[3] Big Shiny Tunes 2 debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart,[4] with 128,000 units sold in its first week.

[5] It ended up being the third best-selling album of 1997 in Canada,[6] despite being on sale for less than a month of the year.

By March 1998, the album was certified Diamond by the CRIA for sales of 1 million units.

[7] Big Shiny Tunes 2 went on to sell 1,233,000 copies before going out of print.

Despite being out of print, Big Shiny Tunes 2 is still the fourth best-selling album ever in Canada of the Nielsen SoundScan era as of 2020.