Immaculate Collection: the Best of Madonna

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Occupying the top position for nine weeks, the album broke the record for the longest consecutive weeks at number one by a female artist, a feat that would not be matched for 20 years until the release of Adele's album 21 (2011). David Browne from Entertainment Weekly opined that the album was "as relentless as the woman herself", and "refocuses our attention on how brilliant her records have been over the years—and gives us a peek into the obstacles she might face as her career enters the '90s. Commercial performance [ edit ] The Immaculate Collection was the highest-charting greatest hits album on the Billboard 200 in a decade since Greatest Hits (1980) by Kenny Rogers.

Justify My Love and Rescue Me were the ‘new’ offerings, while many of the 15 other hits were edited remixed variants and not necessarily the single versions ( Like A Prayer being a good example).This first Greatest Hits album from Madonna was released in November 1990, and contains fifteen of her hit singles to that date, all slightly remixed and re-edited to reduce running times enough to fit all the tracks onto a single CD. On October 13, 1990, Billboard magazine confirmed that Madonna had been working on new material for the album with Shep Pettibone and Lenny Kravitz. I won`t get into any "my version is bla bla,with bla bla edit" all I know is if you`ve got a 90" OG European copy in near mint condition it will be FIRE! A box set titled The Royal Box was issued on December 4, 1990, containing the album, VHS, a poster, and postcards.

Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 775278. Across Europe, the album reached number one in Finland and Ireland, while peaking at number three on the pancontinental European Top 100 Albums chart. The second new song, "Rescue Me", is a dance-pop and gospel- house track written and produced by Madonna and Pettibone. However, he felt that "while all the hits are present, they're simply not in their correct versions" due to the QSound remastering and significant changes in several songs. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.The Immaculate Collection is the first of Madonna's greatest hits albums, covering all of her classics released between 1982 and 1990, and also featuring two new tracks for the time, which were Justify My Love and Rescue Me. Selena Dieringer from Houston Press listed The Immaculate Collection among the "ten really fantastic Greatest Hits albums". The Immaculate Collection has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, [57] [58] making it the best-selling compilation album ever by a solo artist and one of the world's best-selling albums of all time. Earning elevenfold platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it became Madonna's second diamond-certified album in the United States. With sales of over 30 million copies worldwide this is the best selling compilation album by a solo artist.

Minor alterations and additions have been applied to every track; for example, " Material Girl" has a new outro in place of the original fade-out. The Immaculate Collection has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling compilation album by a solo artist ever and one of the best-selling albums of all time.If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. The Immaculate Collection received universal acclaim from critics, who deemed it a defining retrospective of 1980s music. All the previously released material were reworked through the QSound audio technology, becoming the first ever album to use it.

It has been featured on all-time critic lists by several publications, including Blender which named it the greatest American album of all time. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It became the first album to use QSound, which then was a new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The Immaculate Collection was certified thirteen-time platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The album was originally titled Ultra Madonna, but the plan was changed as it was too similar to the name of Ultra Naté, a then-new artist in Warner Bros.