Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Sales and Impact

Sales and Impact

The album debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number seven, selling 309,000 copies. Following the April 2005 release of "Hollaback Girl", Love. Angel. Music. Baby. re-entered the top fifteen for twenty-one weeks and reached a peak at number five on June 18, 2005. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album triple platinum that December, and it went on to sell four million copies. At the Billboard Music Awards, Stefani won the Digital Song of the Year award for "Hollaback Girl" and the New Artist of the Year Award, and she performed "Luxurious" with Slim Thug at the event. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, Stefani received a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "What You Waiting For?" and performed "Rich Girl" with Eve. At the next year's awards, Stefani received five nominations for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

The album had similar success in Europe. After entering the UK Albums Chart at number fourteen on sales of 45,484 copies, L.A.M.B. peaked at number four in May 2005, spending fifty-four non-consecutive weeks on the chart. The album was certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on September 16, 2005, and has sold 1,013,000 copies in the UK as of February 2007. In late 2005, the album was listed as the twentieth-second best-selling album of the year in the UK. It also reached the top ten in Finland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden and the top twenty in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) certified the album platinum in May 2005 for sales in excess of one million copies across Europe.

In Australia, the album topped the ARIA Albums Chart for two consecutive weeks in February 2005 and remained on the chart for fifty-six weeks. It ended 2005 as the fourth best-selling album, and was certified quadruple platinum for shipping 280,000 copies. In Canada, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. peaked at number three for two weeks on the albums chart and sold over half a million copies, certified quintuple platinum in April 2006. L.A.M.B. has sold seven million copies worldwide, and became the twelfth best-selling album globally for 2005.

The success of the album's urban contemporary-oriented songs in the adult contemporary market allowed for the success of other artists while Stefani was pregnant and later recording The Sweet Escape. Nelly Furtado's third album Loose was released in June 2006 and was primarily produced by and written with hip hop producers Timbaland and Danja. Furtado's reinvention from a worldbeat singer-songwriter was to Stefani's previous forays into urban contemporary music. In his review of Loose, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone stated that Timbaland aimed to "produce an omnipop multiformat blockbuster in the style of —but without Gwen." The Black Eyed Peas member Fergie released her solo debut album The Dutchess in September 2006. The cholas that accompanied Fergie in some of her music videos were viewed as derivatives of the Harajuku Girls and Stefani's "Luxurious" music video. The album's lead single "London Bridge" was paralleled to "Hollaback Girl" and the third single "Glamorous" to "Luxurious". Fergie refuted accusations of piggybacking on Stefani's music, stating that "this is all so ridiculous The Peas and I make music we love, and for others to speculate is their problem."