| Pink Box: Special Edition | ||||
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| Box set by Pink | ||||
| Released | December 1, 2007[1] (See release history) |
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| Recorded | 2000–2006 | |||
| Genre | Pop Rock R&B |
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| Length | 288:59 | |||
| Label | LaFace Arista Zomba |
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| 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 P!nk (Executive producer) |
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Pink Box: Special Edition is a box set of American singer Pink's albums Missundaztood, 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. It does not contain her debut album Can't Take Me Home. The album received a MA 15 rating. Though this was imported, on May 21, 2009 it was released for sale in the UK again, this time including Can't Take Me Home instead of Pink: Live in Europe. This time it debuted at No. 7 on the UK albums chart, ahead of Funhouse which was holding at No. 9 in its 31st week at the time. A Spanish release (released in June 2010) contains Can't Take Me Home instead of Pink: Live in Europe, in a blue cover, and three following albums Missundaztood, Try This and I'm Not Dead.[2]
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After Can't Take Me Home, Pink wanted to have control over her own music.[3] 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 16 million copies worldwide.[4] (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.[5] Missundaztood is Pink's best-selling album to date.
Singles:
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 Missundaztood. "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.'"[6]
The album sold 3 million copies worldwide, considered a disappointment due to the high sales of the time. It sold 728,000 copies in the U.S. and was certificated Platinum. In the UK the album sold 500,000 copies.[7]
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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 because 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 has had a lot of success in Europe, selling 1.15 million copies in the UK. It was a huge success in Australia, selling over 630,000 copies and being certified 9x 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,[8] 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.[9] By 2008, the album had sold over 1.3 million copies in the United States.
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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 300,000 copies worldwide, and was popular in Australia, selling 90,000 copies there.
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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 |
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| Australia ARIA Albums Chart[10] | 13 | Gold[10] | 35,000[10] |
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
Certification | Sales/shipment |
| United Kingdom OCC Albums Chart | 7 | 42,819 | |
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
Certification | Sales/shipment |
| Denmark IFPI Albums Chart[11] | 12 | ||
| Finland IFPI Albums Chart[12] | 42 | ||
| Switzerland Media Control Albums Chart[12] | 38 |
| Year | Country | Chart | Ranking |
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| 2007 | Australia | ARIA | 61[13] |
| Country | Date | Label |
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| Australia | December 1, 2007 | Sony BMG |
| United Kingdom | December 3, 2007 | Sony BMG |
| United States | December 4, 2007 (Import) | Sony BMG/LaFace/Zomba |
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