The Immaculate Collection
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{{short description|1990 greatest hits album by Madonna}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = The Immaculate Collection
| type = greatest
| artist = Madonna
| cover = Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.png
| border = yes
| alt =
| released = November 13, 1990
| recorded = 1983–1990
| studio =
| genre = Pop
| length = 73:32
| label = *Sire
| producer = *Madonna
- Lenny Kravitz
- Shep Pettibone (new tracks)
| prev_title = I'm Breathless
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Erotica
| next_year = 1992
| misc = {{Singles
| name = The Immaculate Collection
| type = greatest
| single1 = Justify My Love
| single1date = November 6, 1990
| single2 = Rescue Me
| single2date = February 26, 1991
}}
}}
The Immaculate Collection is the first greatest hits album by American singer Madonna, released on November 13, 1990, by Sire Records. It contains fifteen of her hit singles recorded throughout the 1980s, as well as two brand new tracks, "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me". All the previously released material were reworked through the QSound audio technology, becoming the first ever album to use it. Meanwhile, the new material saw Madonna working with Lenny Kravitz and Shep Pettibone. The album's title is a pun on the Immaculate Conception, a Marian dogma of the Catholic Church.
The release of the album was accompanied by a same-titled home video release, an EP titled The Holiday Collection, and a box set titled The Royal Box. "Justify My Love" was released as the lead single from the album, with a controversial music video featuring overtly sexual imagery. After being banned by MTV, the video was released on VHS and became the best-selling video single of all time. It also became Madonna's ninth number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The second single, "Rescue Me", had the highest debut on the chart since the Beatles' "Let It Be" (1970) and peaked at number nine.
The Immaculate Collection received universal acclaim from critics, who deemed it a defining retrospective of 1980s music. 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. Earning elevenfold platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it became Madonna's second diamond-certified album in the United States. The Immaculate Collection has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling compilation album by a solo artist ever and one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been featured on all-time critic lists by several publications, including Blender which named it the greatest American album of all time.
Background and development
File:Lenny Kravitz - Rock in Rio Madrid 2012 - 43 (cropped).jpg co-wrote and produced "Justify My Love", one of two new songs recorded for The Immaculate Collection.|alt=Lenny Kravitz onstage in a tank top, while placing his right hand on his chest]]
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.{{harvnb|McAleer|1990|p=109}}{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-10.pdf|title=Finally. A greatest hits album that lives up to its name.|magazine=Billboard|page=2|date=November 10, 1990|access-date=March 24, 2021|archive-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307174744/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-10.pdf|url-status=live}} 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.{{harvnb|Taraborrelli|2001|pages=202–203}} Following the completion of the 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, Madonna began preparing the project aimed to be released in time for the year's Christmas season.{{harvnb|Bego|2000|p=256}} On October 13, 1990, Billboard magazine confirmed that Madonna had been working on new material for the album with Shep Pettibone and Lenny Kravitz.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-10-13.pdf|title=Inner City On 'Fire'; Capitol Catches Disco Fever|magazine=Billboard|page=31|first=Larry|last=Flick|date=October 13, 1990|access-date=March 24, 2021|archive-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307135635/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-10-13.pdf|url-status=live}}
The Immaculate Collection contains fifteen previously released Madonna singles in chronological order, from "Holiday" (1983) to "Vogue" (1990). All of them were reworked using QSound by Pettibone, alongside Goh Hotoda and Michael Hutchinson within a month and a half.{{cite news|url=http://www.sheppettibone.com/sp_erotica_diaries.htm|title=Erotica Diaries|last=Pettibone|first=Shep|author-link=Shep Pettibone|website=ShepPettibone.com|access-date=July 4, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071114101938/https://www.sheppettibone.com/sp_erotica_diaries.htm|archive-date=November 14, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy}} It became the first album to use QSound, which then was a new technology that gives recordings three-dimensional sound on standard stereo systems.{{cite magazine|last1=Rosen|first1=Craig|last2=Nunziata|first2=Susan|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-24.pdf#page=8|title=More Top Artists Follow Madonna's Move To QSound|date=November 24, 1990|access-date=August 10, 2020|magazine=Billboard|issue=47|volume=102|page=8|archive-date=October 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011184623/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-24.pdf#page=8|url-status=live}} Tracks have been edited down from their original lengths to decrease the overall running time. Minor alterations and additions have been applied to every track; for example, "Material Girl" has a new outro in place of the original fade-out. Pettibone also remixed "Into the Groove", "Like a Prayer", and "Express Yourself", featuring different music productions from their original album versions.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6575923/vogue-producer-shep-pettibone-interview|title='Vogue' Producer Shep Pettibone's First Interview in 20 Years: On Making a Madonna Classic & Why He Left Music Behind|magazine=Billboard|first=Keith|last=Caulfield|date=May 22, 2015|access-date=September 6, 2022|archive-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524101656/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6575923/vogue-producer-shep-pettibone-interview|url-status=live}} Pettibone later commented:
Well, actually some of the songs we changed up a bit, but most of the songs we kept in their original form. Like "Holiday", "Lucky Star", et cetera, et cetera, those were all the original productions. The remix was just really to create the QSound, and make the song kind of envelop you when you listened to it in a certain sweet spot in front of the speakers [...] That wasn't easy to do. But then again, that was one of those—you know, "Hurry up, this has to be out last week". That was a rush rush job.
