Come on Over is the third studio album recorded by country singer Shania Twain, released on November 4, 1997.

History

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 seventh-best selling album in the world.

Chart performance

Twain topped her own record with the release of Come On Over, beating out then Diamond album The Woman in Me (1995), as the best-selling country music album ever released by a female artist. It was, in fact, the best-selling album ever released by a female artist. Debuting at #2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 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 and 2× platinum on December 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 November 15, 2004, the RIAA certified Come on Over at 2× Multi Diamond, recognising 20 million shipments throughout the United States. Worldwide, the album has sold 32 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.

Track listing

All songs composed by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Shania Twain.

Original version

1. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – 3:53
2. "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" – 3:30
3. "Love Gets Me Every Time" – 3:33
4. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" – 3:35
5. "From This Moment On" – 4:43
6. "Come on Over" – 2:55
7. "When" – 3:39
8. "Whatever You Do! Don't!" – 3:47
9. "If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask!" – 4:04
10. "You're Still the One" – 3:34
11. "Honey, I'm Home" – 3:39
12. "That Don't Impress Me Much" – 3:38
13. "Black Eyes, Blue Tears" – 3:39
14. "I Won't Leave You Lonely" – 4:13
15. "Rock This Country!" – 4:23
16. "You've Got a Way" – 3:24

International version

1. "You're Still the One" – 3:32
2. "When" – 3:37
3. "From This Moment On" – 4:51
4. "Black Eyes, Blue Tears" – 3:36
5. "I Won't Leave You Lonely" – 4:06
6. "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)" – 3:26
7. "Come on Over" – 2:53
8. "You've Got a Way" – 3:19
9. "Whatever You Do! Don't!" – 3:48
10. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – 3:53
11. "Love Gets Me Every Time" – 3:32
12. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" – 3:33
13. "That Don't Impress Me Much" – 3:58
14. "Honey, I'm Home" – 3:33
15. "If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask!" – 4:13
16. "Rock This Country!" – 4:26
17. The International version was remixed for a more pop and world feel. The only song that stayed the same on both versions was "Rock This Country!". In the UK, "You've Got a Way" was the Notting Hill version. In most parts "That Don't Impress Me Much" was titled as the "Dance Mix", in the UK it was titled UK Dance Mix.

Tour Edition

A limited edition Tour Edition was released in Australia and Asia which contains a bonus disc with bonus mixes and live tracks. Also printed was tour dates.

• Asian Version
• "God Bless the Child" (Single Mix) (3:48)
• "(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!" (Live/Direct TV Mix) (7:03)
• Medley (7:25)
• "From This Moment On" (4:43)
• "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (Extended Dance Mix) (4:44)
• Australian Version
• "God Bless the Child" (Single Mix) (3:48)
• "(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!" (Live/Direct TV Mix) (7:03)
• Medley (7:25)
• "From This Moment On" (Original U.S. Version; A.K.A. Country Version) (4:43)
• "Love Gets Me Every Time" (Dance Mix) (4:42)
• "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" (Extended Dance Mix) (4:44)*
• Note: On the Australian version, "Don't Be Stupid" (Extended Dance Mix) is only an instrumental version.

Special Edition

In Australia a special edition was released with 19 tracks, and marketed as two discs on one; it contained the International Version tracklisting, with the addition of:

17. "(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here (Live/Direct TV Mix)" - 7:03

18. "Love Gets Me Every Time (Dance Mix)" - 4:42

19. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) (Extended Dance Mix)" - 4:44

Singles chronology

Country

1. "Love Gets Me Every Time"
2. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)"
3. "You're Still the One"
4. "From This Moment On"
5. "Honey, I'm Home"
6. "That Don't Impress Me Much"
7. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
8. "You've Got a Way"
9. "Come on Over"
10. "Rock This Country!"
11. "I'm Holdin' on to Love (to Save My Life)"

U.S. Pop/AC

1. "You're Still the One"
2. "From This Moment On"
3. "That Don't Impress Me Much"
4. "You've Got a Way" (AC only)
5. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"

