The Ultimate Collection | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Sade | ||||
Released | 29 April 2011 | |||
Recorded | 1984–2011 | |||
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Length | 133:03 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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Sade chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Ultimate Collection | ||||
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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 the hit singles "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 Have Never Guessed" and "Love Is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live. The album was later released as The Essential Sade under the Sony Legacy umbrella.
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. 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.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Ultimate Collection.
*sales figures based on certification alone