- Pink Box
Infobox Album
Name = Pink Box: Special Edition
Type = Box
Artist = P!nk
Released =December 1 ,2007 [ [http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=2102108 Pink Box: Special Edition] "Sanity.com". RetrievedDecember 10 ,2007 .]
Recorded = 2000 - 2006
Genre = Pop
RockR&B Punk
Length = 288:59
Label = LaFace
Arista
ZombaSony BMG
Producer =Dallas Austin Linda Perry Scott Storch Tim Armstrong billymann Jonathan Davis
Damon ElliottMax Martin
MachoPsychoChristopher Rojas Butch Walker Dr. Luke Josh Abraham
Pink (Executive producer)
Reviews =
Last album = "I'm Not Dead "
(2006 )
This album = "Pink Box"
(2007 )
Next album = "Funhouse
(2008 )"Pink Box: Special Edition" is a
box set of Americansinger P!nk's albums "M!ssundaztood ", "Try This ", "I'm Not Dead " and theDVD "". It was released onDecember 1 ,2007 inAustralia and onDecember 4 it was released as an import theUnited States . In theUnited Kingdom , the box was released onDecember 3 ,2007 .Background
"M!ssundaztood"
:"This is a short paragraph about the album. See
M!ssundaztood for the main content."After "
Can't Take Me Home ", Pink wanted to have control over her own music.cite web | title=Pop Princess Pink: Flush With Attitude| work=TheWashingtonPost.com| url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/122066581.html?dids=122066581:122066581&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JUN+02%2C+2002&author=Teresa+Wiltz&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Pop+Princess+Pink%3A+Flush+With+Attitude&pqatl=google| accessdate=2002-09-02] She recruited4 Non Blondes singer Linda Perry to help her with writing a new album. She explained about the title: "I think we all feel misunderstood, and our main goal is to be appreciated for all that we are -- most of the time we don't even fully understand ourselves ... thus the title of my album." Pink worked with Perry on most of the songs of the album. She also contributed guest vocals on "Lonely Girl". Other guest vocals are heard on "Misery", where Steven Tyler ofAerosmith andRichie Sambora ofBon Jovi are heard. Other writers on the album are writer/producerScott Storch andDallas Austin .The album sold 16 million copies worldwide. [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_Sept_22/ai_108002015 "P!NK - Looking for 'Trouble?' - TRY THIS! New Album, Try This, in Stores November 11th"] .
Business Wire .September 22 2003 . RetrievedDecember 11 2006 .] (Collectively, four million copies of the singles were sold, according to Pink herself.) With 5.3 million copies sold in theUnited States and 1.72 million in theUnited Kingdom . The success was so huge that the album was ranked ninety-fourth on theOfficial UK Charts Company 's all-time best-selling albums list. [Harris, Bill. [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/Q/Queen/2006/11/17/2391437.html "Queen rules - in album sales"] . "Toronto Sun ".November 17 2006 .] It was the biggest-selling album by a female in the UK. "M!ssundaztood" is Pink's best-selling album to date.Singles:
*"Get the Party Started "
*"Don't Let Me Get Me "
*"Just like a Pill "
*"Family Portrait""Try This"
:"This is a short paragraph about the album. See
Try This for the main content."Most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid's singer and
guitarist Tim Armstrong . Pink contributed "Feel Good Time " (produced by and featuringWilliam Orbit ) to the ""film soundtrack , and it was featured on "Try This" as a non-U.S. bonus track. Pink said in an interview with "The Irish Times " in2006 that she wasn't happy with the way the label wanted her to make an album after the success of "M!ssundaztood". "I was kind of rebelling against the label on that one," she said. "I was going: 'You want a record? Fine, I'll write 10 songs in a week for your fuckin' record and you can press it up and put it out.'"Boyd, Brian. [http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2006/0407/1253073046TK0704PINK.html "Pink Panther"] . "The Irish Times ". November 2006.]The album sold 3 million copies worldwide, a flop considering the big sales of that time. It sold only 728,000 copies in the USA and was certificated Platinum. In the UK the album sold 'only' 500,000 copies. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2424168520070324 "Pink's latest album gets another chance"] .
