Immaculate Collection: the Best of Madonna

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It became the first album to use QSound, which then was a new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems. He invited her over a studio to record the letter and later took a master copy of the song to Virgin Records after the end of their relationship. It earned seven-time platinum certification from the Music Canada (MC) for shipments of 700,000 copies. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Earning elevenfold platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it became Madonna's second diamond-certified album in the United States. Lucy O'Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon deemed the album a "seamless marriage of high-octane pop and dance", as well as "the ultimate party record". By the end of the 1980s, Madonna had become the biggest female singles artist in history, with the most number-one and top-ten hit songs by a woman in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Well, actually some of the songs we changed up a bit, but most of the songs we kept in their original form. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Records that aren't in picture sleeves will either be in a company sleeve or a generic plain sleeve. Prior to its release as a single, "Rescue Me" started receiving airplay in the radios as an album cut. Justify My Love" was released as the lead single from the album, with a controversial music video featuring overtly sexual imagery.

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. Meno brillante il risultato di "I'm Breathless", uscito l'anno scorso: il disco legato all'esperienza cinematografica di "Dick Tracy" oggi in Italia e attestato attorno alle 300 mila copie. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. 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 received twelve-time platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and has sold over 880,000 copies as of January 2013, [74] making it the best-selling female compilation album ever in Australia. It jumped to number two on January 26, 1991, [62] being blocked from the top spot for two weeks by Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme. 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.

An extended play (EP) titled The Holiday Collection was also released in Europe with the same design as The Immaculate Collection. 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. 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. Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album.

According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, the album "captured the time when Madonna was the defining figure of American pop culture. It has been featured on all-time critic lists by several publications, including Blender which named it the greatest American album of all time.