Laundry service

chronology
Laundry service
Shakira studio album
Publication ; (s)	November 13, 2001
admission	2001
Label (s)	Epic Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Pop , rock
Title (number)	13
running time	49 min 6 s
production	Shakira, Emilio Estefan

Laundry Service (dt. Laundry ) is the first English-language album of Shakira . It was released on November 13, 2001, sold a total of 13 million copies and was one of the best-selling albums in 2002. The album was released in two other versions, Laundry Service: Washed & Dried and a Spanish version as Servicio de Lavanderia .

style

The dominant style of the album is rock . When recording the album with live musicians, they worked with Terry Manning , who had also worked with AC / DC , Lenny Kravitz and Led Zeppelin . Shakira's vocal performance is convincing and her singing style is compared to that of Alanis Morissette . In some pieces the influence of their origins comes to the fore, so that in Whenever, Wherever a panpipe can be heard , in Objection (Tango) a bandoneon and in Eyes Like Yours samba influences .

Texts

Shakira wrote the lyrics for the album alone. To write it in English, she had to buy dictionaries, read English poetry, and authors such as Walt Whitman and Leonard Cohen . In the songs she deals with everyday things. So act Ready For The Good Times by a cockroach and Poem To A Horse of a dispute with a stoned friend. In addition, she deals with love in her texts, as in Rules and The One . She also describes her love for the city of Madrid with the song Te Dejo Madrid .

The last two titles are the Spanish versions of Objection (Tango) and Whenever, Wherever and show their linguistic origins.

Track list

The following songs can be found on the album:

Objection (tango)
Underneath your clothes
Whenever, wherever
Rules
The One
Ready for the Good Times
Fool
Te Dejo Madrid
Poem to a Horse
Que Me Quedes Tú
Eyes Like Yours (Ojos Así)
Suerte (Whenever, Wherever)
Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)

Singles

These singles were released from the album:

2001: Whenever, Wherever / Suerte (Spanish version of the single)
2002: Underneath Your Clothes
2002: Objection (Tango) / Te Aviso Te Anuncio (Tango) (Spanish version of the single)
2002: Te Dejo Madrid
2003: The One
2003: Que Me Quedes Tu (released in Latin America and Spain only)
2004: Fool (released only in Brazil)

Commercial win

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	2 (76 weeks)	76
Austria (Ö3)	1 (71 weeks)	71
Switzerland (IFPI)	1 (84 weeks)	84
Spain (Promusicae)	77 (4 weeks)	4th
United States (Billboard)	3 (62 weeks)	62
United Kingdom (OCC)	2 (51 weeks)	51

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	2 × platinum	80,000
Australia (ARIA)	6 × platinum	420,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	(50,000)
Brazil (PMB)	gold	50,000
Denmark (IFPI)	platinum	(50,000)
Germany (BVMI)	5 × gold	(750,000)
Europe (IFPI)	4 × platinum	4,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	3 × platinum	(90,140)
France (SNEP)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(30,000)
Canada (MC)	5 × platinum	500,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	2 × platinum	300,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	3 × platinum	45,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	2 × platinum	(160,000)
Norway (IFPI)	platinum	(50,000)
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(60,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	platinum	(100,000)
Portugal (AFP)	3 × platinum	(60,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(160,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	5 × platinum	(200,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	5 × platinum	(500,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	platinum	(20,000)
Venezuela (APFV)	2 × platinum	20,000
United States (RIAA)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
All in all	2 × gold 62 × platinum	8,415,000