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Shania just seemed so weak and pathetic caving in to the liberal  mob on social media. When will celebs ever learn that apologizing only makes it worse. Stand by what you said and don't back down on you comments. We all know what Shania really feels, she would of voted for Trump if she could, that doesnn't mean she agrees with everything he say or does lol lol only morons can't understand what she meant by her comments. Trump whether you like him or hate him has done or at tried to do everything he said he would. That is what she meant by straight shooter. I think people on social media are too dumb and blind for their Trump hate that they can't think straight. If i was Shanai and if she is brave enough which she isn't, i would say if my fans can't respect my opinion after all i stood for my whole career then i don't want those dipsh*ts as fans. Shania made a big mistake apologizing to those buliies on social medai. Have some diginity Shania and stick by what you said because you will never please the losers with your apology and you would lose respect from those who thought your original comments were brave. I hope she shuts her mouth now and when asked about it on the Today show and she doesn't dig herself a deeper hole. We all know what she meant so i disregard her apology and chalk it up to caving to an intolerant mob like crazy left . And finally fire your stupid publicist Shania who should never have a job again lol okay kevy is going.

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kevin's right about the extreme left bullies. we can't let the loud voices get to us because that's all they are is loud--and drowning out a larger number of less radical, more balanced FANS. even the extreme right bullies who are attacking the strength of her character… radicals from either side were clearly never ticket holders, music buyers, or even invested enough to read the full guardian piece in the first place because the retelling of her life story and career accomplishments in that article alone reveal her true moral fibre and plenty of backbone. and if by chance they had read the full article and their takeaway was still to encourage their mobs to "boycott shania twain," then fine, that's their right to freedom of association; but beyond hypocritical to do so under the guise of tolerance and as allies for women and victims... so just because they're loudest, doesn't mean they've swayed true fans and/or public opinion.

*THIS IS NOT FAKE NEWS*


I KNOW TOMMY HAS POSTED THIS BUT HERE IS MY REBUTTAL

www.iheartradio.ca/news/shania-twain-opens-up-about-lgbt-equality-1.3367932


www.youtube.com/watch


pridesource.com/article/83336-2/


DROPS THE MIC, PENCIL AND STOPS TYPING!

THIS MESSAGE IS PROVIDED BY A GAY SHANIA TWAIN FAN FOR 20 YEARS AND IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR LEFT WINGED INCLUSIVE NON-THREATING REAL CITIZEN HUMAN

I WANTED TO SERVE MY COUNTRY IN THE WORST WAY BUT HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT G AND THE REPUBLICAN LEAD HOUSE DRAFTED THE DADT IN WHICH I COULD NOT SERVE PROUDLY. 

SO AGAIN THIS IS A DIRECT CONNECTION TO TRUMPS BAN ON TRANS TROOPS. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS AND WHAT IS THE REASON. NOTHING. SO THIS GOES WITHOUT SAYING TO THE RIGHT WINGED FOX NEWS LOVING REPUBLICANS WHO ARE CLEARLY HATEFUL AND CLEARLY DISCRIMINATES. ON BUT IT "SEEMS" LIKE SHANIA SAYS. "SEEMS" THAT YOU CARE ETC ETC BUT YOU DO NOT! 

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According to RoughStock, NOW sold 800 copies (U.S.) in the week ending March 4. This brings the total number copies sold in the U.S. to 219,200. That's not very many considering 137,000 copies were sold the first week.

http://roughstock.com/news/2018/03/42831-top-10-country-album-sales-chart-march-4-2018

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NOW album sales update:

According to RoughStock, NOW sold 600 copies (U.S.) in the week ending April 9. This brings the total number copies sold in the U.S. to 221,800.

http://www.roughstock.com/news/2018/04/42954-top-10-country-album-sales-chart-april-9-2018

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NOW album sales update:

According to RoughStock, NOW sold 600 copies (U.S.) in the week ending April 30. This brings the total number copies sold in the U.S. to 223,400.

http://roughstock.com/news/2018/04/43001-top-10-country-albums-sales-chart-april-30-2018

***Currently NOW is No. 43 on the iTunes U.S. Country albums chart and No. 15 on the iTunes Canada Country Albums chart.

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Tommy, do you think this NOW tour can help sell a lot more copies of NOW?

