How Camila Cabello's debut album has performed in the charts across the world
Camila Cabello's debut record, entitled Camila, has made a huge impact worldwide, but it was nearly a completely different album altogether.
After the Cuban-born American's smash hit Havana took off in the UK and reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, Camila steered her album in a new direction: "So many people said this song wouldn’t work but me and my team always believed in it," Camila told OfficialCharts.com. "It feels good to have that. This is the defiant song."
As a result of Camila sticking with her Latin-influenced sound, previous releases Crying In The Club and I Have Questions were left off her debut LP, while OMG ft. Quavo, released the same day as Havana, also didn't make the cut. It's clear Camila trusting her instinct was the right move - her debut album is performing well.
Here in the UK, Camila reached Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart last Friday, a new career high for The X Factor USA graduate, who previously reached Number 6 as part of Fifth Harmony's second studio album 7/27. The album also peaked at Number 2 on the Official Scottish Albums Chart.
In Ireland, the album bowed at Number 3, before doing the same in Australia and New Zealand on the ARIA and RMNZ charts.
While a Top 3 placing is a big deal, Number 1s are pretty special too, right? Luckily for Camila, she has plenty to choose from. In addition to topping the charts in Canada, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, Camila joined the history books in the United States.
Camila managed the chart double, topping the Billboard 200 with Camila, and the Hot 100 with Havana, becoming her first US Number 1 album and single. Achieving her first weeks at Number 1 on both charts in the same week, Camila joins Beyoncé and Britney Spears as the only other artists to achieve this.
It looks like things will truly Never Be The Same for Camila.
MORE: View Camila Cabello's full UK chart history, including six UK Top 40 hits
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Sunshine Gal
umm..official charts: did you double check meghan trainor's debut album and single in the u.s.? 'all about the bass' would spend about 8 wks @ #1 on the hot 100 and her album debuted @ #1. also christina aguilera's debut single 'genie in a bottle' would also go to #1 on the hot 100 and her debut album also debuted @ #1 :). also double check leona lewis, her album and single 'bleeding love' both hit #1 over here. also alicia key's debut album *songs in A minor* and debut single 'fallin' both hit #1 here...but i'm not too sure if it was simulatenously in the same wk.
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Courtney Puzzo
not true Mariah Carey did it in 1995 with Fantasy & Daydream and in 1997 with Honey Single and Butterfly album though Camila also shipped 500,000 albums in her first week though only sold 65 K and with streaming added 119 K and Daydreams opening week sales were 3.45x what Camila's debut was and eventually the album was certified diamond in 1999 for shipments of 10,000,000 copies in the US one of 92 albums thus far to reach that height in shipments/sales the artists with the most diamond albums are Garth Brooks with seven thus far nearly 8 and the Beatles with 6 granted each of those acts have 3 double albums that are diamond or higher Garths are The Hits Double Live and The Ultimate Hits white the Beatles double albums that reached diamond or higher are 1968's White Album and the 1973 compilations 1962-1966 Beatles Red album and 1967-1970 Beatles blue album granted double albums over 90 minutes long each disc is counted as a unit for certification purposes so 250,000 copies are gold 500,000 platinum 5,000,000 diamond so double live is double diamond at 10,500,000 shipped/sold since it's 1998 release and only a handful of single disc albums have made it to double diamond or higher including Michael Jackson's Thriller currently 33 x platinum in the US Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 at 29 platinum though it should be at least 30 x platinum Led Zeppelin IV at 23 x platinum & Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and Shania Twains Come On Over at 20 x platinum each and several just below that need updating such as Adele's 21 to 15 x platinum and Journey's greatest hits to 17 x platinum just like Metallica's Metallica was in December 2017 though the cert hasn't been officially announced or added to the RIAA searchable database yet and a big box set version of Metallica is being released this year
Sunshine Gal
what do mj and all them have to do with this article? i think this article was referring to how rare an artist can have a #1 song and album simultaneously in the same wk in the u.s. esp. when both are debut efforts.
& thriller's first single 'the girl is mine' peaked @ #2. and shania twain never had a #1 song on the hot 100, her biggest hot 100 hit is 'you're still the one' that peaked @ #2. and garth brooks never had a hot 100 #1 song either.
Sunshine Gal
also adele's debut album and single didn't hit #1 over here, far from it.
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