Upon release in the United States, the album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 85,000 copies, and in doing so became the singer's highest-charting album on the chart, surpassing the number three peak of Laundry Service (2001), but her lowest first-week sales of her English albums. This sales figure was slightly better than initially predicted in the US for Shakira, which was initially expected to sell 75,000 to 80,000 copies in its first week. The following week the album dropped three spots on the chart to number five, with 29,000 copies sold a decrease of 66 percent. To January 2015 the album sold over 5 million copies worldwide.