Editing Beautiful Garbage (section)

==Commercial performance==
''Beautiful Garbage'' debuted at number 13 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] with first-week sales of 73,000 copies.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Whitmire |first=Margo |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/63203/careys-comeback-album-opens-at-no-1 |title=Carey's Comeback Album Opens At No. 1 |magazine=Billboard |date=April 20, 2005 |access-date=November 12, 2014}}</ref> It also debuted atop ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'}}s [[Top Electronic Albums]] chart, spending seven consecutive weeks at the top position.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRIEAAAAMBAJ&q=garbage+beautifulgarbage&pg=PA41 |title=Top Electronic Albums |magazine=Billboard |volume=113 |issue=48 |date=December 1, 2001 |page=41 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> As of August 2008, the album had sold 405,000 copies in the United States.<ref name="US-sales"/> The album peaked at number six on the [[Canadian Albums Chart]],<ref name="can"/> and on October 12, 2001, it was certified gold by the [[Canadian Recording Industry Association]] (CRIA).<ref name="MC"/>

In the United Kingdom, ''Beautiful Garbage'' sold 25,173 units to debut at number six on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/christie-leads-chart-into-new-era/033874 |title=Christie leads chart into new era |work=[[Music Week]] |date=April 17, 2005 |access-date=January 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826103851/http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/christie-leads-chart-into-new-era/033874 |archive-date=August 26, 2012}}</ref> The [[British Phonographic Industry]] (BPI) certified the album gold on October 19, 2001,<ref name="BPI"/> and by July 2007, it had sold 121,397 copies in the UK.<ref name="UK-sales"/> It was commercially successful across the rest of Europe, reaching the top five in Finland, France, and Ireland, and the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland.<ref name="ultratop"/><ref name="ire"/><ref name="spa"/>

The album debuted at number one on the Australian [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]] and received a platinum certification from the [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA).<ref name="aus"/><ref name="ARIA"/> In New Zealand, it debuted at number two on the [[Official New Zealand Music Chart|RIANZ Albums Chart]] and was certified gold by the [[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand]] (RIANZ).<ref name="nz"/><ref name="RIANZ"/> By December 2001, ''Beautiful Garbage'' had sold nearly 1.2 million copies worldwide.<ref>"''[[Music Week]]'' trade ad for [[Mushroom Records (UK)|Mushroom]]/[[Infectious Records|Infectious]]/[[Perfecto Records|Perfecto]]'s Winter 01/02 catalogue, published December 2001"</ref>