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Yes, possibly. 

Pathetic, I figured this would be the place where she would get a few noms? People wonder why she does not attend these award shows? Well you got your answer. She does not kiss their behinds for support.

BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 19): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 76 in its 29th overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 19): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 76 in its 29th overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 26): Shania's Greatest Hits climbs 1 spot to No. 75 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart in its 30th overall week on the chart.

***It looks like the tour hasn't helped NOW return to the charts in the U.S. or Canada.

Act II

Shania Twain is back — with a deeper sound and a new album

By Werner Trieschmann | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | June 12, 2018

Music stardom doesn't come with an expiration date but, if it did, it would likely be an absurdly short time.

In the late 1990s Canadian Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards) was at the peak of a career built in Nashville, Tenn., but had spread beyond the confines of country music. Come On Over, released in 1997, featured the musical partnership between Twain and then husband and producer Robert "Mutt" Lange. Twain's sound, which by that point had abandoned any hint of traditional country trappings such as pedal steel guitars and influenced by Lange's work with AC/DC and Def Leppard, blew through the few remaining honky-tonk cobwebs on Music Row.

"Man, I Feel Like a Woman" and "You're Still the One" were two of the smash singles found on Come On Over, a record that ultimately sold approximately 20 million copies in the United States alone. Twain's uptempo, female-centric pop anthems resonated with a large percentage of the record-buying public.

Adding to her popularity, Twain, a striking beauty, seemed to be designed in a lab for eye-popping appearances on award shows, Entertainment Tonight and music videos. By the time the calendar flipped to 2000, Twain's status as a crossover hitmaker was rock solid.

Here in 2018, the country music landscape has shifted. While Nashville might not be openly hostile to female artists, it is hardly a welcoming environment-- bros such as Luke Bryan and the Florida Georgia Line duo generally rule the airwaves and arenas. It's hard not to look at the career trajectory of Taylor Swift -- country sensation to pop world queen in the span of a handful of albums -- and see the shadow of Twain in it.

Twain, 52, arrives today in North Little Rock's Verizon Arena touring behind a new album, Now, released last year. The question is whether Twain can achieve what so few pop artists are able to pull off-- a comeback more than just another lap around the track, more than nostalgia for younger, more popular days.

The 20 plus years between Come On Over and today have been eventful for Twain to say the least. After the release of 2003's Up!, Twain stopped performing and recording albums for more than 10 years. It's certainly probable that Twain would have fallen out of the spotlight for the common reason of fans and the music industry moving on to the next new shiny thing. However, it's hard not to point to other factors as the cause.

A couple of significant events curdled the fairy-tale rise of Twain. The most spectacular and tabloid-grabbing one was the breakup of Twain and Lange's marriage, which came to light in 2008.

The story behind the dissolution was too juicy to stay under wraps -- Lange was having an affair with Marie-Anne Thiebaud, Twain's best friend. As fate would have it, Twain fell for and eventually married Thiebaud's ex-husband, Frederic.

Twain has let it be known in a few recent interviews that her anger at her former best friend has not subsided much over the years. In any case, the divorce from Lange meant there was no going back to the musical collaboration that proved to be so fruitful during Twain's career.

The personal tumult in the singer's life was followed by a medical problem that presented an even larger obstacle to a return. In 2011 Twain announced that she had dysphonia, a condition that left her unable to sing. At that time Twain claimed the dysphonia was brought on by stress, but in the last few years she has said her voice was dimmed due to Lyme disease.

By 2013, after intense vocal therapy, Twain emerged for a two-year stint at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In 2017, Twain's new studio album, first in 15 years, and the subsequent national tour, demonstrated the new push to be a relevant figure on the music scene.

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The early demand for a new Twain record was strong enough to put Now at the top of the Billboard album chart in late October last year. Unlike most Nashville albums where credits include multiple names for a single song, Now is the product of one songwriter -- Twain herself.

Now's release was significant enough to draw reviews from the few remaining heavyweight music publications left-- Pitchfork and Rolling Stone being the most prominent.

