The Immaculate Collection

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The Immaculate Collection was certified thirteen-time platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It became the first album to use QSound, which then was a new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems.

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Due to this prohibition, the music video was commercially released as a video single, and become the highest-selling in this format of all time. Please note the sound quality of picture disc records may not always be comparable with that of a conventional black vinyl record. It became one of the all-time best-selling albums in Latin American countries such as Mexico and Brazil, with sales of over 800,000 and 500,000 copies, respectively. The second new song, "Rescue Me", is a dance-pop and gospel- house track written and produced by Madonna and Pettibone. Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.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". However, Chavez later sued Kravitz in 1992 and reached an out-of-court settlement whereby she received a co-writing credit. 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.

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In France, the album reached number four on the chart and was certified diamond by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP). A same-titled home video was also released, containing 13 music videos, including the live performance of "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.The Immaculate Collection is the first greatest hits album by American singer Madonna, released on November 13, 1990, by Sire Records. Madonna‘s first greatest hits set, 1990’s The Immaculate Collection will be reissued on double vinyl in June. AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album "remains a necessary purchase, because it captures everything Madonna is about and it proves that she was one of the finest singles artists of the '80s. Nick C Levine from Dazed magazine stated that The Immaculate Collection cemented Madonna's iconic status and "distilled her early career into one era-defining pop single after another. 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.

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Comprised of various labels we know and love at Rough Trade (Bella Union, ATO, Speedy Wunderground, Phantasy, Heavenly, Mute and more) PIAS [Recordings] filter through some of the most diverse artistry to our racks, which we greatly enjoy digging into. Rescue Me" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number fifteen—thus becoming the highest-debuting single since the Beatles' " Let It Be" (1970)—and eventually peaked at number nine. And the best thing is "NO 180 GRAM OVERWEIGHT BRICK" It's about 140 grams and just the perfect weight. After Billboard overturned the rule preventing older albums to chart on the Billboard 200 in November 2009, [64] The Immaculate Collection has made multiple re-entries on the chart, with the latest being its 148th week on September 10, 2016. 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.Selena Dieringer from Houston Press listed The Immaculate Collection among the "ten really fantastic Greatest Hits albums". All the previously released material were reworked through the QSound audio technology by Shep Pettibone, assisted by Goh Hotoda and Michael Hutchinson. The second single, "Rescue Me", had the highest debut on the chart since the Beatles' " Let It Be" (1970) and peaked at number nine.

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Kevork Djansezian of Tulsa World commented that "if the controversy, the outrage, the boycotts, and the sexual revolution it created don't spark your interest, at least you can have a great time dancing and lip-synching to its acclaimed and definitely catchy pop tracks. And, since this is above all expertly built, wonderfully sung music, the songcraft lets listeners ignore all of the above and just dance. It contains fifteen of her hit singles recorded throughout the 1980s, as well as two brand new tracks, " Justify My Love" and " Rescue Me". After being banned by MTV, the video was released on VHS and became the best-selling video single of all time. Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album.

Somebody worked really hard on this one—not only a beautiful presentation of this masterwork on colour vinyl, but a really gorgeous, careful mastering (they fixed all the sibilance heard on other cuts). Nevertheless, it became the highest-charting greatest hits album in a decade since Kenny Rogers's Greatest Hits (1980).