Two new songs, "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me", were included on the album in order to generate public interest.{{harvnb|Rooksby|2004|p=82}} "Justify My Love" is a trip hop song, featuring Madonna's spoken word vocals over a "grinding, sparse" hip hop groove.{{cite magazine |author=Billboard Staff |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/6494746/madonna-best-songs |title=Madonna's 15 Best Songs: Billboard Staff Picks |magazine=Billboard |date=March 9, 2015 |access-date=2022-08-28 |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617094610/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/6494746/madonna-best-songs |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |first= Larry |last= Flick |title= Dance Trax |magazine= Billboard |date= 1990-11-17 |page= 26 |access-date= 2020-10-14 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-17.pdf |archive-date= October 13, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201013184032/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-17.pdf |url-status= live }} It was first written as a love letter by Ingrid Chavez, who was having an affair with Kravitz at the time. 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.{{harvnb|O'Brien|2008|pp=214–215}} Months later, Kravitz told Chavez that the song would be released by Madonna and he asked her to sign a document saying that Chavez would receive 12.5% publishing royalties, but no writing credit. She signed the paper, and was then invited to meet Madonna in the studio while they mixed the track. However, Chavez later sued Kravitz in 1992 and reached an out-of-court settlement whereby she received a co-writing credit.{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/18da79ec116d10caa5da624264703e6a|title=Settlement Reached in Lawsuit over 'Justify My Love' Credit|date=January 29, 1992|work=Associated Press|access-date=April 12, 2014|archive-date=December 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000601/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/Settlement-Reached-in-Lawsuit-over-Justify-My-Love-Credit/id-18da79ec116d10caa5da624264703e6a|url-status=live}} The second new song, "Rescue Me", is a dance-pop and gospel-house track written and produced by Madonna and Pettibone.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8006663/madonna-erotica-album-sex-book-oral-history|title=Madonna's 'Erotica' Turns 25: An Oral History of the Most Controversial '90s Pop Album|last=Lynch|first=Joe|date=October 20, 2017|access-date=June 2, 2018|magazine=Billboard|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194810/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8006663/madonna-erotica-album-sex-book-oral-history|archive-date=February 5, 2018}} Lyrically, "Rescue Me" expresses the extinguishing of deranged behavior in a relationship and features spoken word verses, like on "Justify My Love".{{harvnb|Fouz-Hernández|Jarman-Ivens|2004|p=181}}
Packaging, release, and promotion
File:The Immaculate Collection.jpg pressings of The Immaculate Collection]]
The album was packaged in a gatefold sleeve which did not feature Madonna's image on the cover. Instead, a short haired, brunette Madonna was featured on the two inner sleeves along with lyrics for the two previously unreleased tracks. Photographer Herb Ritts shot the booklet's black-and-white images, which previously appeared in the June 1990 issue of Interview magazine.{{cite magazine|title=Madonna!|magazine=Interview|volume=XX|number=6|date=June 1990|first=Glenn|last=O'Brien|author-link=Glenn O'Brien|issn=0149-8932}} Madonna continued referencing Catholicism on The Immaculate Collection, dedicating the album to "The Pope, my divine inspiration" on its booklet. This led to many believing it was dedicated to Pope John Paul II, but it was actually dedicated to her brother, Christopher Ciccone, who had spent the year on tour with Madonna on the Blond Ambition World Tour and whose nickname is "The Pope".{{harvnb|Sickels|2013|p=376}} 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".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XorrDQAAQBAJ&q=The%20Immaculate%20Collection|title=The Everything Mary Book|publisher=Simon & Schuster|access-date=September 9, 2022|date=2006|url-access=limited|first1=Jenny|last1=Schroedel|first2=John|last2=Schroedel|isbn=1-60550-316-9|via=Google Books|archive-date=September 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923071054/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Everything_Mary_Book/XorrDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The%20Immaculate%20Collection|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.rhino.com/article/happy-25th-madonna-the-immaculate-collection|title=Happy 25th: Madonna, The Immaculate Collection|date=November 9, 2015|publisher=Rhino Entertainment|access-date=September 6, 2022|archive-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154710/https://www.rhino.com/article/happy-25th-madonna-the-immaculate-collection|url-status=live}} However, it was marketed in Japan with the title Ultra Madonna: Greatest Hits.
The Immaculate Collection was released in the United States on November 13, 1990, by Sire Records.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-03.pdf#page=106|title=November Hot Album Releases|page=88|magazine=Billboard|date=November 3, 1990|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154712/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-03.pdf#page=106|url-status=live}} A same-titled home video was also released, containing 13 music videos, including the live performance of "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1990/CB-1990-10-27.pdf#page=23|title=Dance/Rap: A Couple of Video Compilations|first=Ernest|last=Hardy|page=23|magazine=Cash Box|date=October 27, 1990|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=November 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127195336/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1990/CB-1990-10-27.pdf#page=23|url-status=live}} A box set titled The Royal Box was issued on December 4, 1990, containing the album, VHS, a poster, and postcards.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-12-08.pdf#page=113|title=Boxed-Set Onslaught Gets Mixed Reaction|date=December 8, 1990|page=81|magazine=Billboard|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908072042/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-12-08.pdf#page=113|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Network-40/90/Network-40-1990-11-02.pdf#page=24|title=Madonna "Justify My Love" (Sire/Warner Bros)|page=24|date=November 2, 1990|magazine=The Network Forty|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507194334/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Network-40/90/Network-40-1990-11-02.pdf#page=24|url-status=live}} An extended play (EP) titled The Holiday Collection was also released in Europe with the same design as The Immaculate Collection. The full-length album version of "Holiday" was included on the EP, alongside three worldwide chart hits omitted from the album: "True Blue", "Who's That Girl", and "Causing a Commotion".{{harvnb|Rooksby|2004|p=90}} In 1993, a "limited edition" of The Immaculate Collection was released in Australia to commemorate Madonna's visit to the country with the Girlie Show tour.{{cite AV media notes |title=The Immaculate Collection (Limited Australian Tour Edition)|others=Madonna|date=1993|publisher=Warner Music Australia|id=0 7599-26440-2 0}} A Dolby Atmos mix of The Immaculate Collection was released in May 2023 via Apple Music.{{cite web|url=https://www.madonna.com/news/title/the-immaculate-collection-now-available-in-dolby-atmos|title=The Immaculate Collection Now Available in Dolby Atmos|publisher=Madonna's Official Website|date=May 5, 2023|access-date=May 6, 2023|archive-date=May 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506001749/https://www.madonna.com/news/title/the-immaculate-collection-now-available-in-dolby-atmos|url-status=live}}
"Justify My Love" was released as the album's lead single on November 6, 1990. It became her ninth number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten in many other countries.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1991/MM-1991-01-12.pdf|title=Top 10 in Europe|magazine=Music & Media|volume=8|issue=2|page=29|date=January 12, 1991|access-date=November 22, 2019|archive-date=November 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103073826/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1991/MM-1991-01-12.pdf|url-status=live}} The black-and-white music video caused controversy for its sexually explicit imagery and was banned by MTV.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1998/11/20/justify-my-love-was-too-raunchy-1990/|title=Madonna Banned|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=May 27, 2008|last=Rich|first=Joshua|date=November 20, 1998|archive-date=May 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521191755/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,285759,00.html|url-status=live}} Due to this prohibition, the music video was commercially released as a video single, and become the highest-selling in this format of all time.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/the-15-most-nsfw-music-videos-of-all-time-20110713/madonna-justify-my-love-1990-0480243|title=Madonna, 'Justify My Love' (1990)|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 18, 2015|date=July 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615174010/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/the-15-most-nsfw-music-videos-of-all-time-20110713/madonna-justify-my-love-1990-0480243|archive-date=June 15, 2012}} Liz Smith from Sarasota Herald-Tribune commented that the headlines and gossip would only hype more interest in the album.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19901203&id=cjsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hnoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5515,4840163&hl=en|title=Bad Publicity Is Good for Madonna|first=Liz|last=Smith|date=December 3, 1990|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154710/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19901203&id=cjsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hnoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5515,4840163&hl=en|url-status=live}}
