Commercial Performance
Quiet Nights debuted at number three on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 24,000 copies in its first week. Five weeks later, the album peaked at number two with 11,000 units in sales. In the United States, it sold 104,000 copies to debut at number three on the Billboard 200 and at number on the Top Jazz Albums, becoming Krall's ninth number-one album on the latter chart. In mainland Europe, the album reached the top spot in Hungary, Poland, and Portugal and charted inside the top five in Austria, France, Greece, Norway, and Spain, as well as on the pan-European chart. It also debuted on the New Zealand RIANZ chart at number two. In late 2009, Billboard ranked Quiet Nights at number twenty-five on the Top Jazz Albums decade-end chart of the 2000s.
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