Immaculate Collection: the Best of Madonna

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The Immaculate Collection peaked at number 10 in Germany and was certified triple gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), denoting 750,000 units shipped. I love the mixes of Express Yourself,Like A Prayer,Holiday,Into The Groove,La Isla Bonita,Open Your Heart and Vogue still all remain classic pop songs Justify My Love and Rescue me really show the way her next album was going to be like (Erotica)! 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.

The album reached number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, while topping the charts in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Madonna became the first female artist to achieve four number-one albums and the first female to have a Christmas number-one album in the United Kingdom. Instead, a short haired, brunette Madonna was featured on the two inner sleeves along with lyrics for the two previously unreleased tracks. Writing for The Guardian, Lucy O'Brien recommended The Immaculate Collection for listeners who want to discover Madonna's back catalog since her 1980s hits "are brilliantly captured" on the album.On October 13, 1990, Billboard magazine confirmed that Madonna had been working on new material for the album with Shep Pettibone and Lenny Kravitz.

In Japan, The Immaculate Collection charted for 26 weeks on the Oricon Albums Chart, with a peak of number five. In rare instances, light background ‘cackle’ can sometimes be heard although there is no reason why this should necessarily be the case. It contains fifteen of her hit singles recorded throughout the 1980s, as well as two brand new tracks, " Justify My Love" and " Rescue Me". This led to many believing it was dedicated to Pope John Paul II, but it was actually dedicated to her brother, Christopher Ciccone, who had spent the year on tour with Madonna on the Blond Ambition World Tour and whose nickname is "The Pope". In Madonna's home country, the album entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 32 on the week of December 1, 1990.All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album. Please note the sound quality of picture disc records may not always be comparable with that of a conventional black vinyl record. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. Peter Buckley, author of the book The Rough Guide to Rock, wrote that the album "stakes Madonna's claim to be the best singles act of the 80s.

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) certified it quadruple platinum for shipment of 800,000 copies.

In The Everything Mary Book (2006), editors explained "the album's colors of blue and gold resonate with some of the colors used in the traditional images of Virgin Mary". The second single, "Rescue Me", had the highest debut on the chart since the Beatles' " Let It Be" (1970) and peaked at number nine. It became the first album to use QSound, which then was a new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems. 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. J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of Madonna: An Intimate Biography, noted that a Madonna's greatest hits album was ready by that point, serving as "a proud landmark" of her career which had progressed upwards since she entered the music scene in 1982.

This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Justify My Love" was released as the lead single from the album, with a controversial music video featuring overtly sexual imagery. Madonna‘s first greatest hits set, 1990’s The Immaculate Collection will be reissued on double vinyl in June.Opens in a new window Opens an external site Opens an external site in a new window Newbury Comics - A Wicked Good Time! This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.