At first listen, Now doesn't sound radically different from Come On Over or even Twain's last studio album, Up! (even as Up! was packaged in confusing Red [pop] and Green [country] versions). She doesn't have Lange as a producer, but Twain's instinct for catchy songs with singalong choruses feels strong as ever on songs like "Swingin' With My Eyes Closed" and the arena-size anthem "More Fun."

Now has been of course scrutinized for songs that point to Twain's painful divorce; "Poor Me" is the one that immediately jumps out. The lyric, "I wish he'd never met her/Then everything would be the way it was," is about as direct as they come. The song "I'm Alright" is an affirmation by a soul looking to be propped up.

The overall tempo of Now is slow, certainly when compared to Twain's peppy, exclamation point-riddled records of the past. The other element that paints this record with a darker color is Twain's reconstructed voice. It is recognizably deeper and, as a result, she strains to put the faster songs over. Now is soggy in places where it could -- and probably should -- snap and crackle.

It would be wrong to expect Twain to make the same record as when she was younger and ruling the go-go '90s. Now is true to its title -- it's an uneven but mostly accomplished, compelling portrait of a star making a strong first step out of exile.

Whether or not Now will lead to that rare second act in show business remains to be seen. Twain's hit-happy history and her current commitment indicate that it would be foolish to dismiss her.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jun/12/act-ii-20180612/

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Tommy, it looks like Greatest Hits jumped up to #32 on the billboard country charts this week. Do you have any other chart updates?

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That's it as far as the Billboard charts.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 19): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 76 in its 29th overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 26): Shania's Greatest Hits climbs 1 spot to No. 75 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart in its 30th overall week on the chart.

***It looks like the tour hasn't helped NOW return to the charts in the U.S. or Canada.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 2): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart at No. 48 in its 119th overall week on the chart. Meanwhile, after re-entering the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for a couple weeks, Shania's Greatest Hits falls back off this week's chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 16): After falling back off the chart last week, Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart again at No. 32 in its 120th overall week on the chart.

***Greatest Hits is currently No. 26 on the U.S. iTunes Country chart.

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I see Greatest Hits sitting at No. 9 on the US iTunes Country charts. It was as high as No. 3 or 4 in the past week.

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You're right. Currently No. 9. 

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 19): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 76 in its 29th overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 26): Shania's Greatest Hits climbs 1 spot to No. 75 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart in its 30th overall week on the chart.

***It looks like the tour hasn't helped NOW return to the charts in the U.S. or Canada.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 2): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart at No. 48 in its 119th overall week on the chart. Meanwhile, after re-entering the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for a couple weeks, Shania's Greatest Hits falls back off this week's chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 16): After falling back off the chart last week, Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart again at No. 32 in its 120th overall week on the chart.

***Greatest Hits is currently No. 9 on the U.S. iTunes Country chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 23): Shania's Greatest Hits falls one spot to No. 33 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in its 121st overall week on the chart.

***Greatest Hits is currently No. 23 and Come On Over is currently No. 125 on the U.S. iTunes Country chart.

Shania Twain reveals she's never given her son a birthday gift: 'He knows not to expect anything'

The Country star 52, on not giving her 16-year-old son everything he wants, losing her voice and thinking she'd never sing again, and why she likes to pen her hits in the toilet

By Rosie Hopegood | The Daily Mirror - UK | June 24, 2018

Shania Twain is an icon. There’s no doubt about it. She’s sold over 100 million records, made the bestselling album by a female artist of all time, and has won five Grammys.

So when we meet her in an LA hotel room, we’re a little taken aback. Nestled between enormous bouquets of white roses, we find a small, softly spoken woman wearing her teenage son’s hoody and a pair of leggings.

Her face, however, is made up to superstar standards, with long false eyelashes and a coiffed-barnet that suggests she’d be ready to pick up her gee-tar at the drop of a hat. We half wonder if she has a skintight leopard-print onesie on under that baggy ol’ jumper.

It’s been 15 years since Shania put aside her crop tops and began a life that was quiet in more ways than one. Moving to Switzerland with her young son Eja and famous producer hubby Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange, Shania’s voice had begun to deteriorate to the extent that she could no longer even call for her dog.

