Norah's new album sells a million in first week Options

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The new album from Norah Jones, daughter of Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, has shot to the top of the US charts, selling more than a million copies in its first week. Feels like Home is the first album to break through the one-million barrier in its debut week since N-Sync's 'Celebrity' in 2001. The album is Jones's follow-up to her enormously successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a collection of old and new torch songs, sung in a sultry jazz-pop vocal style, that sold 17 million copies worldwide and garnered eight Grammy awards.

According to her recording label, EMI, the new album charted at number one in 16 countries. 'This is the kind of achievement that one can only expect from a truly original, extraordinary artist like Norah,'’ said Bruce Lundvall, head of EMI's blue note label. 'It's not very often that an artist can span so many genres and enjoy such broad appeal. But that's what happens when the music is this good.

Ironically, Jones, 24, thought she was avoiding instant fame and megabucks when she first signed with blue note, a jazz label whose top sellers previously had been John Coltrane and Bobby McFerrin. The Texasraised New Yorker was so stunned by the success of 'Come Away with Me' that she reportedly approached Lundvall and requested that he stop promoting the album lest it was overplayed.

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Wow, just 24 and selling 17million copies of her album.

That's it. It's decided. I'm bringing out my own album. Anyone interested in playing music?