Prior to its release as a single, "Rescue Me" started receiving airplay on radio as an album cut.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1991/BB-1991-02-16.pdf|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight|last=Ellis|first=Michael|date=February 16, 1991|access-date=June 2, 2018|magazine=Billboard|pages=76}} "Rescue Me" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number fifteen—thus becoming the highest-debuting single since the Beatles' "Let It Be" (1970)—and eventually peaked at number nine. The single also reached number three on the European Hot 100 Singles chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1991/MM-1991-05-04.pdf|title=Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|date=May 4, 1991|access-date=November 7, 2016|pages=22–25|archive-date=July 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713093905/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1991/MM-1991-05-04.pdf|url-status=live}}
"Crazy for You" was re-released as a single in the UK, and later peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. "Holiday" was also re-released as a UK-only single on May 27, 1991, and peaked at number five on the chart.{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/28948/madonna/|title=Madonna: Artist Discography|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=May 25, 2009|archive-date=March 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318212925/http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/28948/madonna/|url-status=live}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| title = Contemporaneous reviews
| rev1 = North County Blade-Citizen
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|4}}{{cite news|last=Bennett|first=Dan|date=November 30, 1990|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/572521239/?match=1&terms=%22The%20Immaculate%20Collection%22|title=Madonna's 'Collection' contains her greatest hits|newspaper=North County Blade-Citizen|page=4|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 16, 2025}}
| rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev3 = Select
| rev3score = {{rating|5|5|full=U+25A0.svg|rating=medal}}{{cite journal|title=Madonna: The Immaculate Progression|last=Harrison|first=Andrew|date=January 1991|journal=Select|issn=0959-8367|pages=41–42|volume=7|issue=1}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| title = Retrospective reviews
| rev1 = Blender
| rev1Score ={{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|last=Power |first=Tony |url=http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2346.html |title=Madonna – The Immaculate Collection |date=September 2003 |access-date=September 18, 2016 |work=Blender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818000324/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2346.html |archive-date=August 18, 2004 |url-status=dead }}
| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly
| rev2Score = A{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,168394_2,00.html|title=The Girl Material|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Jim|last=Farber|date=July 20, 2001|access-date=February 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024180555/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,168394_2,00.html|archive-date=October 24, 2012}}
| rev3 = Q
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite journal|last=Eccleston|first=Danny|date=March 1998|title=Disco-Graphy|journal=Q|issue=138|issn=0955-4955|page=92}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| title = Music guides
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r12210|access-date=September 8, 2022|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|title=Madonna – The Immaculate Collection}}
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{harvnb|Larkin|2006|p=427}}
| rev3 = MusicHound Rock
| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/madonna/albumguide|title=Madonna: Album Guide|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705190231/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/madonna/albumguide|archive-date=July 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}
| rev5 = Spin Alternative Record Guide
| rev5score = 8/10{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor1-link=Eric Weisbard|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|chapter=Madonna|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1995|isbn=0-679-75574-8|pages=235–236}}
| rev6 = Tom Hull – on the Web
| rev7 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music
| rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{harvnb|Larkin|2000|p=246}}
}}
The Immaculate Collection received universal acclaim from music critics. AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album "remains a necessary purchase, because it captures everything Madonna is about and it proves that she was one of the finest singles artists of the '80s." However, he felt that "while all the hits are present, they're simply not in their correct versions" due to the QSound remastering and significant changes in several songs. Billboard commented that the album was "irresistible holiday buying fare", and praised the QSound process for adding "unheard detail and depth to the recordings".{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-24.pdf#page=100|title=Album Reviews|date=November 24, 1990|access-date=August 5, 2020|magazine=Billboard|page=72|issue=47|volume=102|archive-date=October 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011184623/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-11-24.pdf#page=100|url-status=live}} David Browne from Entertainment Weekly opined that the album was "as relentless as the woman herself", and "refocuses our attention on how brilliant her records have been over the years—and gives us a peek into the obstacles she might face as her career enters the '90s."{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1990/12/14/immaculate-collection/|title=The Immaculate Collection|first=David|last=Browne|date=December 14, 1990|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908100654/https://ew.com/article/1990/12/14/immaculate-collection/|url-status=live}} Jim Farber of the same magazine stated: "More than a mere greatest-hits set, it's hands down the catchiest collection of '80s singles." Peter Buckley, author of the book The Rough Guide to Rock, wrote that the album "stakes Madonna's claim to be the best singles act of the 80s."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PA628|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Peter|last=Buckley|page=628|publisher=Rough Guides|year=2003|isbn=978-1-84353-105-0|access-date=September 9, 2022|via=Google Books|archive-date=September 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923071054/https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PA628|url-status=live}}
Rolling Stone called the album the "standard bearer for Madonna compilations", summing up the first stage of Madonna's career "flawlessly" with an addition of "worthy sensual" new tracks. In a review for Music & Media, Pieter de Bruyn Kops complimented the album's new material as "brilliant" and said that "Madonna proves again she is the ruling Queen of Pop."{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-12-01.pdf#page=10|title=Previews: Albums|first=Pieter de Bruyn|last=Kops|page=18|magazine=Music & Media|date=December 1, 1990|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=April 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408000556/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1990/MM-1990-12-01.pdf#page=10|url-status=live}} Danny Eccleston from Q magazine said the album's "ambitious title" was justified by "magnificent content: 17-track best of enhanced by the hard-faced sexiness of Lenny Kravitz-aided Justify My Love (and Rescue Me)." Robert Christgau called it "the greatest album of [Madonna's] mortal life" featuring "seventeen hits, more than half of them indelible classics." Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album."{{cite web|last=Breihan|first=Tom|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2118335/the-number-ones-madonnas-whos-that-girl/columns/the-number-ones/|title=The Number Ones: Madonna's "Who's That Girl"|work=Stereogum|date=March 8, 2021|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=September 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907215744/https://www.stereogum.com/2118335/the-number-ones-madonnas-whos-that-girl/columns/the-number-ones/|url-status=live}} Ross Bennett from Mojo called the album "truly the best of best of's" and stated: "This has to be right up there with ABBA Gold as a collection of singles so deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness [...] But there is no denying the pop nous behind Ms Ciccone's first 15 years of hits, here brilliantly packaged in, gasp, chronological order."{{cite web|url=http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/12/madonna.html|title=Madonna – The Immaculate Collection|work=Mojo|access-date=January 6, 2015|first=Ross|last=Bennett|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616114109/http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/12/madonna.html|archive-date=June 16, 2013}}
