997. The album broke various sales records around the world, becoming the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, the biggest-selling country music album ever, the biggest-selling album of the 1990s and one of the biggest selling albums in music history. Media Traffic listed Come on Over as the 9th best selling album in the world.
Twain topped her own record with the release of Come on Over, beating out then 10x platinum album The Woman in Me (1995), as the best-selling country music album ever released by a female artist. It debuted at #2 on the U.S. Billboard 100 with a moderate 172,000 copies (3,000 units behind Mase's Harlem World), the album showed its consistency when it moved another 170,000 copies in its second week (a 1.2% decrease) to stay at #2 again behind Barbra Streisand's Higher Ground. The RIAA certified Come on Over Gold, Platinum & 2x platinum on Dec 23, 1997. It sold more than 100,000 units in each of sixty-two weeks. The album's best sales week was its 110th week, during which it sold 355,000 units to settle at number ten (Christmas 1999). The album stayed on the top 100 for 151 weeks. On Nov 15, 2004, the RIAA certified Come on Over at 20x platinum, denoting 20 million shipments throughout the U.S alone. Worldwide, the album has sold 39 million copies. Nielsen Soundscan confirmed Come on Over as the best-selling album in the United States since 1991, with 15,449,000 copies sold since its November 1997 release, some 375,000 ahead of its nearest rival Metallica.






