it continued to remain among the top 10, and on 19 December 2004 it ranked tenth on the list. The album stayed among the top 10 albums for about five months. According to MÜ-YAP, the album sold 406,000 copies in 2004, and as a result it received a gold certification. In 2005, the remixed versions of the songs "Bu Sabah", "Bir Yangının Külünü", "Gökyüzünde Yalnız Gezen Yıldızlar", "Melek", "Sonsuz" and "Şehir" were included in the album Remix'5 and released by Pasaj Müzik. Critical reception Melek received positive reviews from music critics. Noktas Cumhur Canbazoğlu described Erçetin as "one of the rare names that can produce works exclusive to themselves" and noted that just like her other albums that were released in the 2000s Erçetin had continued to produce her new work using the elements of Turkish pop music. He also stated that with Melek, the singer had addressed a wide range of listeners "from hip-hop to art music, from Balkan melodies to Western ballads with modern infrastructures." Radioman Michael Kuyucu believed that Melek had more potential to become a hit than the singer's previous album. He believed that in the album Erçetin portrays "a sad, sometimes desperate woman, and deals with desperation of a large part of the society, causing an uproar." In his opinion, the album's format was as if someone was talking to himself/herself and Melek was in fact the story of the lives of Erçetin's audience. Hürriyet Tolga Akyıldız wrote that Candan Erçetin had not broken the consistency and professionalism of her posture since her first album. The "modern but simple arrangements with consistent and self-confident sounds" in the album caught his attention. He also stated that the album "was about a woman whose love pains are not over, and despite being abandoned and facing unfaithfulness, she had learned to stand on her own". Music video Erçetin had described the album's lead single "Melek" as "a cheerful song that sees life through pink glasses, doesn't feed us troubles, and helps us realize different angels in life". The first music video of the album was made for this song. It was directed by Bozkurt Bayer and recorded in Nişantaşı, Şişli. The video was released on 30 September 2004. Erçetin played in the video together with the baby İpek Işık, her cat Blanche, and her boyfriend of two months. Soykut Turan did the video's cinematography. The second and final