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Twain performing on the Come On Over Tour in 1999

In 1997, Twain released her follow-up album, Come On Over. This was the album that would establish her as a
successful crossover singer. Slowly, following the release of lead singles "Love Gets Me Every Time" and "Don't Be
Stupid (You Know I Love You)", which allowed Twain to make more appearances in the Billboard Hot 100, the album
started racking up sales. It never hit the top spot, but with the multi-chart hit single "You're Still the One", sales
skyrocketed. Other songs like "When", "Honey, I'm Home", "You've Got a Way", "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", "That
Don't Impress Me Much", and "From This Moment On" joined the 12 songs that eventually saw release as singles.
"From This Moment On" is a duet with singer Bryan White and there was a re-recorded solo pop version as well.[44]
The album stayed on the charts for the next two years, going on to sell 40 million copies worldwide, making it the
biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician.[45] She continued to break international boundaries for country
music and female crossover artists. It is also the eighth biggest-selling album by any type of artist in the US[41] and the
top selling country album in history. Songs from the album won four Grammy Awards during this time, including Best
Country Song and Best Female Country Performance (for "You're Still the One" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!") for
Twain. Lange won Grammys for "You're Still the One" and "Come on Over".[citation needed]
Despite the album's record sales it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2. In 1998, following the pop
release of "You're Still the One", the Come on Over album was released in a remixed format for the European market as
a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her
producer husband (Robert John "Mutt" Lange) were looking for. Come on Over went to number 1 on the UK album
charts for 11 weeks. It became the biggest selling album of the year in Great Britain and a bestseller in other big
European markets as well, selling more than one million copies in Germany and nearly 4 million in the UK alone.
Although "You're Still The One" and the pop version of "From This Moment On" cracked the Top 10 of the UK charts
and "When" had minor success in the Top 20, the songs that had finally drawn European attention to the album were the
pop remixed singles "That Don't Impress Me Much", a No.3 in the UK and Top 10 hit in Germany in the summer of
1999, and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" which peaked at No.3 in both the UK and France in autumn of that year.
Additionally, "You've Got a Way" was remixed specifically for inclusion on the Notting Hill soundtrack. Subsequently,
a reissue of the international version of the album was released worldwide, including the US and Europe, containing
three of these new remixes. Additionally, the album set the record for the longest ever stay in the Top 20 of the
Billboard 200, remaining in the Top 20 for 99 weeks.[citation needed]

In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale
tours with Bruce Springsteen. The Come on Over Tour shows was a success and won the "Country Tour of the Year" in
1998 and 1999 by Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.[46]
In 2000, Twain was initially scheduled to release a Christmas album, but plans to release one were cancelled later in the
year.[47]
Following the success of Come On Over, independent label Limelight Records released The Complete Limelight
Sessions in October 2001. The album includes 16 tracks recorded in the late 1980s before Twain signed her record deal
with Mercury.[citation needed]

20022004: Up!
After a change in management QPrime replaced Landau and a two-year break, along with the birth of their son,
Eja (pronounced "Asia") D'Angelo, who was born on August 12, 2001,[48] Twain and Lange returned to the studio. Up!
was released on November 19, 2002. About a year later, Twain kicked off the Up! Tour in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
on September 25, 2003. Up! was released with three different discs country/acoustic (green CD), pop/rock (red CD),
and world/dance (blue CD). Up! was given four out of five stars by Rolling Stone magazine, and debuted at No.1 on the
Billboard albums chart, selling 874,000 in the first week alone. It remained at the top of the charts for five weeks.
Twain's crossover appeal in country, pop, and dance music, led the album Up! to sell over 11 million copies by 2004.
Up! reached No.1 in Germany, No.2 in Australia and the Top Five in the UK and France. In Germany, Up! was
certified 4x platinum and stayed in the Top 100 for one and a half years. The international music disc was remixed with
Indian-style orchestral and percussion parts recorded in Mumbai, India. The new versions were produced by Simon and
Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England. They were originally invited to contribute parts to the pop
version of "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" which retained the Indian influence.[49]

Shania Twain performing during her Up! Tour in 2004


Twain's popularity in UK was reflected by numerous appearances on the long-running music show Top of the Pops,
performing singles from Come on Over from 1999. In 2002 an entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show
TOTP2, in which Twain herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and new singles from Up!.[50] In
November 2004, she appeared on the annual BBC charity telethon Children in Need. During the show, she performed