Reuters /"Billboard".March 24 2007 . RetrievedMay 19 2007 .]Singles:
*"Feel Good Time "
*"Trouble"
*"God Is a DJ"
*"Last to Know ""I'm Not Dead"
:"This is a short paragraph about the album. See
I'm Not Dead for the main content."Pink said about "I'm Not Dead" that she didn't expect to be very emotionally involved in the making of the album because the experience of making her last, "
Try This " (2003), was "draining", but that she was "forced to be almost emotionally involved" by her collaborators, such as Billy Mann. The album was a controversial album, mainly bacause of the topics on the album. Songs like "Stupid Girls" (in which she deplores the lack of good role models for young girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence), "Dear Mr. President" (which is about the U.S. presidentGeorge W. Bush ) and "U + Ur Hand" (which is about the sexual approach of men to women). Some of the songs were leaked onto the internet before its release.The album sold 6.0 million copies worldwide according to Media Traffic. The album has had a lot of succes in Europe, selling 1.15 million copies in the UK. It was a huge success in Australia, selling over 630,000 copies and being certified 9x Platinum. After spending 62 consecutive weeks in the top 10, ARIA announced that "I'm Not Dead" has spent the most consecutive weeks in the top 10 in the history of the ARIA Albums Chart, [ [http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/chartifacts.htm Chartifacts ] ] but it ended up spending 68 non-consecutive weeks in the top 10. As of
September 16 , "I'm Not Dead" had remained in the top ten on the chart after seventy-five weeks. [ [http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1A50 ARIA Albums Chart] ] By 2008, the album had sold over 1.3 million copies in theUnited States .Singles:
*"Stupid Girls "
*"Who Knew "
*"U + Ur Hand "
*"Nobody Knows"
*"Dear Mr. President "
*"Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) "
*"'Cuz I Can ""Pink: Live in Europe"
"This is a short paragraph about the album. See for the main content."
This DVD contains footage of one of the
Manchester show during her European leg of theTry This Tour , which was shot in 2004. It was released in 2006. The DVD sold around 250,000 copies worldwide, and was popular in Australia, selling 60,000 copies there.Track listings
;Disc 1: "M!ssundaztood"
# "M!ssundaztood"
# "Don't Let Me Get Me"
# "Just like a Pill"
# "Get the Party Started"
# "Respect" (featuring Scratch)
# "18 Wheeler"
# "Family Portrait"
# "Misery" (featuringSteven Tyler )
# "Dear Diary"
# "Eventually"
# "Lonely Girl" (featuringLinda Perry )
# "Numb"
# "Gone to California"
# "My Vietnam" ;Disc 2: "Try This"# "Trouble"
# "God Is a DJ"
# "Tonight's the Night"
# "Last to Know"
# "Catch Me While I'm Sleeping"
# "Oh My God"
# "Save My Life"
# "Waiting for Love"
# "Unwind"
# "Love Song"
# "Try Too Hard"
# "Walk Away"
# "Humble Neighbourhood"
# "Feel Good Time" (featuringWilliam Orbit )
# "Hooker" (Hidden track) ;Disc 3: "I'm Not Dead"# "Stupid Girls"
# "Who Knew"
# "Long Way to Happy"
# "Nobody Knows"
# "Dear Mr. President"
# "I'm Not Dead"
# "'Cuz I Can"
# "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
# "U + Ur Hand"
# "Runaway"
# "The One That Got Away"
# "I Got Money Now"
# "Conversations with My 13 Year Old Self"
# "Fingers" (Bonus track only available inAustralia )
# "I Have Seen the Rain" (Hidden track) ;Disc 4: "Live in Europe"
# Intro/"Can't Take Me Home"
# "There You Go"
# "Split Personality"
# "Most Girls"
# "Lady Marmalade"
# "Lady Marmalade" instrumental
# "I Wanna Rock"
# Intro/"Don't Let Me Get Me"
# "18 Wheeler"
# "Family Portrait"
# "Just like a Pill"
# "Respect" (featuring Scratch)
# "My Vietnam"
# "Misery" (featuring Steven Tyler)
# "Eventually"
# "Summertime" (Janis Joplin cover)
# "Me and Bobby McGee " (Janis Joplin cover)
# "Piece of My Heart " (Janis Joplin cover)
# "Feel Good Time"
# "God Is a DJ"
# "Oh My God" (featuring Peaches)
# "Trouble"
# "Last to Know"
# "Try Too Hard"
# "Unwind"
# "Welcome to the Jungle" (Guns N' Roses cover)
# "Get the Party Started"
# Pink on the RoadRelease and chart performance
Chart performance
After just 4 weeks in the Australian Album Chart it became the 61st highest selling album of the year for
2007 inAustralia . Further cementing her popularity in the country.Release details
Notes
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.