Shania Twain (album)

Shania Twain
Original album cover; 2000 reissue uses an alternate cover
Studio album by Shania Twain
Released	April 20, 1993
Recorded	1992–1993
Studio	Music Mill Recording Studio (Nashville)
Genre	Country
Length	30:41
Label	Polygram Mercury
Producer	Harold Shedd Norro Wilson
Shania Twain chronology
Shania Twain (1993) The Woman in Me (1995)
Singles from Shania Twain
"What Made You Say That" Released: March 6, 1993 "Dance with the One That Brought You" Released: July 13, 1993 "You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me" Released: September 7, 1993

Shania Twain is the eponymous debut studio album by Canadian singer Shania Twain, released on April 20, 1993, by Polygram and Mercury Records. After assembling a demo tape to send to labels, Mercury Nashville took an interest and signed her a contract. Unlike her later albums, Twain had very little input on the album.

The album was a commercial flop during its original release, only reaching number 67 on the US Country Albums chart. Three singles were released from the album, none of which cracked the top 40 at country radio. The album was later re-released in 2000 following the massive success of Twain's later albums. It was later certified Platinum by the RIAA in 1999.

After her subsequent albums The Woman in Me (1995) and especially Come On Over (1997) catapulted her to superstardom, Twain essentially disowned this album and has not performed any material from it live following the conclusion of her Come on Over Tour in 1999. Even during the aforementioned tour, only the song "What Made You Say That" was included from the album in her setlist despite her only having three albums of material at the time to draw from.^[1] In addition, no selections from it were included on her 2004 Greatest Hits album. "What Made You Say That" is included on her Netflix documentary companion compilation album Not Just a Girl (The Highlights) released on July 26, 2022.