Editing Break the Cycle (section)

==Sales==
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Because of the record's high recording budget of $800,000, there were many worries about whether the album would be successful, and the album almost had to top charts internationally just to break even with studio costs. ''Break the Cycle'' debuted at number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], with first-week sales of at least 717,600 copies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-31-ca-4517-story.html|title=Staind Helps Hard Rock Get Rolling Again|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=May 31, 2001|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref> It remained at the top the following week, with 329,299 copies. In the third week it was number one again, with 244,698 copies. In the fourth week it dropped to number two, with 221,179 copies. It sold over 1&nbsp;million copies in the first three weeks. The album sold 4,900,000 copies in the US and was certified 5× platinum by the [[RIAA]]. ''Break the Cycle'' also topped charts in the UK, where it was certified platinum; in New Zealand; and in Canada, where it had multiplatinum status. In 2001 the album was the tenth best-selling globally, selling 5.6&nbsp;million copies.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42|title=Dido, Linkin Park Lead the Global 20 of 2001|last=White|first=Adam|date=February 16, 2002|access-date=May 13, 2022|magazine=Billboard|issn=0006-2510|page=42|volume=114|issue=7}}</ref>