The Immaculate Collection

The Immaculate Collection
Compilation album by Madonna
Publication (s)	November 9, 1990 (USA)
Label (s)	Sire / Warner Brothers Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	17th
running time	73 min 34 s
occupation	John "Jellybean" Benitez, Reggie Lucas, Nile Rodgers, Stephen Bray, Patrick Leonard, Shep Pettibone, Lenny Kravitz
production	John "Jellybean" Benitez, Reggie Lucas, Nile Rodgers, Stephen Bray, Patrick Leonard, Shep Pettibone, Lenny Kravitz
Studio (s)	Various
chronology I'm breathless The Immaculate Collection Erotica
Single releases November 6, 1990 Justify My Love February 26, 1991 Rescue Me March 1991 Crazy For You (Remix) March 1991 Holiday (re-release)

The Immaculate Collection is Madonna's first greatest hits album from 1990. It is her eighth album release. The associated video collection was also published under the same title.

Emergence

The Immaculate Collection was released in 1990, one of the most successful years in Madonna's career: after the album Like a Prayer , the film Dick Tracy (including the album “ I'm Breathless ”) and the sold out “Blond Ambition World Tour”, one should first hit collection presenting the most successful singles from 1983 to 1990. With over 30 mostly successful releases, not all could be considered - hits like “ Who's That Girl ”, “ Angel ” or “ True Blue ” are missing.

The 15 hits included were from Shep Pettibone and Goh Hotoda in the Right Track Studios and SoundWorks developed in the newly restarted Q-Sound , which is to a pseudo-surround sound produce, mixed , and not to exceed the limited capacity of a single CD , partly significantly shortened. Mastering was carried out by Ted Jensen at Masterdisk.

The two new songs were "Justify My Love", a collaboration with Lenny Kravitz , and " Rescue Me ", a production by Shep Pettibone. Both titles have in common that for the first time Madonna did not sing, but rather spoke - a reference to the following album Erotica . Above all, “Justify My Love” became one of their great global successes due to its erotic video: After the controversial video by Jean-Baptiste Mondino was no longer shown by many music channels, or only shown after midnight, because it was too suggestive to them Warner Bros. released it as a purchase video. It became the best-selling of the time. "Rescue Me" could not build on this success, but the song should not be released at all in the beginning - therefore no video was produced for it. It was only after it ran successfully on radio and clubs that it was published regularly (with moderate success). A loose live compilation of the “Blond Ambition World Tour” served as the music video.

The Holiday Collection was released to further promote the album . A maxi CD / EP , which, in addition to “Holiday”, also contains the songs “ Who's That Girl ”, “Causing a Commotion” and “ True Blue ” that are missing from The Immaculate Collection . In the UK , “Holiday” and “ Crazy for You ” were successfully re-released.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, The Immaculate Collection is still the best-selling hit compilation by an artist (with over 30 million copies sold) . The album, which she dedicated to the Pope , can be found regularly on lists (like Rolling Stone or Melody Maker ) of the best rock and pop albums. In 1995, Something to Remember, a ballad collection followed, and in 2001 GHV2 (Greatest Hits Volume 2), a compilation that covers the period 1992 to 2001. In 2009 the fourth compilation was released, which she had to publish due to her contract. It is called Celebration and contained 32 of its most important single releases from 1982 to 2009, the two new songs Celebration and Revolver.

Photographs by star photographer Herb Ritt were used for the black and white cover and booklet photos . Ritts was responsible for the previous album covers of True Blue , You Can Dance , Like a Prayer and I'm Breathless .

In 2006 the album was named one of the “Capital Gold's All-Time Top 500” in the British charts.

Track list

1. Holiday
2. Lucky Star
3. Borderline
4. Like a virgin
5. Material girl
6. Crazy for You
7. Into the groove
8. Live to Tell
9. Papa don't preach
10. Open your heart
11. La Isla Bonita
12. Like a prayer
13. Express yourself
14. Cherish
15. Vogue
16. Justify My Love
17. Rescue Me

Video versions

In 1990 the associated video collection The Immaculate Collection was published on VHS and Laserdisc . The DVD version was released in 1999 .

Content:

1. Lucky Star (Director: Arthur Pierson)
2. Borderline (Director: Mary Lambert )
3. Like a Virgin (Director: Mary Lambert)
4. Material Girl (Director: Mary Lambert)
5. Papa Don't Preach (Director: James Foley)
6. Open Your Heart (Director: Jean-Baptiste Mondino )
7. La Isla Bonita (Director: Mary Lambert)
8. Like a Prayer (Director: Mary Lambert)
9. Express Yourself (Director: David Fincher )
10. Cherish (Director: Herb Ritts)
11. Oh Father (Director: David Fincher)
12. Vogue (Director: David Fincher)
13. Vogue (Live / 1990 MTV Video Music Awards )

Charts

album

year	title	Chart placements					annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	The Immaculate Collection 1	10	6th	3	1	2	First published: November 13, 1990 Sales worldwide: 30 million

Singles

year	title	Chart placements					Sales	annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1990	Justify My Love "The Immaculate Collection"	10	9	3	2	1	3.025 million	First published November 17, 1990 Video: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
1991	Crazy for You (Remix) "The Immaculate Collection"	nv	nv	nv	2	nv	1	First published February 1991 Video: Harold Becker
1991	Rescue Me "The Immaculate Collection"	21st	/	11	3	9	1.15 million	First published March 2, 1991 mix video
1991	Holiday (re-release) "The Immaculate Collection"	nv	nv	nv	5	nv	1	First published June 1991 Video: Live performance

• " Crazy for You " and " Holiday " (also " The Holiday Collection ") were only released in the UK.
• ¹ unknown sales.

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	3 × platinum	180,000
Australia (ARIA)	12 × platinum	840,000
Brazil (PMB)	2 × platinum	500,000
Denmark (IFPI)	platinum	100,000
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	750,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	92,500
France (SNEP)	diamond	1,000,000
Japan (RIAJ)	4 × platinum	800,000
Canada (MC)	7 × platinum	700,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	7 × platinum	105,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	3 × platinum	300,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	50,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Spain (Promusicae)	3 × platinum	300,000
United States (RIAA)	diamond	10,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	12 × platinum	3,600,000
All in all	2 × gold 59 × platinum 2 × diamond	19,317,500

Main article: Madonna (artist) / Awards for music sales