J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun considered it "no mere greatest hits" and commented, "Immaculate? Impeccable is more like it."{{cite web|last=Considine|first=J.D.|authorlink=J.D. Considine|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1990-11-16-1990320070-story.html|title=The Immaculate Collection - Madonna (Sire 26440)|date=November 16, 1990|accessdate=January 18, 2023|work=The Baltimore Sun|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712043654/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1990-11-16-1990320070-story.html|archivedate=July 12, 2021|url-status=live}} 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".{{harvnb|O'Brien|2008|p=217}} Select{{'}}s Andrew Harrison wrote: "Given that she's had the good grace to leave out second-raters [...] it's hard to fault this wonderful collection. You might find better music this Christmas but you'll never hear better pop." Kevork Djansezian of Tulsa World commented that "if the controversy, the outrage, the boycotts, and the sexual revolution it created don't spark your interest, at least you can have a great time dancing and lip-synching to its acclaimed and definitely catchy pop tracks."{{cite web|last=Djansezian|first=Kevork|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/classic-cd-review-immaculate-collection-revels-in-its-own-glorious-bubblegum-pop/article_f030b317-8fc4-5c75-a120-446e7182eac7.html|title=Classic CD Review: 'Immaculate Collection' revels in its own glorious bubblegum pop|date=August 2, 2002|access-date=August 5, 2020|work=Tulsa World|archive-date=November 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105040752/https://tulsaworld.com/archive/classic-cd-review-immaculate-collection-revels-in-its-own-glorious-bubblegum-pop/article_f030b317-8fc4-5c75-a120-446e7182eac7.html|url-status=live}} Douglas Wolk from Pitchfork stated that the album is "the kind of perfect straight-into-orbit retrospective pop artists dream of achieving."{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13590-celebration/|work=Pitchfork|date=October 19, 2009|access-date=November 27, 2009|title=Album Reviews: Madonna: Celebration|author=Wolk, Douglas|archive-date=May 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505054615/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13590-celebration/|url-status=live}}
Commercial performance
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The Immaculate Collection has sold over 30 million copies worldwide,{{cite news|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/3uuw8u/happy-birthday-madonna|title=Happy Birthday, Madonna!|first=John|last=Mitchell|publisher=MTV|date=August 16, 2011|access-date=August 18, 2011|archive-date=September 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908103545/https://www.mtv.com/news/3uuw8u/happy-birthday-madonna|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20071113jk.html|title=Words to Live by: Goh Hotoda|last=Kawaguchi|first=Judith|date=October 23, 2007|work=Japan Times|access-date=December 2, 2009|archive-date=May 29, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529182226/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20071113jk.html|url-status=live}} making it the best-selling compilation album ever by a solo artist and one of the world's best-selling albums of all time.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0323/1224313742569.html | newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=January 6, 2015|title=Girl gone wild: is it time for Madonna to grow up?|date=March 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121356/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0323/1224313742569.html |archive-date=March 23, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/30-years-in-the-spotlight-madonnas-highs-and-lows|title=30 years in the spotlight: Madonna's highs and lows|date=June 1, 2012|access-date=March 3, 2015|work=The National|location=Abu Dhabi|archive-date=August 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802020107/http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/30-years-in-the-spotlight-madonnas-highs-and-lows|url-status=live}} In Madonna's home country, the album entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 32 on the week of December 1, 1990.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1990-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312083435/http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1990-12-01|archive-date=March 12, 2015|title=Top 200 Albums|magazine=Billboard|access-date=September 8, 2022}} It jumped to number two on January 26, 1991,{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1991/BB-1991-01-26.pdf#page=11|title=Surface Tops Hot 100 Chart For 'First Time'; AC /DC On Cutting 'Edge' As Song Hits Top 30|first=Paul|last=Grein|magazine=Billboard|date=January 26, 1991|access-date=September 8, 2022|archive-date=February 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208154232/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1991/BB-1991-01-26.pdf#page=11|url-status=live}} being blocked from the top spot for two weeks by Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6516968/madonna-21-top-10-albums|title=Madonna's 21 Top 10 Albums: From 'Madonna' to 'Rebel Heart'|last=Caulfield|first=Keith|date=April 10, 2015|access-date=August 2, 2016|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=March 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317083841/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6516968/madonna-21-top-10-albums|url-status=live}} Nevertheless, it became the highest-charting greatest hits album in a decade since Kenny Rogers's Greatest Hits (1980).{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/Billboard-1990-12-22.pdf#page=13|title=Rock-A-Bye-Bye: Genre Left Behind In '90; Vanilla Ice Still Hot; 'Immaculate' Reception|page=13|first=Paul|last=Grein|magazine=Billboard|date=December 22, 1990|access-date=September 9, 2022|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121215357/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1990/Billboard-1990-12-22.pdf#page=13|url-status=live}} After Billboard overturned the rule preventing older albums to chart on the Billboard 200 in November 2009,{{cite magazine|first=Gary |last=Trust |title=Billboard 200 Undergoes Makeover |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/266686/billboard-200-undergoes-makeover |magazine=Billboard |date=November 17, 2009 |access-date=November 17, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703041316/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/266686/billboard-200-undergoes-makeover |archive-date=July 3, 2014 }} The Immaculate Collection has made multiple re-entries on the chart, with the latest being its 148th week on September 10, 2016.{{cite magazine |first=Rosalie |last=Cabison |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/2016-09-09 |title=Billboard 200 |magazine=Billboard |date=2016-09-10 |access-date=2022-08-28 |archive-date=August 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154913/https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/2016-09-09/ |url-status=live }} The album also spent 290 weeks on the Catalog Albums chart, with a peak of number six. The Immaculate Collection became Madonna's second album, after Like a Virgin (1984), to receive diamond award from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and was later certified eleven-time platinum denoting 11 million album-equivalent units. After the advent of the Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold over 5,992,000 copies as of 2016.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7617649/ask-billboard-madonnas-career-album-sales|title=Ask Billboard: Madonna's Career Album Sales|first=Gary|last=Trust|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 12, 2016|date=December 11, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212105609/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7617649/ask-billboard-madonnas-career-album-sales|archive-date=December 12, 2016}} In early 2025, the album debuted and peaked at number eight on the Top Dance Albums chart, making it her sixth top ten entry and ninth overall. This makes Madonna the only artist to have one album from five and consecutive decades enter the top 10.https://www.billboard.com/artist/madonna/chart-history/elp/https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2025/03/06/madonnas-beloved-album-returns-to-its-all-time-high/
In Canada, The Immaculate Collection topped the RPM albums chart for six consecutive weeks.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/RPM/90s/1991/RPM-1991-02-23.pdf#page=8|title=Charts|first=Tim|last=Evans|magazine=RPM|date=February 23, 1991|access-date=September 9, 2022|archive-date=January 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117214031/https://worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/RPM/90s/1991/RPM-1991-02-23.pdf#page=8|url-status=live}} It earned seven-time platinum certification from the Music Canada (MC) for shipments of 700,000 copies. It became one of the all-time best-selling albums in Latin American countries such as Mexico and Brazil, with sales of over 800,000 and 500,000 copies, respectively. In Australia, the album debuted at number one on the albums chart, remaining at the top for five weeks and the top 50 for 95 weeks. It received twelve-time platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and has sold over 880,000 copies as of January 2013, making it one of the best-selling albums in Australia. In Japan, The Immaculate Collection charted for 26 weeks on the Oricon Albums Chart, with a peak of number five. The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) certified it quadruple platinum for shipment of 800,000 copies.