Then 10 years ago, in the midst of her quiet life, she discovered Mutt was having an affair with her best friend Marie-Anne. But in a plot that resembles a soap opera, Shania is now happily married to Marie-Anne’s former husband, Fred.

Shania, who lost both her mum and stepfather in a car crash at the age of 22 and spent several years bringing up her younger siblings, is nothing if not a survivor. She’s had surgery to repair nerve damage near her vocal chords after a tick gave her Lyme disease, and she’s back with a world tour and an album full of songs that stick a middle finger up at her ex.

‘Does my voice sound deeper? It does, though, doesn’t it?’ she asks, distractedly stroking the fresh scar on her neck left by the surgery.

She’s open and upfront: when she talks about the tougher moments of the last few years, her eyes are teary, but when she laughs, it’s a head-back, raucous sort of belly laugh that has us laughing too. She wraps her hands around a cup of herbal tea, leans forward and discusses everything from peeing herself on stage as a kid to not giving her son birthday presents…

Welcome back to the world stage! Did you always know you’d make a big comeback?

I thought I’d never sing again. At first I was looking forward to a rest. I’d had a baby, I wanted to make a nest and relax – to be a mum and a wife, and not even write songs. I wanted to plant flowers and ride horses. It was awesome, but then my voice still didn’t come back.

How bad was it?

I couldn’t even call out for my dog. If I wanted to be loud, my voice came out screechy. Some doctors told me it was psychological and losing my voice was tied into how I was feeling at the time. I’m angry about that, because they sent me barking up the wrong tree.

What was the cause?

It was nerve damage from Lyme disease. I saw a tick fall off me and I got treated right away, otherwise the damage would have been a lot more extensive. I was on tour, and I almost fell off the stage every night because I was so dizzy. I felt lucky when I found out the cause, because the disease can go to your brain or heart.

Did you embrace your years out of the limelight – baking cookies, gardening?

[Laughs] I’ve always done all of that. I love cooking, and I’m not a good gardener but I do love planting flowers. When they die I just replant them! I don’t know if it’s too much or too little water… I did a lot of mothering, and I enjoyed those crucial years with my son. There were a lot of blessings, not being distracted by work.

Did you forget you were a megastar?

I like to forget it, anyway. I like to just be me and forget who I am. When I have to be the performer, I enjoy that too.

Why did you decide to make a comeback?

Seven years after the Lyme disease, I started writing more intently and I realised that some parts of my voice were still there. It’s been a long process, and now surgery.

Now has been dubbed your divorce album, because it’s full of the raw emotions you felt after Mutt’s affair. How does Fred feel listening to those songs?

We’ve had to laugh at a few things. He’ll say, ‘Wow, are you still not over that particular detail?!’ I have to explain I’ve got to put it in my music. We’re both very open about what we’ve been through, and not guarded at all.

There’s a song called Poor Me on the album that seems particularly raw, with lyrics like ‘Why do I keep looking back?/Still can’t believe he’d leave me/ To love her’…

That’s very much about betrayal – it was my self-pity moment. The song is the vomit of that feeling. It’s OK to feel sorry for yourself sometimes – it’s very satisfying and I’m not going to apologise for it. It’s ownership of what you’ve been through. Songwriting is like a diary entry, though sometimes I listen back and think, ‘Oh my God, that’s way too personal…’

Is it true you write in the bathroom or hotel wardrobe?

Nobody bothers you in the bathroom. You can be alone for two hours. I don’t have to sit on the toilet… I have a desk, a chair a whole unit in there, it’s like a mini studio. Closets are awesome too, because no one can hear you. It’s somewhere I can let go of my thoughts openly.

You’ve been singing and performing your whole life…

I was eight when I wrote my first song, and by 10 I had a whole catalogue. My mum was quite pushy about my talent development, but I was private about my singing. She was always encouraging me to get out there and perform for people, often against my wishes.

How nervous would you get?