"Up!", and then took part in an all-star magic act in which she was sawed in half by magician Scott Penrose in an
illusion called Clearly Impossible.[51]
The first single from the album, "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" became a top 10 country hit in the US, after debuting at
No. 24 after only five days of airplay; but only made the Top 40 on the pop charts. It was a much bigger hit on the other
side of the Atlantic, released in a pop version, the single hit No. 4 in the UK. In Australia, Germany and France the song
reached the Top 15 in each case. The follow-up single, "Up!", reached the Top 15 in the US country charts but failed to
reach the pop Top 40. The second European single became the mid-tempo song "Ka-Ching!" (which was never released
as a single in North America) with lyrics where Twain was criticizing unchecked consumerism. The song eventually
became another smash hit in the important European markets, reaching No.1 in Germany and Austria and other
European countries, the UK Top 10 and the Top 15 in France. The third single from the album would be the most
successful in the US. The romantic ballad "Forever and for Always" was released as a single in April 2003 and peaked
at No.4 on the country chart and No.1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and made as well the Billboard Top 20. Again
success was even bigger on the other side of the Atlantic with "Forever and For Always" again reaching the Top 10 in
both, the UK and Germany. Further singles were "She's Not Just a Pretty Face", which was a country Top 10 hit, while
the last US single, "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing", made the Top 20 on both Country and AC. Due to the
enormous European success of Up! and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003
with up-tempo "Thank You Baby" (#11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany) and just before Christmas the romantic,
acoustic ballad "When You Kiss Me", at least a minor hit in both territories. The title track "Up!" also saw a single
release in a limited edition of European countries, such as Germany, in early 2004. In January 2008, Up! had sold
5.5 million copies in the U.S. and was certified by the RIAA as 11x platinum (the organization counts double albums as
two units).[41]

20042010: Greatest Hits and delay of new album


In 2004, she released the Greatest Hits album, with three new tracks. As of 2012, it had sold over 4.15 million copies in
the U.S.[41] The first single, the multi-format duet "Party for Two", made the country top ten with Billy Currington,
while the pop version with Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath made top ten in the United Kingdom and Germany.
The follow-up singles, "Don't!" and "I Ain't No Quitter" did not fare as well. The former made Top 20 on Adult
Contemporary, while the latter did not gain enough airplay to crack the Country Top 40.[52]
In August 2005, she released the single "Shoes" from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack. In 2008, Twain and Anne
Murray recorded a duet version of Murray's hit "You Needed Me" for her 2007 album, Anne Murray Duets: Friends &
Legends.[53]
In June 2009, Twain released a letter to her fans explaining the delays in the release of her next album.[54] In August
2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still
"nowhere in sight".[55]

2011present: Return to music, Still The One Las Vegas Residency Show, and Rock
This Country Tour

Twain announcing her upcoming Caesars Palace show in Las Vegas in 2011
In May 2011, Twain confirmed in an interview that she will release her first new single in six years, "Today Is Your
Day", after the finale of Why Not? with Shania Twain.[56] Twain previewed the song in the first episode of the series.[56]
Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the new song. The last episode of "Why
Not?" features Shania Twain and Lionel Richie recording "Endless Love" which would be the first single from his 2012
album, Tuskagee.[57] "Today Is Your Day" was officially released to iTunes and country radio on June 12, 2011.[58] In
addition to "Today is Your Day", Shania also collaborated with Michael Buble on his 2011 album Michael Buble
Christmas (also produced by David Foster). Shania recorded "White Christmas" with Buble which was the first single
from the album.[59] On June 8, 2011, at a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Twain
announced that she will headline Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for two years.[58] Her show, titled Still the One, began on
December 1, 2012 with shows expected to run in 2013 and 2014.[citation needed]
In July 2013, Twain announced on Facebook that she is working on her album over the summer during a break from
Still the One. This will be her fifth studio album and first in 13 years.[citation needed]
In October 2013, Twain sat down with Robin Roberts from Good Morning America as a featured artist on the
Countdown to the CMA Awards. In the interview, Twain said that a new album was coming, but she said that she was
still in the process of finding the right producer.[citation needed]
Outside of her show at Caesars Palace, Twain performed two concerts at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, on
July 9 and 10, 2014. In a series of interviews leading up to her Calgary Stampede shows, Twain said she hoped to tour
in 2015 and that it would lead to the release of a new album.[60] Alongside her Calgary Stampede shows, Shania also
headlined a show on Labour Day weekend at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.[61]
On March 4, 2015, Twain announced on Good Morning America she would be going on tour for the first time in 11
years, and would begin June 5 in Seattle, Washington and end on October 11 in Toronto, Ontario. Twain also
announced this will be her last tour before her fifth studio album, which she intends to release while she is 50.[62] In an
interview on Global Television Network's The Morning Show on March 6, Twain confirmed that she is not retiring from
her music career after the tour.[63] In an interview with Radio.com published on March 5, she stated that she has found
several producers for her upcoming album, describing it as "soul music".[64]

On August 24, 2015, Twain stated: "First, I have to finish my new album this winter. Six tracks are already completed.
I've written 38 songs in total, and now the process is underway to narrow that down to another six or eight to finish
recording". That same month, it was announced by several sources, that even though her current Rock This Country
Tour is her final time touring, she is possibly planning on extending the tour overseas because the Rock This Country
tour was only based in the United States and Canada. Shania also mentioned, possibly returning to Las Vegas with a
new residency show for possibly late 2016 or 2017. The new show would end up featuring music from her long-awaited
new album as well as her hits.[65] In October 2016, Twain confirmed to Rolling Stone that she had new music coming
"really soon".[66]

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