The Ultimate Collection (Sade album) explained

The Ultimate Collection
Type:greatest
Artist:Sade
Cover:Sade - The Ultimate Collection.png
Recorded:1983–2011
Length:133:03
Label:RCA
Producer:
Prev Title:Soldier of Love
Prev Year:2010

The Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by English band Sade, released on 29 April 2011 by RCA Records. The album includes several singles from the band's career, including "Your Love Is King", "Smooth Operator", "By Your Side", "No Ordinary Love" and "Soldier of Love". It also contains four previously unreleased tracks—a cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 song "Still in Love with You", a remix of "The Moon and the Sky" featuring Jay-Z, and the songs "I Would Never Have Guessed" and "Love Is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in 10 years, Sade Live.[1] In March 2014, the album was re-released as The Essential Sade under the Sony Legacy umbrella.[2]

Critical reception

Will Hermes of Rolling Stone stated, "Few singers have the consistency of vision to produce a career retrospective that doubles as a seamless 'let's make out on the carpet' mixtape. From 1985's jazzy 'Smooth Operator' to tracks from last year's excellent Soldier of Love, it's all state-of-the-art slow-jams all the time, driven by Sade Adu's touch-me-now contralto." Lloyd Bradley of BBC Music commented, "The best thing about this set is it'll allow anybody who didn't quite get the band first time around to catch up."[3] In a mixed review, Jeff Winbush of All About Jazz wrote, "No such luck. As things stand, a more accurate title would be The Adequate Collection because there's little ultimate about this bare bones piece of product."

Commercial performance

The Ultimate Collection debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 15,184 copies, becoming Sade's seventh top-10 album in the United Kingdom.[4] In the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at number seven with 38,000 copies sold in its first week, earning the band their ninth consecutive top-10 album on the chart.[5] As of August 2011, the set had sold 127,000 copies in the United States.[6]

Track listing

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Ultimate Collection.[7]

Sade

Additional musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)[8] 8
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[9] 32
Croatian Albums (HDU)[10] 1
Greek Albums (IFPI)[11] 9
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[12] 22
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)[13] 42
Russian Albums (2M)[14] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (2011)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)[15] 37
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[16] 73
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[17] 84
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[18] 32
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[19] 2
Russian Albums (2M)[20] 20
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[21] 92
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[22] 50
Chart (2012)! scope="col"
Position
Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)[23] 48
Chart (2016)! scope="col"
Position
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[24] 12

Release history

Region! scope="col"
DateFormatLabel
Australia29 April 2011Sony[25] [26]
Germany[27] [28] [29]
France2 May 2011[30] [31] [32]
United States3 May 2011Epic[33] [34]
United Kingdom9 May 2011RCA[35] [36] [37]
Germany20 May 2011LPSony[38]
United Kingdom23 May 2011RCA[39]
United States24 May 2011Epic[40]
Japan22 June 2011CDSony[41]