Some kids want to be stars at eight, but not me. I developed a fear of singing in public, and I think it’s because I started too early, I needed to feel like a kid for longer. When I was a teenager, I got up in front of my peers – you know, a bunch of 16-year-olds, in front of the whole school – and I literally peed myself. Thankfully, I had a glass of water at my feet, and I knocked it over to hide the puddle. I covered it up, my brain was still working.

How would your mum have felt to see you become a big star?

She would have loved it. It’s very sad that she never got to see it. She ran up all her phone bills trying to get me booked places. It wasn’t funny at the time, as we had no money for groceries. She was going to make it happen, we sacrificed a lot.

Eja’s 16 now. His childhood must have been the polar opposite of yours…

He’ll never know my childhood or the way I grew up, it’s like another lifetime away. You have to make a real effort not to spoil your children. I have to be careful not to let him have everything he wants, so I’ve only ever baked a cake for his birthday gift.

Has he ever said, ‘Mum, I really want...’?

It’s all he’s known. He expects it. I’d say, ‘You know what you’re getting from me for your birthday,’ and he’d look forward to it. At Christmas he’ll have only three presents. That’s not a rich man’s celebration. A lot of people would send him stuff, and I’d think, ‘How much stuff do you need?’ I tell him that anything he’s not using after a month, we’re giving to charity. There’s no point in pretending that we’re without, though – if he needs a shirt, I’ll get him a shirt. I’m not going to act poor if we’re not poor. That’s my approach and I’m just doing my best.

Shania on Shania...

What doesn’t impress you much?

Negative people. I have to choose who I’m sympathetic to, because it takes too much energy. My poor husband, he doesn’t get any baby man moments, I just say, ‘Suck it up!’ My son only says [puts on a baby voice] ‘Mummy, mummy’ when he’s really upset. I love being mummy, mummy and wifey, wifey, but to some people I’m just like, ‘Oh, come on.’

What makes you feel like a woman?

My husband does! I’ve still got abs under the squish, although I hate the texture of my body now. But he says, ‘I don’t want to cuddle up to a man, I don’t want rock-hard muscle.’ I’m strong still, but there’s a softness there now, and he likes it. It makes me feel womanly.

What’s still the one in your life?

My go-to place is always self-reflection. I’m always checking myself – constant self-improvement is important. When I stop to reflect it really focuses me. 

Tickets are available for Shania Twain's UK tour at livenation.co.uk

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/shania-twain-reveals-shes-never-12761951

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On a side note, Shania is on the cover of Notebook magazine which is free inside today's UK Sunday Mirror newspaper. The magazine can also be purchased here:

https://www.yourcelebritymagazines.com/collections/shania-twain/products/uk-notebook-magazine-june-2018-shania-twain-cover

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So Tommy.

Can you do the break down of NOW? the "true" number of albums sold?

Thank you!

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What do you mean? Sales and streaming? How would I know that if it's not posted anywhere?

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 Yeah, I know what you mean. I was hoping you would have that info. Thank you though.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 19): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 76 in its 29th overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of May 26): Shania's Greatest Hits climbs 1 spot to No. 75 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart in its 30th overall week on the chart.

***It looks like the tour hasn't helped NOW return to the charts in the U.S. or Canada.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 2): Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart at No. 48 in its 119th overall week on the chart. Meanwhile, after re-entering the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for a couple weeks, Shania's Greatest Hits falls back off this week's chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 16): After falling back off the chart last week, Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Top Country Albums chart again at No. 32 in its 120th overall week on the chart.

***Greatest Hits is currently No. 9 on the U.S. iTunes Country chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 23): Shania's Greatest Hits falls 1 spot to No. 33 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in its 121st overall week on the chart.

***Greatest Hits is currently No. 23 and Come On Over is currently No. 125 on the U.S. iTunes Country chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of June 30): Shania's Greatest Hits falls 11 spots to No. 44 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in its 122nd overall week on the chart.

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BILLBOARD UPDATE (week of July 7): Shania's Greatest Hits climbs 5 spots to No. 39 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in its 123rd overall week on the chart. Meanwhile, Shania's Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard Canadian Albums chart at No. 54 in its 31st overall week on the chart.

These past 2 weeks touring in eastern Canada has Shania's albums all over the Canada iTunes charts.