The Immaculate Collection debuted atop the UK Albums Chart on November 24, 1990. Madonna became the first female artist to achieve four number-one albums and the first female to have a Christmas number-one album in the United Kingdom.{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1990/MW-1990-11-24+Brits-1991.pdf#page=13|title=Chart Focus|first=Alan|last=Jones|magazine=Music Week|date=November 24, 1990|access-date=September 9, 2022|archive-date=February 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201193722/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1990/MW-1990-11-24+Brits-1991.pdf#page=13|url-status=live}} Occupying the top position for nine weeks, the album broke the record for the longest consecutive weeks at number one by a female artist, a feat that would not be matched for 20 years until the release of Adele's album 21 (2011).{{cite web |url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/1990-11-24/ |title=1990-11-24 Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive |publisher=Official Charts Company |date=November 24, 1990 |access-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615175905/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/1990-11-24/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Tony Blackburn with the UK's Bestselling Albums|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fcncm|access-date=April 10, 2012|publisher=BBC Radio 2|date=April 9, 2012|archive-date=April 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411235327/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fcncm|url-status=live}} It became the seventh best-selling album of the decade with 2.5 million copies.{{Cite news|title=Top 10 selling albums of the 1990s in the UK.|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Top+10+selling+albums+of+the+1990s+in+the+UK.-a0106605635|newspaper=Evening Chronicle|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|date=August 16, 2003|access-date=July 26, 2011|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729022659/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Top+10+selling+albums+of+the+1990s+in+the+UK.-a0106605635|url-status=live}} The Immaculate Collection was certified thirteen-time platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It remains the best-selling solo compilation album in British music history, with sales of 3.77 million as of June 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/madonnas-official-biggest-selling-albums__26462/|title=Madonna's Official biggest selling albums|last=Myers|first=Justin|date=June 9, 2019|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=June 9, 2019|archive-date=June 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607101707/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/madonnas-official-biggest-selling-albums__26462/|url-status=live}}
In France, the album reached number four on the chart and was certified diamond by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP). The sales of the album stand at 1.1 million copies there. The Immaculate Collection peaked at number 10 in Germany and was certified triple gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI), denoting 750,000 units shipped. Across Europe, the album reached number one in Finland and Ireland, while peaking at number three on the pancontinental European Top 100 Albums chart.
Legacy
Nick C Levine from Dazed magazine stated that The Immaculate Collection cemented Madonna's iconic status and "distilled her early career into one era-defining pop single after another."{{cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39140/1/madonna-ray-of-light-20-anniversary|title=Revisiting Ray of Light, Madonna's most forward-thinking album, 20 years on|work=Dazed|date=February 22, 2018|access-date=September 4, 2022|first=Nick C|last=Levine|archive-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154710/https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39140/1/madonna-ray-of-light-20-anniversary|url-status=live}} According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, the album "captured the time when Madonna was the defining figure of American pop culture."{{cite news|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-my-prerogative-mw0002084596|title=Greatest Hits: My Prerogative [US Bonus CD]|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=August 13, 2016|date=April 17, 2010|archive-date=July 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711140411/http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-my-prerogative-mw0002084596|url-status=live}} Mike Wass from Idolator described the album as "a time capsule of the 1980s... [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."{{cite web |first=Mike |last=Wass |url=https://www.idolator.com/7915947/90s-flashback-madonnas-underrated-rescue-me?firefox=1 |title='90s Flashback: Madonna's Underrated "Rescue Me" |publisher=Idolator |date=2020-11-10 |access-date=2022-08-28 |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923071100/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fplugins%2Fpage.php%3Fadapt_container_width%3Dfalse%26app_id%26channel%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fstaticxx.facebook.com%252Fx%252Fconnect%252Fxd_arbiter%252F%253Fversion%253D46%2523cb%253Df346516046b5284%2526domain%253Dwww.idolator.com%2526is_canvas%253Dfalse%2526origin%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.idolator.com%25252Ff34e0eb6b3a1e54%2526relation%253Dparent.parent%26container_width%3D300%26hide_cover%3Dfalse%26hide_cta%3Dtrue%26href%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252Fidolatordotcom%252F%26locale%3Den_US%26sdk%3Djoey%26show_facepile%3Dtrue%26small_header%3Dfalse%26width%3D300 |url-status=live }} James Rose from Daily Review retrospectively described The Immaculate Collection as "a story of women and pop music in the decade leading to 1990... pop music history, in itself a living timeline of an era."{{cite web|url=https://dailyreview.com.au/25-years-since-madonnas-immaculate-collection/33938/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630080929/https://dailyreview.com.au/25-years-since-madonnas-immaculate-collection/33938/ | archive-date=June 30, 2018|title=25 Years Since – Madonna's Immaculate Collection|website=Daily Review|date=November 29, 2015|first=James|last=Rose}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/madonna-where-to-start-in-her-back-catalogue|title=Madonna: where to start in her back catalogue | Madonna|work=The Guardian|date=June 17, 2020|access-date=September 4, 2022|first=Lucy|last=O'Brien|author-link=Lucy O'Brien|archive-date=August 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816145219/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/madonna-where-to-start-in-her-back-catalogue|url-status=live}}
The album has been featured on a number of all-time lists by music critics. The New York Times dubbed The Immaculate Collection as one of the definitive album releases of the century.{{harvnb|Bego|2000|p=327}} Rockdelux also named it one of the greatest albums of the 20th century.{{cite web|url=https://jenesaispop.com/2019/07/04/366925/madonna-es-portada-de-rockdelux-y-estrena-el-documental-the-world-of-madame-x/|title=Madonna es portada de Rockdelux y estrena el documental 'The World of Madame X'|publisher=Jenesaispop|date=July 4, 2019|access-date=September 4, 2022|first=Sebas E.|last=Alonso|language=es|archive-date=December 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203222739/https://jenesaispop.com/2019/07/04/366925/madonna-es-portada-de-rockdelux-y-estrena-el-documental-the-world-of-madame-x/|url-status=live}} In 2003, the album was ranked number 278 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-immaculate-collection-madonna-19691231/|title=#278 The Immaculate Collection|access-date=June 18, 2013|date=November 1, 2003|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220150019/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-immaculate-collection-madonna-19691231|archive-date=December 20, 2010}} The latest update of the Rolling Stone list was published in September 2020, showing the album rising to number 138.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/madonna-the-immaculate-collection-2-1063095/| title= 500 Greatest Albums: The Immaculate Collection (2020 edition)|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=September 22, 2020| access-date=September 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206103143if_/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/madonna-the-immaculate-collection-2-1063095/|archive-date=February 6, 2021}} Blender magazine placed the album at number one on their "100 Greatest American Albums of All Time" list, explaining:{{cite web|url=http://blender.com/articles/issue5/100_greatest.html|title=100 Greatest American Albums of All Time|work=Blender|access-date=November 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020419222457/http://blender.com/articles/issue5/100_greatest.html|archive-date=April 19, 2002|url-status=live}}
Just as Bob Dylan's insurgent braininess embodied the boundary-stretching '60s, Madonna epitomized the '80s, from the coy consumerism of "Material Girl" to the stylish hedonism of "Vogue". She was a change-agent of Hollywood-blockbuster proportions, embodying womanhood's power while simultaneously upending musty notions of femininity... And, since this is above all expertly built, wonderfully sung music, the songcraft lets listeners ignore all of the above and just dance. [E]ach listen shows that Madonna's unerring musical instincts—let's go ahead and call it genius—were as formidable as her more famous ambition.
