The album reached number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, while topping the charts in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. E bisogna tener conto anche del buon risultato dell'monimo video, che sembra incontrare i gusti dei fans italiani: finora se ne sono venduti 16 mila, mentre le precedenti collezioni di clip o riprese live non superano, in genere, quote novemila. Earning elevenfold platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it became Madonna's second diamond-certified album in the United States. The promotional video was a fun homage to Marilyn Monroe's 1953 film 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend'.

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Into The Groove' captures her voice double-tracked, and singing in her lower register during the bridge, while the bouncy instrumental pours with synthesisers and slamming drum machines. A tinkling dance-pop tune, with a lilting arrangement and Madonna showing off her vocal range which sways from high to low at many points. The undertones of hot, pulsating funk on the playful 'Express Yourself' ( which she co-wrote with Steve Bray) proved that Madonna hadn't lost her impeccable touch for making great, infectious, jamming dance music. A box set titled The Royal Box was issued on December 4, 1990, containing the album, VHS, a poster, and postcards. J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of Madonna: An Intimate Biography, noted that a Madonna's greatest hits album was ready by that point, serving as "a proud landmark" of her career which had progressed upwards since she entered the music scene in 1982.Despite all its (unwarranted) controversy, 'Papa Don't Preach' became another thoroughly deserved major hit. It was first written as a love letter by Ingrid Chavez, who was having an affair with Kravitz at the time.

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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. In the United States, the release reached number one on the Top Music Videos chart, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over 300,000 copies across the country. He invited her over a studio to record the letter and later took a master copy of the song to Virgin Records after the end of their relationship. Also of note are two brand new recordings, “Justify My Love” and “Rescue Me”, predating the overtly salacious, trip hop-leaning “Erotica” era rather than celebrating her diverse, strident, dance-inflected brand of pop music, perhaps included to entice for fans old and new to purchase a copy should they fail to be incentivized by the shiny new remixes courtesy of Shep Pettibone. All tracks except the two singles were remixed by Shep Pettibone, Goh Hotoda and Michael Hutchinson through QSound, a then-new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems.By the end of the 1980s, Madonna had become the biggest female singles artist in history, with the most number-one and top-ten hit songs by a woman in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, Steinberg said the song was inspired by his own personal experiences of romance. A continuous arrangements are heard along the pumping bassline, while the lyrics are ambiguous and full of hidden innuendo. Crazy for You", the 1985 single from Vision Quest, was another UK re-release at the time, reaching number two on the chart. A box set titled The Royal Box was issued on December 4, 1990, containing the audio and video versions of the release, a poster, and postcards. In Madonna's home country, the album entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 32 on the week of December 1, 1990.The latest update of the Rolling Stone list was published in September 2020, showing the album rising to number 138. The album was originally titled Ultra Madonna, but the plan was changed as it was too similar to the name of Ultra Naté, a then-new artist in Warner Bros. Written by Madonna, with production again overseen by Jellybean Benitez along with Reggie Lucas, this medium-paced dance track employs the use of heavy drum beats, synthesisers, and guitars played in a high riff. Rooksby stated that "if you don't own any Madonna videos, and you'd like to, this is probably the one to start with. The Immaculate Collection won the prize for " Best Long Form Video" at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Madonna's vocal is delicate and evocative; gone are the squeaky, nasal sounds she possessed on her earlier hits. The lyrics deal with teenage pregnancy and abortion which quickly caused controversy shortly after its release. In Japan, The Immaculate Collection charted for 26 weeks on the Oricon Albums Chart, with a peak of number five. Naturally, Madonna rejected the notion of assembling the standard overview for pop stars at the end of their imperial phase.In doing so, she would reach yet another milestone, achieving a worldwide blockbuster that revived interest in her catalogue and would go on to become the best-selling compilation by a solo artist.