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Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001
37
Sony Corporation Annual Report 2001
37
Sade’s
Lovers Rock
has sold
more than 5.4 million units both
in the United States and
internationally, for career sales
of more than 45 million units.
By the end of his 2000 tour,
Ricky Martin had performed to
more than 500,000 people
across the United States. A Ricky
Martin performance at London’s
Hyde Park drew more than
100,000 fans.
Anastacia’s debut album,
Not
That Kind
, was first released in
Europe where it became a Top
10 hit, with gold, platinum and
multiplatinum sales status in
more than a dozen countries and
overall sales exceeding three
million units.
Billy Gilman, at age 11, became
the youngest artist in SoundScan
history to have a #1 hit and sell
a million albums.
Destiny’s Child’s
Independent
Women Part I
, from the
Charlie’s
Angels
soundtrack, reached the
largest audience (140.4 million
listeners) in the history of
monitored U.S. airplay.
Charlotte Church’s albums –
Voice Of an Angel, Charlotte
Church,
and
Dream a Dream
–
have sold in excess of 7 million
copies worldwide.
1.5 billion people throughout
Asia were given the opportunity
during the year to vote for their
favorite L’Arc~en~Ciel songs.
The top 12 titles along with a
new release were then combined
to create an album called
Clicked
Singles Best 13
. With its release,
the album skyrocketed to the top
of Japan’s ORICON chart.
SMEJ’s
image
album received
the Special Product Album Of
The Year prize at Japan’s 15th
Annual Gold Disk Awards. The
album contains a number of
theme songs from emotionally
moving TV shows, TV commer-
cials, and movies.
TOPICS: MUSIC