Shakira entered the UK Albums Chart at number 14, while the album entered the Argentine's weekly chart at number 6. Upon release in the United States, the album debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200, with first week sales of 85,000 copies, and in doing so became the singer's highest-charting album on the chart, surpassing the number three peak of Laundry Service (2001), but her lowest first-week sales of her English albums. This sales figure was slightly better than initially predicted in the US for Shakira, which was initially expected to sell 75,000 to 80,000 copies in its first week. It dropped 66% to 29,000 in sales in the second week in the United States, falling from the second place to the fifth place.Reuters
