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What Lies Beneath is the third album by the Finnish singer Tarja Turunen. It was released on 1 September 2010 in Finland, on 3 September in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and on 14 September in Latin and North America. It is the first of Tarja's albums in which she is credited for composition on every track. The album sold around 1,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release. It landed at position 24 on the Billboard's Top Heatseekers, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists. In Finland, it was at 6th position after two months on the official Finnish charts, also spending two months in the German Top 100. In an interview with a Venezuelan radio on 19 May 2009, Tarja said that she has twenty songs ready to record, and she announced via her official blog that the recording process was finished on 14 April 2010. In a video interview with Metalhead magazine, on 21 June, she said that it "[...] will be a continuation of the method that I used on my first album, My Winter Storm"