The Ultimate Collection | ||||
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Released | 29 April 2011 | |||
Recorded | 1983–2011 | |||
Length | 133:03 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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Sade chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Ultimate Collection | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | [1] |
AllMusic | [2] |
Contactmusic.com | [3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
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. [5] In March 2014, the album was re-released as The Essential Sade under the Sony Legacy umbrella. [6]
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." [4] 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." [7] 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." [1]
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. [8] 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. [9] As of August 2011, the set had sold 127,000 copies in the United States. [10]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Your Love Is King" (from Diamond Life , 1984) | Robin Millar | 3:42 | |
2. | "Smooth Operator" (from Diamond Life) |
| Millar | 4:18 |
3. | "Hang On to Your Love" (from Diamond Life) |
| Millar | 4:32 |
4. | "The Sweetest Taboo" (from Promise , 1985) |
| Millar | 4:27 |
5. | "Is It a Crime?" (from Promise) |
| Millar | 6:22 |
6. | "Never as Good as the First Time" (from Promise) |
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| 3:58 |
7. | "Jezebel" (from Promise) |
| Millar | 5:27 |
8. | "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" (from Stronger Than Pride , 1988) |
| 4:20 | |
9. | "Paradise" (from Stronger Than Pride) |
| 3:38 | |
10. | "Nothing Can Come Between Us" (from Stronger Than Pride) |
| 3:54 | |
11. | "No Ordinary Love" (from Love Deluxe , 1992) |
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| 7:21 |
12. | "Kiss of Life" (from Love Deluxe) |
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| 4:14 |
13. | "Feel No Pain" (from Love Deluxe) |
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| 5:11 |
14. | "Bullet Proof Soul" (from Love Deluxe) |
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| 5:25 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cherish the Day" (from Love Deluxe) |
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| 6:20 |
2. | "Pearls" (from Love Deluxe) |
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| 4:34 |
3. | "By Your Side" (from Lovers Rock , 2000) |
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| 4:41 |
4. | "Immigrant" (from Lovers Rock) |
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| 3:50 |
5. | "Flow" (from Lovers Rock) |
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| 4:34 |
6. | "King of Sorrow" (from Lovers Rock) |
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| 4:47 |
7. | "The Sweetest Gift" (from Lovers Rock) |
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| 2:21 |
8. | "Soldier of Love" (from Soldier of Love , 2010) |
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| 5:58 |
9. | "The Moon and the Sky" (from Soldier of Love) |
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| 4:29 |
10. | "Babyfather" (from Soldier of Love) |
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| 4:40 |
11. | "Still in Love with You" (previously unreleased) |
| 4:26 | |
12. | "Love Is Found" (previously unreleased) |
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| 4:11 |
13. | "I Would Never Have Guessed" (previously unreleased) |
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| 2:57 |
14. | "The Moon and the Sky" (Remix featuring Jay-Z) (previously unreleased) |
| Noah "40" Shebib | 4:27 |
15. | "By Your Side" (Neptunes Remix) (from "By Your Side" single, 2000) |
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| 3:59 |
No. | Title | Director [12] | Length |
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1. | "Hang on to Your Love" | Brian Ward | 3:59 |
2. | "The Sweetest Taboo" | Ward | 5:02 |
3. | "Is It a Crime" | Ward | 7:03 |
4. | "Never as Good as the First Time" | Ward | 3:55 |
5. | "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" | Sophie Muller | 4:24 |
6. | "Paradise" | Alex McDowell | 3:35 |
7. | "Turn My Back on You" | Muller | 4:05 |
8. | "Nothing Can Come Between Us" | Muller | 3:52 |
9. | "No Ordinary Love" | Muller | 4:01 |
10. | "Feel No Pain" | Albert Watson | 3:48 |
11. | "Kiss of Life" | Watson | 4:12 |
12. | "Cherish the Day" | Watson | 4:23 |
13. | "By Your Side" | Muller | 4:27 |
14. | "King of Sorrow" | Muller | 4:42 |
15. | "Soldier of Love" | Muller | 5:01 |
16. | "Babyfather" | Muller | 4:01 |
Total length: | 70:30 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Ultimate Collection. [13]
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [55] | Gold | 10,000‡ |
Hungary (MAHASZ) [56] | Gold | 3,000^ |
Italy (FIMI) [57] | Gold | 25,000* |
Poland (ZPAV) [58] | 4× Platinum | 80,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI) [59] | Gold | 100,000‡ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref(s) |
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Australia | 29 April 2011 | Sony | [60] [61] | |
Germany |
| [62] [63] [64] | ||
France | 2 May 2011 | [65] [66] [67] | ||
United States | 3 May 2011 |
| Epic | [68] [69] |
United Kingdom | 9 May 2011 |
| RCA | [70] [71] [72] |
Germany | 20 May 2011 | LP | Sony | [73] |
United Kingdom | 23 May 2011 | RCA | [74] | |
United States | 24 May 2011 | Epic | [75] | |
Japan | 22 June 2011 | CD | Sony | [76] |
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