Sacred Love

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Sacred Love
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Studio album by
Sting
Released29 September 2003 (2003-09-29) [1]
Recorded2002–2003
Studio
Genre Pop rock, electronic, pop, world
Length52:37
Label A&M
Producer Sting, Kipper
Sting chronology
...All This Time
(2001)		Sacred Love
(2003)		 Songs from the Labyrinth
(2006)
Singles from Sacred Love
  1. "Send Your Love"
    Released: August 2003
  2. "Whenever I Say Your Name"
    Released: November 2003
  3. "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)"
    Released: 26 April 2004 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 66/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly B− [5]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by the English musician Sting. The album was released on 29 September 2003. The album featured smoother, R&B-style beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Some songs like "Inside" and "Dead Man's Rope" were well received; and Sting had experimented with new sounds, in particular the more rock-influenced "This War". [8]

Contents

Sting adapted the first quatrain of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence for the first four sung lines of "Send Your Love".

Sting's collaboration with Blige, "Whenever I Say Your Name", won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004. The first single "Send Your Love" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, but it lost to "Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake. [8]

In August 2015, Mylène Farmer and Sting duetted on Stolen Car and released it as the lead single from Farmer's tenth studio album, Interstellaires ; [9] the track is produced by The Avener. [10]

Track listing

All tracks written by Sting. All tracks produced by Sting and Kipper; co-production on "Send Your Love" by Victor Calderone, and "Never Coming Home" by BT.

No.TitleLength
1."Inside"4:46
2."Send Your Love" (featuring Vicente Amigo)4:38
3."Whenever I Say Your Name" (featuring Mary J. Blige)5:25
4."Dead Man's Rope"5:44
5."Never Coming Home"4:58
6."Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)"3:55
7."Forget About the Future"5:12
8."This War"5:29
9."The Book of My Life" (featuring Anoushka Shankar)6:14
10."Sacred Love"5:43

Bonus tracks

There have been multiple editions of this album. Some of them, such as the Japanese edition, feature various extra songs and remixes. Although the track list on the official Sting website includes a remix of "Send Your Love" and a live version of "Shape of My Heart", these are not always available. [8]

Depending on the edition, the following bonus tracks may be included:

Remix tracks

Personnel

Technical credits

Production credits

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [47] Platinum100,000^
Czech Republic—10,000 [48]
France (SNEP) [49] Gold100,000*
Germany (BVMI) [50] Gold100,000^
Hungary (MAHASZ) [51] Gold10,000^
Japan (RIAJ) [52] Gold92,053 [53]
Netherlands (NVPI) [54] Gold40,000^
Russia (NFPF) [55] Platinum20,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [56] Platinum40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [57] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [58] Platinum1,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [59] Platinum1,000,000*
Worldwide—2,500,000 [60]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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