Europe

1. "You're Still the One"
2. "When" (UK only)
3. "From This Moment On"
4. "That Don't Impress Me Much"
5. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
6. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)"

Australia

1. "You're Still the One"
2. "From This Moment On"
3. "That Don't Impress Me Much"
4. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"
5. "You've Got a Way"
6. "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)"

Charts

Charts	Provider(s)	Peak Position	Certification	Sales/Shipments
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	ARIA	1	15× platinum	1.05 million
Austrian Albums Chart	IFPI	4	Gold	25,000
Brazilian Albums Chart	ABPD	n/a	Gold	100,000
Canadian Albums Chart	CRIA/Nielsen SoundScan	1	2× diamond	1.92 million
Dutch Albums Chart	NVPI/Megacharts	1	5× platinum	350,000
European Top 100 Albums	IFPI	n/a	7× platinum	7 million
Finnish Albums Chart	IFPI	6	Gold	38,958
French Albums Chart	SNEP	4	Platinum	750,000
German Albums Chart	IFPI/Media Control	8	3× gold	750,000
Mexican Albums Chart	Amprofon	10	Gold	100,000
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart	RIANZ	1	17× platinum	255,000
Norwegian Albums Chart	IFPI/VG Nett	1	6× platinum	240,000
Swedish Albums Chart	IFPI/GLF	4	3× platinum	240,000
Swiss Albums Chart	IFPI	4	3× platinum	150,000
UK Albums Chart	BPI/The Official UK Charts Company	1	10× platinum	3 million
U.S. Billboard 200	RIAA/Billboard	2	20× platinum	20 million
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums		1

Sales

• The album has sold 36 million copies worldwide, but despite this it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, reaching a peak of #2. It did however top the charts for 11 weeks in the UK.
• Before the success of Come on Over, the record for the highest selling album by a female Country Music artist was the album Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson in 1971, after she had her massive Country Pop hit "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" the previous year.
• The album set a record for longest stay in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200, remaining in the Top 20 for 99 weeks (about 1 year and 10 months).
• The album is one of the highest selling albums ever in Australia reaching 15 times platinum and spending 19 weeks at No. 1 and 165 weeks in the top 100 (or more than 3 years).
• During the Thanksgiving week of 1999, the Come On Over: International Version was released in conjunction to Shania's Thanksgiving CBS special, Come On Over that week earned the Billboard chart Greatest Gainer title jumping 24-11 on the Billboard 200, a 246% increase in sales from a 57,000 last week to a 197,000 the week after.*Come On Over topped the Billboard Country Album chart for a record 50 weeks, finishing 2nd to Garth Brooks' Sevens in 1998, finishing 1st in 1999, and 3rd in 2000 behind Dixie Chicks' Fly and Faith Hill's Breathe.
• The RIAA awarded Come On Over a 2× Diamond certification, for shipments of 20 million in the United States alone. 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.

Personnel

The following musicians performed on the album's American release.

• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
• Larry Byrom – slide guitar
• Joe Chemay – bass guitar, fretless bass
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Larry Franklin – fiddle
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar, "cosmic steel"
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• John Hobbs – piano
• Dann Huff – electric guitar riffs, rhythm guitar, talk box guitar, electric 12-string guitar, Wa-wa, six-string bass guitar, electric sitar, all guitar textures
• John Hughey – steel guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano
• Mutt Lange – background vocals
• Paul Leim – drums
• Brent Mason – electric guitar licks and solos
• Joey Miskulin – accordion
• Michael Omartian – piano
• Eric Silver – mandolin
• Arthur Stead – piano, organ, synthesizer
• Shania Twain – lead vocals, background vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar riffs, rhythm guitar, nylon string guitar

"Bow Bros." gang fiddles on tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, and 15 (of original version) performed by Rob Hajacos, Joe Spivey, Glen Duncan, and Aubrey Haynie.

Strings on "From This Moment On" performed by Carl Marsh.

See also

• List of BMG Music Club's top selling albums in the United States
• List of best-selling albums in the United States

References