Decade (Duran Duran album) explained

Decade
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Duran Duran
Cover:	Duran Duran-Decade–Greatest Hits.jpg
Released:	15 November 1989
Recorded:	1980–1988
Genre:	Pop rock new wave synth-pop dance-rock
Length:	59:50
Label:	EMI
Producer:	Duran Duran Daniel Abraham Jason Corsaro Bernard Edwards Jonathan Elias Ian Little Shep Pettibone Nile Rodgers Alex Sadkin Colin Thurston
Prev Title:	Big Thing
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Liberty
Next Year:	1990

Decade is a greatest hits album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran, released on 15 November 1989.^{[1] [2]}

The remix single "Burning the Ground" was released to radio to promote this album. It was created by producer John Jones by mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new piece of music. However, the track was not included on the Decade album itself. The tracks "My Own Way" and "New Moon on Monday" were also not included, even though both were top 20 hits in the UK.

Decades track listing included various hits from all of Duran Duran's albums and presented them in mixes that were popular and mainstream among the public. Hence, it includes the Nile Rodgers edit of "The Reflex" and the single edits of "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Notorious" and "Skin Trade", as well as the Shep Pettibone single mix of "I Don't Want Your Love". Oddly, though there are many versions and single edits of the song "Rio", the compilation uses the standard album version, as well as the UK single version for "Save a Prayer".

Personnel

• Daniel Abraham – production, engineering, mixing
• Hans Arnold – illustrations
• John Barry – arrangement, conducting
• Jason Corsaro – production, engineering, mixing
• Duran Duran – production
• Bernard Edwards – production
• Jonathan Elias – production
• Laura Levine – photography
• Ian Little – production, mixing
• Denis O'Regan – photography
• Steve Peck – mixing
• Shep Pettibone – production, mixing
• Nile Rodgers – production, mixing
• Bob Rosa – mixing
• Alex Sadkin – production, mixing
• Stephen Sprouse – illustrations
• Colin Thurston – production, engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1989–1990)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[3]	89
European Albums (Music & Media)^[4]	27
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)^[5]	22

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)! scope="col"

Position
UK Albums (Gallup)^[6]	84

Notes and References

1. Goldmine Record Album Price Guide - Page 204 "Decade"
2. Chic - Page 10 In 1985 Rodgers produced albums for Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, The Thompson Twins, Mick Jagger, and many others, ... with releases by the Dan Reed Network, Slam, and Duran Duran's compilation, Decade, which was appropriately titled.
3. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. PDF. 89.
4. European Top 100 Albums . . 6 . 48 . 2 December 1989 . VIII . 29800226 . World Radio History.
5. Web site: Classifiche . . it . 29 May 2022. Select "Album" in the "Tipo" field, type "Duran Duran" in the "Artista" field and press "cerca".
6. Year End Albums . . 20 January 1990 . 42 . 0144-5804 . World Radio History.