Released in October 2001, the album spent a total of two weeks at No. 3 on the official UK albums chart, the highest chart position ever for a foreign-language pop album,[1] and reached the top 5 in over 10 other countries.[1][2]
Cieli di Toscana sold millions of copies in a few weeks after its release, and quickly become the biggest selling album in the world in 2001, No. 1 on the CNN Worldbeat Global Album Chart.[1]
In the United States, the album peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 85,000 units sold in its first week,[3] and blew through 177,000 copies over Christmas week of 2001, Bocelli's best sales week in America, at the time.[4][5] That record stood for the following 8 years, until My Christmas, Bocelli's first Holiday album, was released in late 2009 and achieved better sales weeks. The album performed better on six consecutive weeks during the Holiday season, with 185,000, 218,000, 428,000, 400,000, 390,000, and 284,000 copies sold on each, in the United States.
The album topped the charts in Sweden and the Netherlands,[2] and reached the top 3 in at least 8 other countries,[1][2] including the UK, where it spent two weeks at No. 3 on the albums chart, Bocelli's highest chart position in the country to date, and the highest chart position ever for a foreign-language pop album.[1]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
^"New Zealand album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – Cieli di Toscana". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^"Norwegian album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – Cieli di Toscana" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway.
^Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002(PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p. 957. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
^"Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2001" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17.
^"The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards ('Cieli di Toscana')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
^Worden, Mark (18 January 2003). "Andrea Bocelli Is A "Sugar-Coated" Global Phenomenon" (PDF). Billboard. p. 30. Retrieved 5 October 2020 – via World Radio History.