Other retrospective assessments specifically praised the album as a greatest hits collection. Drew Mackie of People, called the album "the best-named greatest hits compilation ever" and "easily one of the best greatest hits albums ever."{{cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/madonnas-immaculate-collection-turns-25-all-17-tracks-ranked/|title=VIDEO: Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection' Turns 25: All 17 Tracks Ranked|work=People|access-date=September 4, 2022|first=Drew|last=Mackie|date=October 5, 2016|archive-date=June 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623085107/https://people.com/celebrity/madonnas-immaculate-collection-turns-25-all-17-tracks-ranked/|url-status=live}} In 2022, it was included in the Rolling Stone Italia list of the 10 greatest hits albums that "made history".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/lepopea-dei-greatest-hits/654988|title=L'epopea dei greatest hits|access-date=September 16, 2022|date=August 9, 2022|magazine=Rolling Stone Italia|language=it|first=Lorenzo|last=Barbieri|archive-date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901174234/https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/lepopea-dei-greatest-hits/654988/|url-status=live}} NME ranked it as the second-best greatest hits album of all time, claiming that "In her pomp, Madonna was the best pop star of her time."{{cite web | url=https://www.nme.com/photos/greatest-best-of-albums-ever-2149067 | title=The 28 greatest Best of albums | work=NME | date=May 20, 2019 | access-date=September 4, 2022 | first=Jamie | last=Milton | archive-date=April 1, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401120444/https://www.nme.com/photos/greatest-best-of-albums-ever-2149067 | url-status=live }} Selena Dieringer from Houston Press listed The Immaculate Collection among the "ten really fantastic Greatest Hits albums".{{cite web|url=https://www.houstonpress.com/music/why-greatest-hits-albums-matter-and-10-greatest-hits-haikus-6508646|title=Why Greatest-Hits Albums Matter, and 10 Greatest-Hits Haikus|work=Houston Press|first=Selena|last=Dieringer|access-date=September 4, 2022|date=April 17, 2013|archive-date=August 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828154717/https://www.houstonpress.com/music/why-greatest-hits-albums-matter-and-10-greatest-hits-haikus-6508646|url-status=live}} Classic Pop named it the best compilation album of all time.{{cite web |url=https://www.classicpopmag.com/2022/09/top-20-compilation-albums/ |first=Barry |last=Page |access-date=May 23, 2023 |website=Classic Pop |title=Top 20 compilation albums |date=September 1, 2022 |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208041834/https://www.classicpopmag.com/2022/09/top-20-compilation-albums/ |url-status=live }} The Daily Telegraph ranked it as Madonna's best album, calling it "a phenomenal collection".{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/madonnas-15-albums-ranked-from-worst-to-best/immaculate-collection/|title=Madonna's 15 albums: from worst to best|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=August 16, 2016|access-date=September 4, 2022|archive-date=December 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218202734/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/madonnas-15-albums-ranked-from-worst-to-best/immaculate-collection/|url-status=live}} It was also included in Out{{'}}s The 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums of All Time, addressing the influence of records for the gay community, with staff calling it "the definitive document of her stratospherically successful first decade".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/03/19/100-greatest-gayest-albums-all-time|title=The 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums (of All Time)|magazine=Out|date=2012|access-date=September 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325121703/https://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/03/19/100-greatest-gayest-albums-all-time#slide-93|archive-date=March 25, 2012}} Queerty editors selected The Immaculate Collection among 20 most important albums to shape LGBTQ culture, calling it "a must for any gold star gay's record collection."{{cite web|url=https://www.queerty.com/20-albums-essential-shaping-lgbtq-culture-20220626|title=These 20 albums were essential in shaping LGBTQ culture|date=June 26, 2022|work=Queerty|access-date=September 9, 2022|archive-date=September 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906014510/https://www.queerty.com/20-albums-essential-shaping-lgbtq-culture-20220626|url-status=live}}
The Immaculate Collection also influenced the development of subsequent Madonna greatest hits albums. GHV2 (2001), an abbreviation of Greatest Hits Volume 2, was marketed as a follow-up to The Immaculate Collection, comprising Madonna's hits from 1992 to 2001.{{cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |date=October 4, 2001 |title=Madonna Bundles Recent Hits On 'GHV2' |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/78207/madonna-bundles-recent-hits-on-ghv2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505051416/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/78207/madonna-bundles-recent-hits-on-ghv2 |archive-date=May 5, 2016 |access-date=January 19, 2016 |magazine=Billboard}} The two-disc edition of Celebration (2009) includes every track from The Immaculate Collection, except "Rescue Me".{{Cite web |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |title=Madonna: Celebration |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13590-celebration/ |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Original album
| headline = The Immaculate Collection track listing
| total_length = 73:32
| title1 = Holiday
| writer1 = {{hlist|Curtis Hudson|Lisa Stevens}}
| extra1 = Madonna (1983)
| length1 = 4:06
| title2 = Lucky Star
| writer2 = Madonna
| extra2 = Madonna
| length2 = 3:38
| title3 = Borderline
| writer3 = Reggie Lucas
| extra3 = Madonna
| length3 = 4:00
| title4 = Like a Virgin
| writer4 = {{hlist|Billy Steinberg|Tom Kelly}}
| extra4 = Like a Virgin (1984)
| length4 = 3:11
| title5 = Material Girl
| writer5 = {{hlist|Peter Brown|Robert Rans}}
| extra5 = Like a Virgin
| length5 = 3:53
| title6 = Crazy for You
| writer6 = {{hlist|John Bettis|Jon Lind}}
| extra6 = Vision Quest (1985)
| length6 = 3:46
| title7 = Into the Groove
| writer7 = {{hlist|Madonna|Stephen Bray}}
| extra7 = Like a Virgin (1985 reissue)
| length7 = 4:10
| title8 = Live to Tell
| writer8 = {{hlist|Madonna|Patrick Leonard}}
| extra8 = True Blue (1986)
| length8 = 5:19
| title9 = Papa Don't Preach
| writer9 = {{hlist|Brian Elliot|Madonna{{ref|a|[a]}}}}
| extra9 = True Blue
| length9 = 4:09
| title10 = Open Your Heart
| writer10 = {{hlist|Madonna|Gardner Cole|Peter Rafelson}}
| extra10 = True Blue
| length10 = 3:51
| title11 = La Isla Bonita
| writer11 = {{hlist|Madonna|Leonard|Bruce Gaitsch}}
| extra11 = True Blue
| length11 = 3:48
| title12 = Like a Prayer
| writer12 = {{hlist|Madonna|Leonard}}
| extra12 = Like a Prayer (1989)
| length12 = 5:52
| title13 = Express Yourself
| writer13 = {{hlist|Madonna|Bray}}
| extra13 = Like a Prayer
| length13 = 4:04
| title14 = Cherish
| writer14 = {{hlist|Madonna|Leonard}}
| extra14 = Like a Prayer
| length14 = 3:53
| title15 = Vogue
| writer15 = {{hlist|Madonna|Shep Pettibone}}
| extra15 = I'm Breathless (1990)
