album.

It stayed in the top 100 of the Billboard 200 for 50 weeks (37 of those weeks were in
the top 50).
Worldwide, it has moved more than 5 million copies. In Canada, the album debuted at
number 2 on the official Albums Chart and is certified platinum for sales of 100,000 copies.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, Continuum was the fourth best selling digital album for
2006 in Canada. With no lead single in Australia, Continuum debuted on the ARIA Albums
Chart at number 12,[16] his lowest debut in Australia to date (Room for Squares debuted at
number 5 and Heavier Things at number 4). Continuum was the ninety-eighth best selling
album for 2006 on the ARIA (ARIA) Albums Chart. It has been certified gold by ARIA for
sales of 35,000 copies and had stayed on ARIA's Top 100 Albums chart for 34 weeks before
exiting the chart. Continuum held the record for the most album downloads in history with
over 326,000 copies downloaded until June 29, 2008, when it was surpassed by the Coldplay
album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
On February 22, 2007, the lead single, "Waiting on the World to Change", peaked at number
14 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, where it stayed for 41 weeks. [17] To date in the
US, the single has sold 1,632,137 in digital downloads, and was certified platinum by the
RIAA when it crossed the one-million mark in sales. After a month of release, the single
peaked at number 17 on the Australian ARIA Top 40 Digital Track Chart on November 19,
2006.
The album was nominated for three Grammys (including Album of the Year), and won two
(Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to
Change".[18]

Critical reception

Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 67/100[19]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [5]
Blender [20]
Entertainment Weekly B−[3]
Los Angeles Times [21]
Mojo [2]
MusicOMH [22]
Now 4/5[23]
Q [24]
Rolling Stone [25]
Uncut [26]
Continuum received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which
assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album
received an average score of 67, based on 18 reviews.[19] Matt Collar of AllMusic called it "a
gorgeously produced, brilliantly stripped-to-basics album that incorporates blues, soft-funk,
R&B, folk and pop in a sound that is totally owned by Mayer."[5] Mojo called it a "great blue-
eyed soul record."[2] Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times commented that Mayer is "best