Pink Box

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Pink Box: Special Edition
Pink Box: Special Edition cover
Box set by P!nk
Released December 1, 2007[1]
Recorded 2000 - 2006
Genre Pop
Rock
R&B
Length 288:59
Label LaFace
Arista
Zomba
Sony BMG
Producer Dallas Austin
Linda Perry
Scott Storch
Tim Armstrong
billymann
Jonathan Davis
Damon Elliott
Max Martin
MachoPsycho
Christopher Rojas
Butch Walker
Dr. Luke
Josh Abraham
Pink (Executive producer)
P!nk chronology
I'm Not Dead
(2006)		 Pink Box
(2007)		 TBA
(2008/2009)

Pink Box: Special Edition is a box set of American singer P!nk's albums M!ssundaztood, Try This, I'm Not Dead and the DVD Pink: Live in Europe. It was released on December 1, 2007 in Australia and on December 4 it was released as an import the United States. In the United Kingdom, the box was released on December 3, 2007.

Contents

[edit] Background

[edit] M!ssundaztood

This is a short paragraph about the album. See M!ssundaztood for the main content.

After Can't Take Me Home, Pink wanted to have control over her own music.[2] She recruited 4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album. She explained about the title: "I think we all feel misunderstood, and our main goal is to be appreciated for all that we are -- most of the time we don't even fully understand ourselves ... thus the title of my album." Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album. She also contributed guest vocals on "Lonely Girl". Other guest vocals are heard on "Misery", where Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi are heard. Other writers on the album are writer/producer Scott Storch and Dallas Austin.

The album sold 12 million copies worldwide.[3] (Collectively, four million copies of the singles were sold, according to Pink herself.) With 5.3 million copies sold in the United States and 1.72 million in the United Kingdom. The success was so huge that the album was ranked ninety-fourth on the Official UK Charts Company's all-time best-selling albums list.[4] It was the biggest-selling album by a female in the UK. M!ssundaztood is Pink's best-selling album to date.

Singles:

[edit] Try This

This is a short paragraph about the album. See Try This for the main content.

Most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid's singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong. Pink contributed "Feel Good Time" (produced by and featuring William Orbit) to the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle film soundtrack, and it was featured on Try This as a non-U.S. bonus track. Pink said in an interview with The Irish Times in 2006 that she wasn't happy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of M!ssundaztood. "I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one," she said. "I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin' record and you can press it up and put it out.'"[5]

The album sold 3 million copies worldwide, a flop considering the big sales of that time. It sold only 728,000 copies in the USA and was certificated Platinum. In the UK the album sold 'only' 500,000 copies.[6]

Singles:

[edit] I'm Not Dead

This is a short paragraph about the album. See I'm Not Dead for the main content.

Pink said about I'm Not Dead that she didn't expect to be very emotionally involved in the making of the album because the experience of making her last, Try This (2003), was "draining", but that she was "forced to be almost emotionally involved" by her collaborators, such as Billy Mann. The album was a controversial album, mainly bacause of the topics on the album. Songs like "Stupid Girls" (in which she deplores the lack of good role models for young girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence), "Dear Mr. President" (which is about the U.S. president George W. Bush) and "U + Ur Hand" (which is about the sexual approach of men to women). Some of the songs were leaked onto the internet before its release.

The album sold 6.0 million copies worldwide according to Media Traffic. The album has had a lot of succes in Europe, selling 1.15 million copies in the UK. It was a huge success in Australia, selling over 600,000 copies and being certified 8x Platinum. After spending 62 consecutive weeks in the top 10, ARIA announced that I'm Not Dead has spent the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 in the history of the ARIA Albums Chart,[7] but it ended up spending 68 non-consecutive weeks in the top 10. As of September 16, I'm Not Dead had remained in the top ten on the chart after seventy-five weeks.[8] By 2007, the album had sold over 1.1 million copies in the United States.

Singles:

[edit] Pink: Live in Europe

This is a short paragraph about the album. See Pink: Live in Europe for the main content.

This DVD contains footage of one of the Manchester show during her European leg of the Try This Tour, which was shot in 2004. It was released in 2006. The DVD sold around 250,000 copies worldwide, and was popular in Australia, selling 60,000 copies there.