| length15 = 5:19
| title16 = Justify My Love
| writer16 = {{hlist|Lenny Kravitz|Ingrid Chavez|Madonna{{ref|a|[a]}}}}
| extra16 = Previously unreleased
| length16 = 5:01
| title17 = Rescue Me
| writer17 = {{hlist|Madonna|Pettibone}}
| extra17 = Previously unreleased
| length17 = 5:32
}}
Notes
- Digital and Dolby Atmos releases of the album use the "New Mix" version of "Lucky Star" (7:15), and the album version of "Borderline" (5:17).{{cite web |title=The Immaculate Collection by Madonna |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-immaculate-collection/80812428 |access-date=16 July 2023 |date=9 November 1990 |archive-date=July 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716102007/https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-immaculate-collection/80812428 |url-status=live }}
- {{note|a|a}} signifies additional lyrics by
Personnel
Personnel credits adapted from the liner notes of The Immaculate Collection.{{cite AV media notes|others=Madonna|title=The Immaculate Collection|year=1990|type=Liner notes|publisher=Warner Bros. Records|id=9 26440-1}}
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- Madonna – vocals, background vocals
- Lenny Kravitz – background vocals
- Dian Sorel – background vocals
- Catherine Russell – background vocals
- Lillias White – background vocals
- Henry Hirsch – recording
- David Domanich – recording
- Andy Cardenas – recording
- Josh Cuervokas – recording
- P. Dennis Mitchell – recording engineer
- Curt Frasca – assistant engineer
- Lolly Grodner – assistant engineer
- John Partham – assistant engineer
- Peter Schwartz – keyboards, programming
- Joe Moskowitz – additional programming
- Rob Mounsey – arranger
- Shep Pettibone – mixing, album coordinator
- Goh Hotoda – mixing
- Michael Hutchinson – mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Jane Brinton – album coordinator
- Freddy DeMann – management
- Herb Ritts – photography
- Jeri Heiden – art direction, design
- John Heiden – design
- Andre Guedes – digital booklet
- Gene Sculatti – liner notes
- Mike Dean – mixing (2023 Dolby Atmos mix)
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Charts
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= Weekly charts =
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= Monthly charts =
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|+Monthly chart peaks of The Immaculate Collection ! Chart (2008) ! Peak |
| scope="row"|Argentine Albums (CAPIF){{cite web|url=http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?CodOp=ESCM&CO=6|title=Ranking Venta Mayorista de Discos – Mensual Marzo|date=March 2008|publisher=Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers|access-date=April 20, 2021|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414204948/http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?CodOp=ESCM&CO=6|language=es|archive-date=April 14, 2008|df=mdy-all}}
| 9 |
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= Year-end charts =
= Decade-end charts =
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+Decade-end charts of The Immaculate Collection ! Chart (1990–1999) ! Peak |
| scope="row"|UK Albums (OCC){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1999/Music-Week-1999-12-18.pdf|title=Top 20 Albums of the Nineties|date=December 18, 1999|magazine=Music Week|access-date=November 8, 2022|page=28|archive-date=January 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131121618/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1999/Music-Week-1999-12-18.pdf|url-status=live}}
| 7 |
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Certifications and sales
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Argentina|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|type=album|award=Platinum|number=6|relyear=1990|certref={{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214144253/http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?PerDesde_MM=10&PerDesde_AA=2000&PerHasta_MM=10&PerHasta_AA=2007&interprete=madonna&album=&LanDesde_MM=0&LanDesde_AA=0&LanHasta_MM=0&LanHasta_AA=0&Galardon=O&Tipo=1&ACCION2=+Buscar+&ACCION=Buscar&CO=5&CODOP=ESOP|archive-date=February 14, 2008|url=http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?PerDesde_MM=10&PerDesde_AA=2000&PerHasta_MM=10&PerHasta_AA=2007&interprete=madonna&album=&LanDesde_MM=0&LanDesde_AA=0&LanHasta_MM=0&LanHasta_AA=0&Galardon=O&Tipo=1&ACCION2=+Buscar+&ACCION=Buscar&CO=5&CODOP=ESOP|title=Argentinian album certifications – Madonna – The Immaculate Collection|publisher=Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas|access-date=September 9, 2022|language=es}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=12|relyear=1990|certyear=2002|refname="ariacat"|access-date=September 12, 2022|salesref={{efn|Australian sales as of January 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/blogs/the-tribal-mind/the-tribal-mind-archive-the-music-australia-loved-20130110-2cilw.html|title=The Music Australia Loved|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=January 1, 2013|access-date=September 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112160723/http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/blogs/the-tribal-mind/the-tribal-mind-archive-the-music-australia-loved-20130110-2cilw.html|archive-date=January 12, 2014}}|salesamount=880,000|access-date=September 12, 2022}}|salesamount=880,000}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Austria|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|relyear=1990|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=2|access-date=April 19, 2012|relyear=1990|certyear=1998|refname="pmb"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=7|relyear=1990|access-date=September 9, 2022|refname="mc"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|relyear=1990|certyear=2006|id=35|source=chart|access-date=April 19, 2012|refname="denmark"}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Finland|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|relyear=1990|salesamount=92,500|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=France|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Diamond|certyear=2005|refname="snep"|source=InfoDisc|access-date=September 9, 2022|salesref={{efn|French sales as of March 2012.{{cite news |title=Madonna : une carrière en 12 chiffres |url=http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Madonna/news-78797.html |access-date=January 11, 2022 |publisher=Charts in France|date=March 26, 2012|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328214733/http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Madonna/news-78797.html|archive-date=March 28, 2012|first=Charles|last=Decant}}}}|salesamount=1,100,000}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Gold|number=3|relyear=1990|refname="bvmi"|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Hong Kong|nocert=true|salesamount=20,000|salesref={{efn|Hong Konger sales as of November 1990.{{cite news|title=Marketing the Making of Madonna|newspaper=South China Morning Post|page=12|date=November 19, 1990|url=https://www.proquest.com/previewunavailable/1540899842/Record/A6510292258A4AB3PQ/1|first=Anne|last=Parton|url-access=subscription|via=ProQuest|access-date=September 9, 2022|quote=and yet in HongKong, this compilation has gone platinum (20,000 copies sold)|archive-date=December 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229213343/https://www.proquest.com/previewunavailable/1540899842/Record/A6510292258A4AB3PQ/1|url-status=live}}}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Israel|nocert=true|salesamount=50,000|salesref={{efn|Israeli sales as of August 2001.