5, 1997, and double platinum on June 16, 1997. By the end of 1997, the album had sold an additional 1.1 million copies in the United States according to Billboard. By July 2001, it had sold over three million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. By February 2003, the album had sold an additional 756,000 units through BMG Music Club. In Canada, One in a Million debuted at number 35 on [[RPM (magazine)|RPM s Top Albums/CDs]] chart on September 9, 1996, reaching its peak of number 33 the following week. In total the album has spent 9 consecutive weeks on the Top Albums/CDs chart. On May 28, 1997, it was certified gold by Music Canada for shipments of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted and peaked at numbers 33 and three on the UK Albums Chart and the UK R&B Chart, respectively, on September 7, 1996. It was eventually certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for 100,000 copies shipped in the UK. In Japan, the album peaked at number 36 on the Oricon Albums Chart and received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). As of August 2011, the album has sold over eight million copies worldwide. After Aaliyah's August 25, 2001 death, One in a Million returned to the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, as well as topping the US Top Catalog Albums chart for four weeks. It also re-entered the UK Albums Chart on two separate occasions–at number 106 on February 2, 2002, and at number 169 on April 26, 2003. Following its 2021 reissue, the album reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever, peaking at number ten with 26,000 album-equivalent units, including pure album sales of 13,000 units, streaming-equivalent albums (SEA) of 11,000 units (equaling 14.29 million on-demand streams of the album's tracks), and track-equivalent albums (TEA) of 2,000 units. Additionally, the album re-entered the UK R&B Chart at number eight. On September 4, 2021, its singles "If Your Girl Only Knew", "One in a Million" and "4 Page Letter" debuted at numbers 15, seven and 26 on the US Digital Song Sales, respectively. Impact and legacy In a retrospective review of One in a Million, Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine said it was "undoubtedly one of the most influential R&B albums of the '90s", and credited it for