Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet is the debut studio album by American pop singer Giselle. The album was released on May 9, 2011 by Junction Records and became a worldwide commercial success, reaching top 3 in 5 countries and regions, and number one in 2 countries and regions. The album and its singles helped propel Giselle into mainstream popularity.
==Background and development==
While at home in Miami, Giselle became inspired to release a pop record. After previously writing songs for other artists, she felt it was time to go on her own. Because of her success as a songwriter, an A&R from Junction Records offered a deal with Giselle to record an album, she later accepted. Giselle wanted to make a pop record that would stand out, be "upbeat" but would not feature sappy love songs. Giselle began writing in the Fall/Winter of 2010, and recorded 23 choosing 11 of the best tracks for the album. Giselle was inspiried to continue the record after lisenting to a bach of Stephanie Fierce albums. Giselle at first envisioned the album to be a dance-pop record, but after trips to various Miami clubs, Giselle decided on a more eurodance and dubstep record with contemporary pop lyrics. She wanted a more futuristic sounding pop album, so she began to work with popular club DJs and top producers to help in the process pf Giselle's vision.
==Chart performance==
The album was expected to go top 20 worldwide and sell around a million copies by critics. The album was in fact a surprise success going top 3 in all countries and regions, managing to go to #1 in the USA and Europe to of the major target markets for the album. In its first week of release the album sold a combined total of 240,000 copies nabing the top spot on the world chart, a major feat for a new act. In its second week the album stayed at #1 in the USA, and top 3 worldwide the album was well on its way to breakthrough success. In just six weeks it sold over a million and in 3 more weeks it sold well over 2 million units. In early June the album moved over 4 million copies making it one of the fastest selling debut albums in history.
==Singles==
"On Another Level" was the first single released from the album on December 13, 2010 it proved to be a relatively minor success reached top 40 worldwide but still managing to sell over 1.6 million copies. In an effort for a bigger hit single, the label rushed the release of "Celebrate (Dance Floor Anthem) releasing it a month later on January 11, 2011 it managed to be the hit her team was looking for, it was an even bigger hit in the clubs, which led the album to further go into dance music. It too continued the hefty sales managing to sell over 1.7 million copies. With back to back million sellers the album was given the green light for release. The third single released on March 21, 2011 was "Insomnia" proved to be an even bigger hit than her previous singles going top 10 in the UK and Europe and slowing at number twelve in Canada, the single did flop in the US stalling at 35 and falling off the next week. "Fashion" was choosen as a promotional single on the day of the album release on May 9, 2011, it was originally released in Europe and South America only but it sold so well on iTunes that it was bumped as the fourth and final official single from the album. It proved to be a major success in part because of the video which features Giselle dancing. The video became viral and soon many videos mimicking the dance moves of Giselle were released, Giselle's video manged to gain well over 140 million views on YouTube.
==Tracklisting==
*All songs were written by Giselle
==Charts==
==Album==
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Ultraviolet	
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2	
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6,000,000+	
==Singles ==
Year	Song 	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions	Peak Positions
Year	Song 	US 	UK 	Can 	Aus & NZ 	
South America	Asia 	Europe 	World 	 	
2010
2011	On Another Level 	34 	38 	32 	32 	41 	34 	35 	29 	 	
2010
2011	Celebrate (Dance Floor Anthem)	31 	18 	22 	23 	23 	20 	19 	22 	 	
2011
2011	Insomnia 	35 	8 	12 	18 	21 	24 	10 	13 	 	
2011
2011	Fashion 	20 	22 	22 	13 	7 	7 	12 	14 	 	
Giselle (edit) 	
Singles: On Another Level | Celebrate (Dance Floor Anthem) | Insomnia | Fashion | Dangerous (feat. Glamazon) | Tribal Drums (Drums 'n' Bass Remix) | Ultraviolet (feat. Chloe)	
Studio Albums: Ultraviolet 	
Other Albums: Giselle in the Mix 	
Category:Pop
Category:Albums
Category:Number 1 Albums
Category:Number 1 Albums in the USA
Category:Dance
Category:number 1 albums in europe