Diva: The Singles Collection

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Diva: The Singles Collection
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Compilation album by
Sarah Brightman
ReleasedUS: 3 October 2006 (2006-10-03)
Genre Classical crossover
Length66:28
Label Angel Records
Producer Frank Peterson
Sarah Brightman chronology
Love Changes Everything
(2005)		Diva: The Singles Collection
(2006)		 Symphony
(2008)

Diva: The Singles Collection is a 2006 compilation album by Sarah Brightman. Alongside this album, Brightman released a DVD collection of her music videos on 3 October 2006 under the title of Diva: The Video Collection . The album marked the first time Brightman released a greatest hits album in the United States. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart. In Japan, the album debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 77,000 copies sold on its first week of release, and became Japan's best-selling classical album of 2007. [1] Subsequently, it was Japan's fifteenth best-selling international album of the 2000s decade. [2] Diva was also the best-selling western album in South Korea in 2010, as it topped the international charts for 26 non-consecutive weeks. As of December 2013, it has been certified Quintuple Platinum in the country. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Phantom of the Opera" (with Steve Harley) (Mike Batt, Charles Hart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe) – 4:39
  2. "The Music of the Night" (Hart, Lloyd Webber, Stilgoe) – 5:25
  3. "Pie Jesu" (with Paul Miles-Kingston) (Lloyd Webber) – 3:58
  4. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (Brian May) – 3:56
  5. "Tu Quieres Volver" (Tonino Baliardo, Maurice Baliardo, Jacques Baliardo, Jahloul Bouchikhi, Nicolas Reyes, André Reyes, Paul Reyes) – 3:49
  6. "Just Show Me How to Love You" (with José Cura) (Baldan Bembo) – 4:00
  7. "Deliver Me" (Helena Marsh, Jon Marsh) – 4:01
  8. "Nella Fantasia" (Ennio Morricone) – 3:40
  9. "Scarborough Fair" (Frank Peterson, Paul Simon) – 4:12
  10. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) – 3:39
  11. "It's a Beautiful Day" (Christopher von Deylen, Frank Peterson) – 3:58
  12. "What You Never Know" (Stephan Moccio) – 3:25
  13. "A Question of Honour (Radio Mix)" (Frank Peterson) – 5:18
  14. "Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò)" (with Andrea Bocelli) (Peterson, Lucio Quarantotto, Francesco Sartori) – 4:06
  15. "Il Mio Cuore Va" (Japanese bonus track)"
  16. "Sarahbande (Japanese bonus track)"

Personnel

Charts and certifications

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