We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. In France, the album reached number four on the chart and was certified diamond by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP). showing] the Queen of Pop's progression from bubblegum-pop diva to the risk-taking, rule-breaking icon she went on to become in the 1990s. The Immaculate Collection has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, [57] [58] making it the best-selling compilation album ever by a solo artist and one of the world's best-selling albums of all time. Selena Dieringer from Houston Press listed The Immaculate Collection among the "ten really fantastic Greatest Hits albums".

Crazy for You", the 1985 single from Vision Quest, was another UK re-release at the time, reaching number two on the chart. Prior to its release as a single, "Rescue Me" started receiving airplay in the radios as an album cut. After Billboard overturned the rule preventing older albums to chart on the Billboard 200 in November 2009, [64] The Immaculate Collection has made multiple re-entries on the chart, with the latest being its 148th week on September 10, 2016. In 2022, it was included in the Rolling Stone Italia list of the 10 greatest hits albums that "made history". Aunque se trata de un sólo disco, incluye las dos fundas interiores de aquel entonces, además de un booklet en japonés.If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. The John "Jellybean" Benitez production credit on track A3 is only listed on the label, not on the sleeves.

The album's title is a pun on the Immaculate Conception, a conception of the Virgin Mary without the stain of original sin. In The Everything Mary Book (2006), editors explained "the album's colors of blue and gold resonate with some of the colors used in the traditional images of Virgin Mary".Writing for The Guardian, Lucy O'Brien recommended The Immaculate Collection for listeners who want to discover Madonna's back catalog since her 1980s hits "are brilliantly captured" on the album. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.

Commercial performance [ edit ] The Immaculate Collection was the highest-charting greatest hits album on the Billboard 200 in a decade since Greatest Hits (1980) by Kenny Rogers. The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) certified it quadruple platinum for shipment of 800,000 copies. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. On October 13, 1990, Billboard magazine confirmed that Madonna had been working on new material for the album with Shep Pettibone and Lenny Kravitz.

Lucy O'Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon deemed the album a "seamless marriage of high-octane pop and dance", as well as "the ultimate party record".