[edit] Track listings

Disc 1
M!ssundaztood
  1. "M!ssundaztood"
  2. "Don't Let Me Get Me"
  3. "Just like a Pill"
  4. "Get the Party Started"
  5. "Respect" (featuring Scratch)
  6. "18 Wheeler"
  7. "Family Portrait"
  8. "Misery" (featuring Steven Tyler)
  9. "Dear Diary"
  10. "Eventually"
  11. "Lonely Girl" (featuring Linda Perry)
  12. "Numb"
  13. "Gone to California"
  14. "My Vietnam"
Disc 2
Try This
  1. "Trouble"
  2. "God Is a DJ"
  3. "Tonight's the Night"
  4. "Last to Know"
  5. "Catch Me While I'm Sleeping"
  6. "Oh My God"
  7. "Save My Life"
  8. "Waiting for Love"
  9. "Unwind"
  10. "Love Song"
  11. "Try Too Hard"
  12. "Walk Away"
  13. "Humble Neighbourhood"
  14. "Feel Good Time" (featuring William Orbit)
  15. "Hooker" (Hidden track)
Disc 3
I'm Not Dead
  1. "Stupid Girls"
  2. "Who Knew"
  3. "Long Way to Happy"
  4. "Nobody Knows"
  5. "Dear Mr. President"
  6. "I'm Not Dead"
  7. "'Cuz I Can"
  8. "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
  9. "U + Ur Hand"
  10. "Runaway"
  11. "The One That Got Away"
  12. "I Got Money Now"
  13. "Conversations with My 13 Year Old Self"
  14. "Fingers" (Bonus track)
  15. "I Have Seen the Rain" (Hidden track)
Disc 4
Live in Europe
  1. Intro/"Can't Take Me Home"
  2. "There You Go"
  3. "Split Personality"
  4. "Most Girls"
  5. "Lady Marmalade"
  6. "Lady Marmalade" instrumental
  7. "I Wanna Rock"
  8. Intro/"Don't Let Me Get Me"
  9. "18 Wheeler"
  10. "Family Portrait"
  11. "Just like a Pill"
  12. "Respect" (featuring Scratch)
  13. "My Vietnam"
  14. "Misery" (featuring Steven Tyler)
  15. "Eventually"
  16. "Summertime" (Janis Joplin cover)
  17. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Janis Joplin cover)
  18. "Piece of My Heart" (Janis Joplin cover)
  19. "Feel Good Time"
  20. "God Is a DJ"
  21. "Oh My God" (featuring Peaches)
  22. "Trouble"
  23. "Last to Know"
  24. "Try Too Hard"
  25. "Unwind"
  26. "Welcome to the Jungle" (Guns N' Roses cover)
  27. "Get the Party Started"
  28. Pink on the Road

[edit] Release and chart performance

[edit] Chart performance

After just 4 weeks in the Australian Album Chart it became the 61st highest selling album of the year for 2007 in Australia. Further cementing her popularity in the country.

Chart (2007) Peak
position		 Certification Sales/shipment
Australia ARIA Albums Chart[9] 13 Gold[9] 35,000[9]

[edit] Release details

Country Date Label
Flag of Australia Australia December 1, 2007 Sony BMG
Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom December 3, 2007 Sony BMG
Flag of the United States United States December 4, 2007 (Import) Sony BMG/LaFace/Zomba

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Pink Box: Special Edition Sanity.com. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
  2. ^ Pop Princess Pink: Flush With Attitude. TheWashingtonPost.com. Retrieved on 2002-09-02.
  3. ^ "P!NK - Looking for 'Trouble?' - TRY THIS! New Album, Try This, in Stores November 11th". Business Wire. September 22, 2003. Retrieved December 11, 2006.
  4. ^ Harris, Bill. "Queen rules - in album sales". Toronto Sun. November 17, 2006.
  5. ^ Boyd, Brian. "Pink Panther". The Irish Times. November 2006.
  6. ^ "Pink's latest album gets another chance". Reuters/Billboard. March 24, 2007. Retrieved May 19 2007.
  7. ^ Chartifacts
  8. ^ ARIA Albums Chart
  9. ^ a b c Australian Record Industry Association Retrieved December 9, 2007.
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