Introducing Joss Stone - Commercial Performance

Commercial Performance

Introducing Joss Stone debuted at number twelve on the UK Albums Chart for the week of 24 March 2007 selling over 27,000 copies in its first week, and spent only four weeks on the chart, failing to reprise the success of Stone's previous efforts. Nevertheless, the album debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number two (behind Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank) on the issue dated 7 April 2007 with first-week sales of over 118,000 copies, earning Stone her most successful album in the United States to date, as well as the highest-charting debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200, outdoing the record previously held by fellow English soul singer Amy Winehouse, whose album Back to Black had debuted at number seven the week before. This record would later be broken by Leona Lewis's Spirit, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 on 26 April 2008. The album earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 1 May 2007, within two months of release, having sold 608,000 copies in the US as of November 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was equally successful in Canada, reaching number six on the main albums chart and number one on the R&B chart. It was eventually certified gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) on 11 April 2007 for sales in excess of 50,000 copies.

In mainland Europe, Introducing Joss Stone enjoyed top ten success in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands (where it landed at number one in its third week on the run), Portugal and Switzerland. It was awarded with gold and platinum certifications by, respectively, the Austrian and Swiss legs of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The album was less successful in Nordic countries, peaking at number twenty-seven in Norway, number thirty-one in Sweden and number thirty-eight in Denmark, while failing to chart at all in Finland. With a peak position of number three on the European Top 100 Albums, it ended 2007 as the eighty-eighth best-selling album on the chart. In March 2007, EMI reported that the album had sold 1.3 million copies worldwide.