We could have had 2 more:

 

Timor

Something

 

:heart:

Because Hips Don't Lie did amazingly well, and the next single did badly :lol: So there was probably no need to waste more money on other singles if they were probably going to flop, especially as HDL sold shedloads.

yeah Slick you probably are right but also shakira got caught up with her Longgggggggggg 119 date tour :P and instead we got more singles for FO vol 1 Like LDLI/Pure Intuition.

essay alert!! :(

 

as slick and daveloveshaki said HDL was a monster of a hit equivalent to 2 big singles it had amazing momentum and longevity sony didn't need to release another single, they made so much money from that song maybe 4 million+ sales worldwide of that track alone. which includes 500,000+ in the UK sony met its international targets with the fixation era. shakira selling around 7 to 8 million with both albums FO1 and OF2 plus add to that HDL sales, oh how can i forget the Mega International Hit "La Tortura" single sales!! add another million plus to the total. she is so strong she's got the loyal latin amercian market plus US and europe (remember in the UK no promo support for HDL) embracing her. she is probably sony's most profitable artist

 

she made alot of money for them they didn't need to dip into their profits and promote a 4th single especially if shakira wasn't free to promote it, which brings us to the tour....the 3rd single "illegal" from OF2 clashed with the tour bad timing, once she started touring she probably told sony she wanted to concentrate on the world tour and not do any more promo work. not many artists can get away with telling a record company that but i think in shakira's contract she has a lot of control. what she did was reasonable cause you have to take in to consideration she has been doing promo since early 2005 for the fixation era 2 albums which had 8 releases in all. it was alot for her to take on the double album project. "illegal" didn't even get a full release in the US sony spent little money promoting it. another example of sony not spending money to help maximise profits...they only full promoted 2 single from OF2 a successful album which is a really a rare thing to do with an A list artist but OF2 had strong legs after HDL it was shifting healthy sales worldwide, the could sit back and watch the huge profits roll in.

 

i would have chosen "Animal City" as 3rd single. "Timor" would have been a brave release but risky it would have done either really well (most likely in Europe) or under performed massively (most likely in the US) but i'd have loved to see how it would have done

 

BUT there is a small chance that "Pure Intuition" will be released as a single to help promote the tour DVD, if shakira isn't getting married next month and she wants to keep working instead of taking her well deserved break then she may be willing to promote it but i think the fixation era is over, but we got loads of new material coming our way!! :cheer: bring on the santana and wyclef collabos!! plus shakira' next album which i don't think will be a double project maybe one mega 15+ track album both spanish & english with 5 or 6 international releases. that era should be better with timing etc and we'll see shakira fully support it!!

 

She had 2 albums out at the same time, soooo to save money she obv couldn't be bothered to release more english singles after one of them did so well :lol: and we had Beautiful Liar aswel

yeh after hips dont lie she just needed 2 go n get a new album under her belt n come back better with a stronger album! x

To be honest it's more like 'Why Only 2 Singles?' :lol: Dont Bother and Illegal. Hips Dont Lie and Beautiful Liar dont really count.

Animal City should of been released though! :wub:

Animal City, Costume Makes The Clown and Dreams For Plans were all potential singles IMO. :(