Notes and References

  1. Sade Embarks on First Global Tour in Ten Years Kicking Off North American Leg on June 16th, 2011 in Baltimore, MD . Los Angeles . . 30 September 2010 . 31 May 2011 . PR Newswire.
  2. Web site: Kellman . Andy . The Essential Sade – Sade . AllMusic . 5 December 2019.
  3. Web site: Bradley . Lloyd . Review of Sade – The Ultimate Collection . . 23 June 2019 . 2011.
  4. Web site: Jones . Alan . Laurie fails to knock Adele from top . . 16 May 2011 . 19 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110522041303/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1045218 . 22 May 2011.
  5. Caulfield . Keith . Lucky Seventh Week at No. 1 For Adele's '21' . . 11 May 2011 . 19 January 2014.
  6. Peters . Mitchell . The Love Movement . Billboard . 123 . 34 . 27 August 2011 . 19 . 0006-2510 . Google Books.
  7. The Ultimate Collection . liner notes . Sade . RCA Records . 2011 . 88697899382.
  8. Web site: ARIA Top 40 Urban Albums Chart . . 16 May 2011 . 19 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110518161137/http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_urban.asp?chart=1Q40RB&chart2=1R40RB . 18 May 2011.
  9. Web site: Albums : Top 100 . . 19 May 2011 . 5 December 2019 . usurped . https://archive.today/20110524122731/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html . 24 May 2011.
  10. Web site: Top Kombiniranih – Tjedan 21. 2011. . Top Combined – Week 21, 2011 . hu . . 24 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170929091232/http://www.hdu-toplista.com/index.php?what=arhiva&w=details&id=940 . 29 September 2017.
  11. Web site: Top 75 Combined Repertoire (Albums) – Εβδομάδα 23/2011 . el . . 17 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622034417/http://www.ifpi.gr/chart01.htm . 22 June 2011.
  12. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/76816/products/918463/1/ . ja:アルティメイト・コレクション(初回生産限定盤) シャーデー . Ultimate Collection (Limited Edition) Sade . ja . . 3 October 2015.
  13. Web site: Mexicancharts.com – Sade – The Ultimate Collection . Hung Medien . 24 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121025010306/http://mexicancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Sade&titel=The%2BUltimate%2BCollection&cat=a . 25 October 2012.
  14. Web site: https://lenta.ru/articles/2011/05/27/chart/ . ru:Ленинградское время . . ru . 27 May 2011 . 24 June 2012.
  15. Web site: ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Urban Albums 2011 . Australian Recording Industry Association . 9 January 2013.
  16. Web site: Jaaroverzichten 2011 – Albums . nl . Ultratop . 25 June 2012.
  17. Web site: Rapports annuels 2011 – Albums . fr . Ultratop . 25 June 2012.
  18. Web site: Összesített album- és válogatáslemez-lista – eladási darabszám alapján – 2011 . hu . MAHASZ . 30 July 2022.
  19. Web site: Top 100 – annual chart: 2011 . . 25 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140103023622/http://zpav.pl/rankingi/listy/top100/roczna.php?lang=2&idlisty=583 . 3 January 2014.
  20. Web site: TOP50 АЛЬБОМOB 2011 . Lenta.ru . ru . 5 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190417023146/https://lenta.ru/i/music/rmi2011.pdf . 17 April 2019.
  21. Web site: Årslista Album – År 2011 . sv . . 3 October 2015 . https://archive.today/20160416164049/http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/netdata/ghl002.mbr/lista?liid=83&dfom=20110001 . 16 April 2016.
  22. Web site: Year End Charts – Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums . Billboard.biz . 2011 . 25 June 2012 . https://archive.today/20120630150047/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2011/r-and-and-b-hip-hop-albums . 30 June 2012.
  23. Web site: ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Urban Albums 2012 . Australian Recording Industry Association . 9 January 2013.
  24. Web site: W 2016 roku najlepiej sprzedającym się albumem było "Życie po śmierci" O.S.T.R. . pl . Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . 12 January 2017 . 5 December 2019.
  25. Web site: Ultimate Collection by Sade . . 1 April 2014.
  26. Web site: The Ultimate Collection (Remastered) by Sade . . 29 April 2011 . Australia . 1 April 2014.
  27. Web site: The Ultimate Collection . . de . Germany . 1 April 2014.
  28. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [Box-Set, CD+DVD] ]. Amazon . de . Germany . 1 April 2014.
  29. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [+Video]

    Sade: MP3-Downloads ]

    . Amazon . de . Germany . 1 April 2014.
  30. Web site: Ultimate collection – Sade – CD album . fr . . 5 December 2019.
  31. Web site: Ultimate collection – Inclus DVD – Sade – CD album . fr . Fnac . 5 December 2019.
  32. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [+Video]

    Sade: Téléchargements MP3 ]

    . Amazon . fr . France . 1 April 2014.
  33. Web site: The Ultimate Collection . Amazon . United States . 28 April 2011.
  34. Web site: The Ultimate Collection: Sade: MP3 Downloads . Amazon . United States . 1 April 2014.
  35. Web site: The Ultimate Collection . Amazon . United Kingdom . 1 April 2014.
  36. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [Box set] ]. Amazon . United Kingdom . 1 April 2014.
  37. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [+Video]

    Sade: MP3 Downloads ]

    . Amazon . United Kingdom . 1 April 2014.
  38. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [Vinyl LP] ]. Amazon . de . Germany . 1 April 2014.
  39. Web site: The Ultimate Collection [VINYL] ]. Amazon . United Kingdom . 1 April 2014.
  40. Web site: The Ultimate Collection (Vinyl) . Amazon . United States . 1 April 2014.
  41. Web site: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/Sade/discography/EICP-1463 . ja:アルティメイト・コレクション . The Ultimate Collection . ja . . 1 April 2014.

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