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March 29, 2007
Virgin Records: Joss Stone Launches British Invasion of America : GlobalGiants.com
Introducing Joss Stone Debuts at Number 2 on Billboard Album Chart and Goes Top 10 in More Than 15 Countries.
British Soul Star's Introducing Joss Stone Is the Highest Chart Debut Ever for a Female British Artist in the SoundScan Era.
Photo: Joss Stone Debuts at # 2 on Billboard Charts. (Photo: Virgin Records, Paul Conroy)
NEW YORK -- With her album's Number 2 debut on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart this week, soul singer and songwriter Joss Stone leads a bona fide British chart invasion by female artists that includes KT Tunstall, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, and Amy Winehouse. Introducing Joss Stone, the Grammy-winning star's third album, sold 118,000 copies in its first week, and is not only a personal best for Stone, but the highest-ever chart debut by a female artist from the U.K. since Billboard began deriving chart information from Nielsen SoundScan data in 1992. Worldwide, the album has gone Top 10 in more than 15 countries.
Introducing Joss Stone, which features special guests Common and Lauryn Hill, has received glowing reviews since its release by Virgin Records on March 20th.
Introducing Joss Stone was produced largely by Stone's main musical collaborator, Raphael Saadiq (The Roots, Macy Gray) and features lyrics written or co-written by Stone herself. "It's the first album that is truly me," the 19-year-old Devon, England, native says. "These are my words, and this is who I am as an artist." |GlobalGiants.com|
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