Chart Performance
In the early 2008 release, the album garnered a remarkable set of chart accolades around the world, including an unprecedented debut in the US Billboard 200 Album chart at 13 (Brightman’s highest charting record in the USA) moving 32,033 copies in first week. It hit number one in the Mexico International charts and the US Billboard Classical Chart, the top five in Canada and top twenty across Europe. The album failed to match the success of its predecessors in the United States but represented an opening for the Latin American musical market. In Japan the album debuted in the top 5. It entered the chart at #4 selling 25,815 copies in the first week on chart.
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