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I'm Not Dead is the fourth album by pop singer P!nk, released in North America on April 4, 2006 (see 2006 in music); it was released a day earlier in most other territories. P!nk worked with producers billymann, Josh Abraham, Swedish hit maker Max Martin, and Luke Gottwald, Butch Walker and Mike Elizondo co-wrote the tracks, which range from the intrinsically personal to political. The album was originally titled "Long Way to Happy", after the song of the same name, but P!nk changed her mind because she thought I'm Not Dead made a stronger statement that this was a comeback album.

Release and reception

The album sold 126,000 copies in its first week in the U.S., failing to improve upon her 2003 album Try This, of which 147,000 units were sold in its first week. I'm Not Dead was not a major success in the U.S., exiting the Billboard charts after just twenty-three weeks (although it reappeared at #198 in late December 2006 and at position #181 in January 2007); it has sold 568,717 copies. [1] After twenty-six weeks it went to number one in Australia and as of December 2006 was certified five times platinum with 350,000 copies shipped;[2] it is P!nk's first number-one album there and the album has spent twenty-three weeks in the top five.

"I'm Not Dead" was the 2nd best selling album in Australia for 2006 and it was the #1 selling album by an American and female artist for 2006. It debuted at number three in the UK and has not left the top 32 in its 39 week reign to the end of 2006 in the UK. The album ended 2006 as the 9th best-selling album in the United Kingdom, with sales over 854,391 copies.

The album was leaked to file sharing networks on March 25, eleven days before its release date, most likely from a promotional CD. On March 28 the official website of MTV previewed the album in a section titled The Leak, where one can listen to an album one week before it comes out in stores. Before "Stupid Girls" was chosen as the album's lead single, videos were shot for it and "U + Ur Hand", which became the album's third single. "Stupid Girls" reached the top twenty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and the top five in the UK and Australia. It was the subject of considerable discussion, with P!nk attending The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss what she called the "stupid girl epidemic". Another track on the album, a critique of U.S. President George W. Bush titled "Dear Mr. President", also attracted publicity; it is thought to be an open letter to President George W. Bush. Despite popular belief that "Dear Mr. President" would be released as a single, during a promotional visit to Australia, Pink appeared on the TV show Rove Live and said that the track would never be released commercially, despite unexpected radio airplay in some markets. Pink also mentioned during a radio interview in Seattle on Kiss 106.1 that she would not release "Dear Mr. President" as a single because she didn't want people to think it was a publicity stunt.

"Who Knew" was released as the second single in May 2006 and failed to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, while reaching the top ten in other countries, including Australia (#2) and the UK. The music video for the next single, "U + Ur Hand", reached number one on MTV's TRL, the single peak at #89 on billboard Hot 100 Singles and reached the top twenty across most of Europe. The fourth single, "Nobody Knows", was released outside the U.S. in November. The bonus track "Fingers" was used on a cellphone commercial in Taiwan, and "Long Way to Happy" — which is about child sexual abuse (see pedophilia and child sexual abuse in songs) — was featured in an episode of MTV's The Hills.

P!nk began her North American I'm Not Dead Tour on June 24 2006 in Chicago (IL), ending in Dallas (TX), and she subsequently started her European tour on September 8 of the same year in Istanbul; it will end in Milan on December 21. She is also scheduled to perform in Australia in 2007. In 2007 Pink will be heading back to the U.S. to accompany Justin Timberlake on his FutureSex/LoveSounds tour.

"I'm Not Dead" has been extremely successful in Australia, with all four singles to date becoming instant hits and the album being certified 5xPlatinum. The first three singles from the album, "Stupid Girls" (#4, Gold), "Who Knew" (#2, Gold), and "U + Ur Hand" (#5 Gold), all made the top 5 with "Who Knew" being the most successful - peaking at #2 and certified gold for sales of 35,000 copies. "Nobody Knows" has yet to be released but is shaping up to some very positive critical response. The album is still in the Australian top 5 after 42 weeks on the charts and peaked at #1. Her Australian tour, which takes place over April and May 2007, has been so successful it has forced her to add new dates twice. She will now be performing 26 concerts throughout her I'm Not Dead Tour in Australia with the majority of them sold out. Her 26 date tour is a very rare thing to happen in Australia and is to become one of the most successful tours to come to Australia, and SonyBMG Australia have decided due to her emmense popularity of late that a special tour edition of "I'm Not Dead" will be released sometime in late March/early April in Australia. Details are still to be confirmed on what will be included on the special tour edition, however rumours have it that it will be a 2 disc set. The 2 disc set will be made up of the first disc being the standard edition of the "I'm Not Dead" album and the second disc containing a number of live recordings (of songs from the album) as well as bonus enhanced videos and features.

