Loose is the third album by Canadian pop singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, released by Geffen Records on June 9, 2006 (see 2006 in music) outside North America and on June 20, 2006 in Canada and the United States. Timbaland and his partner Danja produced the bulk of the album, which debuted high on charts across the world. As of June 2007, Loose has sold over 6.3 million copies worldwide.
It became the most successful album of Furtado's career, reaching number one in several countries. It debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling more than 34,000 copies in its first week, at that time the year's strongest debut for a Canadian artist. In late July, after Furtado embarked on a short tour of Canada and made a guest appearance on the television show Canadian Idol, the album returned to number one; It subsequently stayed near the top of the albums until late January 2007, when it reached number one again for two weeks, during a slow sales week. It was the third best-selling album of 2006 in Canada, and the highest selling by a female solo artist, with 291,700 copies sold. The CRIA certified Loose three times platinum in December 2006, and by the following May it had shipped over 500,000 copies. It has stayed in the top twenty for all the fifty-two weeks it has been on the chart.
The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 with sales of 219,000; it was certified platinum by the RIAA and ranked sixty-fourth on the Billboard 2006 year-end chart. It exited the U.S. top ten in August 2006 but re-entered in March 2007, and it has sold over 1.8 million units. In the United Kingdom Loose sold 33,000 copies in its first week, entering the albums chart at number five; in its forty-third week it reached number four, and it has been certified double platinum for shipments to retailers of over 600,000 copies. It has been certified two times platinum in Australia for over 140,000 units shipped; it reached number four there and was placed at number forty-four on the Australian ARIA list of 2006 bestsellers. The album entered the chart in Germany at number one, and it reached number one on the European Albums Chart in early 2007. It has spent thirty-six weeks in the German top ten, a record for the longest stay for an album in the top ten.
Worldwide, Loose was the thirteenth best-selling album of 2006 according to Media Traffic, with 3.07 million copies sold during its time on the United World Albums Chart. By March 2007, it had been certified gold or platinum in twenty-five countries. Furtado had previously said she believed Loose was "going to have the biggest reaction of all my albums". It was re-issued in early March 2007 in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Wikipedia
