Even though Sparks' self-titled 2007 album had the slowest first-week sales of any "American Idol" winner up till that time (more on that in a bit), it still did eventually manage to sell over a million copies. The same will probably never be said of her lackluster sophomore set, which, faced with lukewarm reviews and fan indifference, fell off the Billboard 200 album chart after just 11 weeks and sales of 120,000.
In the following weeks, Basic Instinct continued to tumble down the charts. In week two it registered the eighth biggest fall on the Billboard 200, dropping fifty places to number ninety-four.[44] On the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart is registered the seventh largest fall of the week, only falling eleven places to number twenty-two.[45] In February 2011, online rumors were circulated that Ciara had been dropped from Jive Records due to te album's lack of commericial success. In an official statement, Ciara revealed that she never had the support of her label on the album. Aside from funding one of the album's music videos, and paying for the radio release of "Gimmie Dat," she revealed that the label no longer saw her as commercially viable. Consequently due to Basic Instinct's performance, Ciara has officially asked to be released from her recording contract.