Track listing

  1. "Stupid Girls" (P!nk, Billy Mann, Robin Mortensen Lynch) – 3:17
  2. "Who Knew" (P!nk, Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald) – 3:28
  3. "Long Way to Happy" (P!nk, Butch Walker) – 3:49
  4. "Nobody Knows" (Mann, P!nk) – 3:59
  5. "Dear Mr. President" (P!nk, Mann) featuring Indigo Girls – 4:33
  6. "I'm Not Dead" (P!nk, Mann) – 3:46
  7. "'Cuz I Can" (P!nk, Martin, Gottwald) – 3:43
  8. "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" (P!nk, Walker) – 3:18
  9. "U + Ur Hand" (P!nk, Martin, Gottwald, Rami) – 3:34
  10. "Runaway" (P!nk, Mann) – 4:23
  11. "The One That Got Away" (P!nk, Mann) – 4:42
  12. "I Got Money Now" (P!nk, Mike Elizondo) – 3:55
  13. "Conversations with My 13 Year Old Self" (P!nk, Mann) – 3:50
  14. "Fingers" (P!nk, Mann) – 4:13 (International bonus track)
  15. "Centerfold" (P!nk, Greg Kurstin, Cathy Dennis) – 3:20 (UK bonus track)
  16. "I Have Seen the Rain" (James T. Moore) featuring James T. Moore – 3:29 (hidden track)
Bonus DVD - DualDisc DVD side
  1. Entire Album in 5.1 Surround Sound & Enhanced Stereo
  2. Preview of the Live in Europe Concert DVD
  3. Interview with P!nk
  4. P!nk Presents: The Stupid Girls
  5. "Stupid Girls" music video
  6. "Stupid Girls" outtakes & bonus photos
Single B-sides
  • "Heartbreaker" ("Stupid Girls")
  • "Disconnected" ("Who Knew")
  • "Crash & Burn" ("U + Ur Hand")
  • "Words" ("Nobody Knows")

Singles

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Peak position and certification

Chart Provider(s) Peak
position 		Year End
position
(2006) 		Sales Certification
Euro Chart IFPI 1 [3] 1,000,000+ Platinum
Australian ARIA Album Chart ARIA 1 [4] 2 [5] 350,000+ 5x Platinum
Germany Albums Top 50 Media Control 1 [6] 9 300,000+ 3x Gold
Switzerland Albums Chart Media Control Europe 1 [7] 8 [8] 30,000+ Platinum
Austria Albums Chart Media Control Europe 1 [9] 9 30,000+ Platinum
United World Chart Media traffic 2 [10] 10[11] 3,556,000 Platinum
Canada Albums Chart Nielsen SoundScan 2 [12] 100,000+ Platinum
Greece Albums Chart IFPI 2 [13] - -
World Top 50 Albums Unknown 3 [14] 3,263,800 3x Platinum
UK Top 75 Albums BPI/The Official UK Charts Company 3 [15] 9 900.000+ 3x Platinum
Belgium Albums Chart Ultratop / Nielsen 3 [16] 33 [17] 15,000+ Gold
Finland Albums Chart GLF 3 [18] 26 15,000+ Gold
Norway Albums Chart VG Nett 4 [19] - -
Netherlands Albums Chart Mega Charts BV 4 [20] 74[21] - -
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 6 [22] 573,953 [23] Gold
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums Billboard 6 [24] - - Gold
Estonian Album Chart Pedrobeat 6 [25] 5,000+ Gold
Sweden Albums Chart GLF 7 [26] 30,000+ Gold [27]
France Albums Chart SNEP/IFOP 7 [28] 148.700 Gold
Ireland Albums Chart IRMA 9 [29] 25 - -
Hungary Albums Chart MAHASZ 9 [30] 6,000+ Gold
New Zealand Albums Chart RIANZ 13 [31] 7,500+ Gold
Denmark Albums Chart IFPI / Nielsen 13 [32] - -
Czech Republic Albums Chart IFPI 19 [33] - -
Japan Albums Chart Oricon 19 [34] 60,000+ -
Italy Albums Chart FIMI/Nielsen 31 [35] 40.000+ Gold
Poland Albums Chart ZPAV 39 [36] - -
Worldwide Total Sales Mediatraffic + 7,5 that no cover 3.822.700 [37]

United World Chart Performance

United World Chart [38]
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
Position
2
5
4
11
14
18
19
20
12
15
21
15
21
19
Sales
272.000
202.000
137.000
113.000
92.000
79.000
75.000
74.000
82.000
74.000
73.000
77.000
67.000
63.000
Total
272,000
474,000
611,000
724,000
816,000
895,000
970,000
1,044,000
1,126,000
1,200,000
1,273,000
1,350,000
1,417,000
1,480,000
Week 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Position
17
19
25
28
31
27
27
28
28
24
24
25
29
25
Sales
62.000
58.000
55.000
55.000
56.000
57.000
57.000
61.000
61.000
67.000
67.000
66.000
67.000
67.000
Total
1,542,000
1,600,000
1,655,000
1,710,000
1,766,000
1,823,000
1,880,000
1,941,000
2,002,000
2,069,000
2,136,000
2,202,000
2,269,000
2,336,000
Week 29 30 31 32 33 X 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
Position
32
31
32
36
34
*
36
28
30
30
19
16
14
Sales
57.000
54.000
60.000
65.000
71.000
75.000
91.000
134.000
161.000
201.000
114.000
71.000
66.000
186.000
Total
2,393,000
2,447,000
2,507,000
2,572,000
2,643,000
2,718,000
2,809,000
2,943,000
3,104,000
3,305,000
3,419,000
3,490,000
3,556,000
3,720,000

I'm Not Dead Tour

Main article: I'm Not Dead Tour

In June 2006, P!nk stated her I'm Not Dead Tour in North America (20 shows) and the first periode of the tour ended in Europe (51 shows) in December 2006. In April 2007 she will continue her tour in Australia with 26 shows. In total she will have 97 shows worldwide.

Notes

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  38. ^ United World Chart albums. Week 16, 2006 - April 22. Retrieved April 22, 2006
  • PinkJams.com - Pink fansite which includes videos and rare tracks from this album
  • [37] Check out P!nk's success in Australia.
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