{{cite magazine|url=https://i.imgur.com/zoKvD18.jpg|language=he|title=אלבומים ומכירות בארץ|trans-title=Albums and sales in Israel|magazine=LaIsha|page=56|date=August 13, 2001|access-date=August 10, 2023|archive-date=August 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810230509/https://i.imgur.com/zoKvD18.jpg|url-status=live}}}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|award=Platinum|number=5|salesamount=500,000|salesref={{efn|Italian sales as of 2001.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/Piccolo_20011113/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22Immaculate+Collection%22|title=Madonna: come si celebra un' icona|newspaper=Il Piccolo|date=November 13, 2001|access-date=October 7, 2024|page=32|language=it}}}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Japan|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=4|relyear=1990|certyear=1998|certmonth=2|certref={{cite web|url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/issue/record/1998/199804.pdf|title=Japanese album certifications – Madonna – The Immaculate Collection|publisher=Recording Industry Association of Japan|access-date=September 23, 2013|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927200728/http://www.riaj.or.jp/issue/record/1998/199804.pdf|url-status=live}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Mexico|nocert=true|salesamount=800,000|salesref={{efn|Mexican sales as of November 2001.{{cite news|title=Lanza Madonna nuevos hits|newspaper=Reforma|language=es|date=November 17, 2001|access-date=September 9, 2022|page=4|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/310755398|first=Juan Carlos|last=Garcia|id={{ProQuest|310755398}}|url-access=subscription|via=ProQuest|quote=Tras vender mas de 800 mil copias de su primera compilacion de hits en Mexico, The Immaculate Collection, la cual salio en 1990, Madonna estrena desde esta semana GHV2, su nueva seleccion de temas mas exitosos de la ultima decada|archive-date=September 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923071059/https://www.proquest.com/docview/310755398|url-status=live}}}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Netherlands|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=1990|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=7|relyear=1990|source=archive|certyear=2009|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Singapore|nocert=true|salesamount=103,000|salesref={{efn|Singaporean sales as of 1994.{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/315697894|title=By Sally D. Goll|newspaper=Asian Wall Street Journal|page=8|date=December 30, 1994|access-date=March 1, 2024|quote=The singer's last hit record in Singapore was "The Immaculate Collection," which was released in 1990 and has sold about 103,000 copies|via=ProQuest|id={{ProQuest|315697894}}|archive-date=July 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717044158/https://www.proquest.com/docview/315697894|url-status=live}}}}}}
{{Certification Table Entry | region=South Africa| title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna| award=Platinum | type=album | relyear=2001 | relmonth=01 | certyear=2001 | certref={{cite web|url=http://www.mi2n.com/print.php3?id=32544|title=Mi2N: Music Divas & Rock Bands Top South African Certifications|work=Music Industry News Network|date=May 2, 2002|access-date=August 9, 2015|archive-date=February 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212042159/http://www.mi2n.com/print.php3?id=32544|url-status=dead}} | access-date=December 16, 2015}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=3|certyear=2004|certmonth=10|relyear=1990|access-date=September 9, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Sweden|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Gold|relyear=1990|certyear=1992|access-date=September 9, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|relyear=1990|access-date=September 9, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=13|relyear=2022|id=7038-2003-2|refname="bpi"|access-date=August 12, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=The Immaculate Collection|artist=Madonna|award=Platinum|number=11|relyear=1990|certyear=2023|access-date=May 5, 2023|refname="riaa"}}
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See also
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- List of best-selling albums in Argentina
- List of best-selling albums in Australia
- List of best-selling albums in Brazil
- List of best-selling albums in France
- List of best-selling albums in Mexico
- List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom
- List of best-selling albums in the United States
- List of Canadian number-one albums of 1991
- List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1990s
- List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1990s
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Notes
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References
= Citations =
{{reflist}}
= Bibliography =
{{refbegin}}
- {{Cite book|last=Bego|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Bego|title=Madonna: Blonde Ambition|publisher=Cooper Square Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-8154-1051-5}}
- {{cite book|last1=Fouz-Hernández|first1=Santiago|last2=Jarman-Ivens|first2=Freya|title=Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations, 1983–2003|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7546-3372-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2006|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Muze|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|edition=4th}}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/virginencycloped0000unse_w9d5/page/246|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music|publisher=Virgin Books|first=Colin|last=Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|access-date=August 27, 2022|date=2000|via=Archive.org|isbn=978-0-7535-0427-7}}
- {{cite book|last=McAleer|first=Dave|author-link=Dave McAleer|title=The Omnibus Book of British and American Hit Singles, 1960–1990|year=1990|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-7119-2180-1}}
- {{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Lucy|author-link=Lucy O'Brien|title=Madonna: Like an Icon|publisher=Corgi Publishers|year=2008|isbn=978-0-552-15361-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Sickels|first=Robert C.|year=2013|title=100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-831-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Rooksby|first=Rikky|title=Madonna: The Complete Guide to Her Music|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-7119-9883-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Taraborrelli|first=J. Randy|author-link=J. Randy Taraborrelli|title=Madonna: An Intimate Biography|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2001|isbn=978-0-330-45446-9}}
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External links
- {{Discogs master|65483|The Immaculate Collection|type=album}}
- {{YouTube|p=OLAK5uy_nRSrSCRydhu-EFXILq8jHOGOG0Ig5tuAc|The Immaculate Collection}}
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