Come On Over | ||||
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Studio album by Shania Twain | ||||
Released | November 4, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1996–97 | |||
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Length | 60:06 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Producer | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
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International version cover
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Singles from Come On Over | ||||
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About.com | |
Allmusic | |
Chicago Tribune | |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
Robert Christgau | A- |
Rolling Stone | |
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Come On Over: Video Collection | ||||
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Video by Shania Twain | ||||
Released | November 9, 1999 | |||
Recorded | 1996–99 | |||
Genre | Country, pop, adult contemporary | |||
Length | 29 minutes | |||
Label | Mercury Nashville | |||
Director | Paul Boyd, David Hogan, Larry Jordan, Timothy White | |||
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Come On Over is the third studio album recorded by Canadian country singer Shania Twain. It was released on November 4, 1997. It became the best-selling country music album, the best-selling studio album by a female act, and the best selling album by a Canadian. It is the sixth best-selling album in the United States.
To date, the album has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, shipped over 20 million copies in the United States, with 15.6 million copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan, and another 1.99 million through BMG Music Clubs. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and stayed there for 50 non-consecutive weeks. It stayed in the Top Ten for 151 weeks.
After releasing and promoting her breakthrough album The Woman in Me, Come On Over saw Twain entirely collaborating with producer and then husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange on a variety of country pop numbers, mostly uptempo. Given much more creative freedom than for its predecessor, Twain and Lange sought to break the conventional country music formula on the album and explore the country pop genre to its fullest extent.
Twain and her husband commenced songwriting material for the album as early as 1994, and often wrote apart to later intertwine their ideas. The recording process was intensive, with Lange dedicating overzealous time and patience to each individual track. Though the singer indicated her sonic preferences, she ultimately ceded all production to Lange. On the international version, Twain and Lange revisited tracks to strip them of country influences and increase the album's marketability beyond the US and Canada.
The album was a blockbuster success, becoming the biggest-selling studio album of all time by a female artist, the biggest-selling country music album ever, the biggest-selling album by a Canadian act and one of the biggest-selling albums in music history. Three different versions of the album were released, the original country version, released in 1997, and the revised pop and international versions released in 1998 and 1999 respectively. The album was also supported by an extensive world tour by Twain.