| Back to Basics: Live And Down Under | ||||
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| Video by Christina Aguilera | ||||
| Released | February 4, 2008 (UK) February 5, 2008 (US) February 8, 2008 (GER) February 11, 2008 (GRE) |
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| Recorded | July 17–18, 2007 Adelaide Entertainment Centre Adelaide, Australia. |
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| Genre | R&B Pop Soul Jazz |
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| Length | 95:01 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Producer | Christina Aguilera | |||
| Christina Aguilera video chronology | ||||
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Back to Basics: Live And Down Under is a concert tour DVD by American pop singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera.[1]
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The DVD has been released February 4 in the UK and most of Europe while it hit stores on February 5 in the USA exclusively at Best Buy stores and BestBuy.com. The Australian release date is Saturday February 16, 2008.[2] The DVD contains 2 discs, the first disc being the concert and the second discs containing special features such as interviews and behind the scenes footage.
Back to Basics - Live and Down Under debuted at Number 1 on the DVD Charts with 18,473 copies sold, making this the highest DVD debut of her career. This marks Christina's second #1 on the DVD Music Video chart; her first was My Reflection in 2001. Aguilera's Stripped - Live in the UK debuted at #3 on the DVD chart in 2004.
On January 13, a shortened version of the concert aired live on T4 in the UK, while it aired on VH1 in the US on January 26. It aired on FoxLife for Valentine's Day and then on Show TV after her participation on "Var mısın? Yok musun?" in Turkey .
"Oh Mother", the fifth single from Back to Basics, is used to promote the DVD. The German music channel VIVA had released a live video of Oh Mother, live from the Back To Basics Tour. Additionally RCA Records sent the live video of "Dirrty" to Yahoo Videos, where it got premiered on February 4,[3] and "Ain't No Other Man" was sent to the channel VH1.
The DVD went to number one in many countries, staying at number one for over a month.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Samples | Length |
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| 1. | "Intro: Back to Basics" | Christina Aguilera, Christopher Martin, Kara DioGuardi, Roy Hawkins, Rick Darnell | "The Thrill Is Gone (Live)" | 2:02 |
| 2. | "Ain't No Other Man" | Aguilera, Martin, DioGuardi, Charles Roane, Harold Beatty | "Happy Skippy Moon Strut", "The Cissy's Thang" | 4:19 |
| 3. | "Back in the Day" | Aguilera, Martin, DioGuardi, Don Costa, Jimmy Castor, Langdon Fridle, Jr., Douglas Gibson, Harry Jensen, Robert Manigault, Gerald Thomas | "Charlie", "Troglodyte" | 5:08 |
| 4. | "Understand" | Aguilera, DioGuardi, Kwamé Holland, Allen Toussaint | "Nearer to You" | 5:04 |
| 5. | "Come on Over" | 3:40 | ||
| 6. | "Slow Down Baby" | Aguilera, Mark Ronson, DioGuardi, Raymond Angry, William Guest, Merald Knight, Edward Patton, Gladys Knight, Marvin Bernard, Michael Harper, Curtis Jackson | "Window Raisin' Granny", "So Seductive" | 3:24 |
| 7. | "Still Dirrty" | Aguilera, Martin, DioGuardi | 5:16 | |
| 8. | "I Got Trouble" | Aguilera, Linda Perry | 2:37 | |
| 9. | "Makes Me Wanna Pray" | Aguilera, DioGuardi, Rich Harrison, Steve Winwood | "Glad" | 5:59 |
| 10. | "What a Girl Wants" | Shelly Peiken, Guy Roche | 4:46 | |
| 11. | "Oh Mother" | Aguilera, Derryck Thornton, Mark Rankin, Liz Thornton, DioGuardi, Bruno Coulais, Christophe Barratier | "Vois Sur Ton Chemin" | 7:46 |
| 12. | "Enter the Circus" | Aguilera, Perry | 1:45 | |
| 13. | "Welcome" | Aguilera, Perry, Ronson, Paul Ill | 2:43 | |
| 14. | "Dirrty" | Aguilera, Dana Stinson, Balewa Muhammad, Reginald Noble, Jasper Cameron | 5:02 | |
| 15. | "Candyman" | Aguilera, Perry | "Tarzan & Jane Swingin' on a Vine" | 4:34 |
| 16. | "Nasty Naughty Boy" | Aguilera, Perry | 5:52 | |
| 17. | "Hurt" | Aguilera, Perry, Ronson | 4:36 | |
| 18. | "Lady Marmalade" | Bob Crewe, Kenny Nolan | 5:06 | |
| 19. | "Encore: Thank You" | Aguilera, Martin, DioGuardi, Pamela Sheyne, David Frank, Steve Kipner | "Can't Hold Us Down", "Genie in a Bottle", "Think Big" | 2:34 |
| 20. | "Beautiful" | Perry | 4:58 | |
| 21. | "Fighter" | Aguilera, Scott Storch | 6:49 |
| Chart | Provider(s) | Peak position |
Certification | Sales/ shipments |
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| Australian Music DVD Chart | ARIA | 1[4] | 2xPlatinum[5] | 30,000+ |
| Austrian Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 2[6] | ||
| Belgium Flanders Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 2[7] | ||
| Belgium Wallonia Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 8[8] | ||
| Czech Republic Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 3[9] | ||
| Dutch Music DVD Chart | NVPI | 2[10] | ||
| French Music DVD Chart | SNEP/IFOP | 2[11] | ||
| Greek Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 2[12] | ||
| Irish Music DVD Chart | IRMA | 7[13] | ||
| Italian Music DVD Chart | FIMI | 3[14] | ||
| New Zealand Music DVD Chart | RIANZ | 7[15] | ||
| Portugal Music DVD Chart | AFP | 19[16] | ||
| Spanish Music DVD Chart | Promusicae | 3[17] | ||
| Swedish Music DVD Chart | IFPI | 2[18] | ||
| UK Music DVD Chart | BPI | 1[19] | ||
| USA Music DVD Chart | RIAA | 1[20] | Gold | 50,000[21] |
| Chart (2008) | Rank |
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| Australian DVD Chart[22] | 32 |
| Netherlands DVD Chart[23] | 34 |
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