Shania Twain enjoyed an extraordinary hat trick of album successes with her second, third and fourth releases. The Woman in Me in 1995, Come on Over in 1997, and Up! in 2002 all sold enough to earn diamond certification or better in the US – that’s over 10 million copies shifted, three times in a row, with the middle one selling more than 20 million. Those are some seriously comfy laurels to rest on for the Canadian country pop superstar.
Since Up!, there was nothing until the album Now, 15 years later. However her main problem was not counting her money but fixing her voice. A tick bite in 2004 gave her a case of Lyme disease that damaged her vocal cords. Open-throat surgery in 2018 improved things, though on this sixth album her tone does sound lower, with a bit more of a rocky rasp to it.