Shania Twain - Greatest Hits
#1 Country Album Chart
#13 All-Genre Album Chart

Shania Twain - NOW
#12 (deluxe) Country Album Chart
#65 (standard) Country Album Chart

Shania Twain - Come On Over
#19 Country Album Chart

Shania Twain - The Woman In Me
#37 Country Album Chart

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These past 2 weeks touring in eastern Canada has Shania's albums all over the Canada iTunes charts.

Shania Twain - Greatest Hits
#1 Country Album Chart
#13 All-Genre Album Chart

Shania Twain - NOW
#12 (deluxe) Country Album Chart
#65 (standard) Country Album Chart

Shania Twain - Come On Over
#19 Country Album Chart

Shania Twain - The Woman In Me
#37 Country Album Chart

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Yahoo! That is good in Canada but what about America? 

Now once again we find ourselves fighting the American Nashville Music community and the continue HATE for out of towners and out of country successful artist coming to AMERICA to live the dream. 

Please notice the ccma awards. Shania got nominated in Canada. That is obvious but what about America where the sales were more, the numbers mean something and the name too. So this is a blessing but the usual and norm is for NOW to have several successful singles, chart-topping hits and the album doing pretty good. So are you noticing anything here? Should we kick ourselves for not helping when I told everyone we need an all hands on deck approach. Can we please get word from Shania, Elieen or her team about the flop NOW? Any TV show she does in America the albums sales do not do anything. The last time I saw NOW sale anything was 800 copies. HOLY ****! Soon you will be given this album for free. 

One year ago today Shania released "Poor Me" as a promo track from her NOW album.

How come the Now album ain't climbing the charts? This Now album must be a less fan favourite of all of her albums?

Shania Twain focuses on 'Now'

By Matt Kelemen | Las Vegas Magazine | July 27, 2018

It’s been nearly four years since country singer Shania Twain sang “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” for the final time as part of her Still the One residency at Caesars Palace. She followed up the residency with a farewell tour and promised it didn’t mean the end of her music career. But after recording the music for what would become her 2017 album Now, she realized she wanted to perform the songs live.

They were important songs, telling the story of her life after breaking up with former husband and producer Robert “Mutt” Lange. She was once again on her own, but for the first time since meeting Lange she was writing an album’s worth of songs without a collaborator. Her 2011 autobiography From This Moment On enabled her to explore personal themes on her own as a songwriter, setting the stage for the songwriting. “There are so many moments in writing this album that were me getting lost in going back in time,” she told ITV in September 2017.

Fifteen years worth of those moments had passed since Twain last recorded an album. During that time, she had raised her son, contracted Lyme disease, lost her voice, divorced and remarried, and published her memoirs. By 2012, she was ready to get back in the saddle both figuratively and literally, riding a horse on the Strip to promote her two-year residency as a headliner. Her voice maintained during the farewell tour and recording session, although her approach to singing had changed to accommodate the nerve damage that she discovered was the source of her voice problems.

Few fans were disappointed by the news she had unretired from touring. Twain kicks off the set list for this tour with “Life’s About To Get Good,” the opening track on Now, and adds several additional songs from her latest album including servicemen’s tribute “Soldier,” reggae-tinged “Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed” and her favorite of her new songs, “Poor Me.” Fans dressed donning Shania-style top hats or leopard prints get what they come for when she performs “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” two of close to 20 hits Twain scored in the ’90s and ’00s that she includes in the set.

She eschews midriff-bearing outfits for more glamorous fashions nowadays, but her nights in Vegas may have inspired her to push for the elaborate, futuristic production design that places musicians and dancers at various positions and heights during the show. Twain takes flight in an open guitar case at one point, but her exuberance at getting back onstage soars throughout the show. Twain found both her voice and love again, and while a role opposite John Travolta in upcoming racing film Trading Paint might lead to more acting roles, it’s unlikely she’ll be saying farewell to her music career again any time soon.

MGM Grand, 8 p.m. Aug. 4, starting at $54.95 plus tax and fee. 800.745.3000 Ticketmaster

https://lasvegasmagazine.com/entertainment/2018/jul/27/shania-twain-mgm-grand-concert-las-vegas/#/0