Something to Remember
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| Compilation album by Madonna | |||||||||||
| Released | November 7, 1995 November 10, 1995 (JA) |
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| Recorded | 1984 - 1995 | ||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, Ballads | ||||||||||
| Length | 71:08 75:28 (Latin American edition) |
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| Label | Maverick, Warner Bros. | ||||||||||
| Producer | Nellee Hooper, Madonna, Patrick Leonard, Babyface, David Foster, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Shep Pettibone, Nile Rodgers | ||||||||||
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Something to Remember is the third compilation album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on November 7, 1995 by Maverick Records. It contains a collection of her greatest ballad hits with three new songs: "I Want You," "You'll See," and "One More Chance." It also contains a new remix of the 1984 Like A Virgin album track and Japanese single "Love Don't Live Here Anymore." The RIAA certified it Gold and Platinum on January 18, 1996 and 3x Platinum on October 3, 2000, denoting 3 million shipments in the United States. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 8 million units. [1].[2]
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[edit] Album history
Something to Remember is a collection of ballads, including songs from movie soundtracks, tracks which had not previously appeared on a Madonna album, as well as new recordings.
Madonna worked again with producer Nellee Hooper on the song "I Want You" (which was recorded together with Bristol-based trip-hoppers Massive Attack). The song is a cover version of the classic Marvin Gaye song, and was first released on a various artists sampler, Inner City Blues. "I Want You" was slated to be released as a single-- a video was even shot for it, and remixes were commissioned-- however, plans for its release were eventually canceled.
"You'll See" (released as the first single), and "One More Chance" (released as a single in Europe and Australia), were the album's other new songs, which were written and produced by Madonna and David Foster. Other singles from the album were a remix of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (only released in the U.S. and Australia) and "Oh Father" (exclusively for the UK). The video of "You'll See" was a sequel to the video for the previous album's "Take a Bow."
The Japanese version of the album contained "La Isla Bonita" as a bonus track, while the bonus track on the Latin American and Spanish version was "Verás," the Spanish version of "You'll See."
The cover photograph was part of an advertising campaign Madonna did for Versace in 1995. The album has sold more than 9 million units worldwide.
The first edition of the US album had no back cover. It had the bar code printed on the disc, which was white. The second edition of the US album had a photo of Madonna on a bed from the Versace shoot (in the same pose as the promo poster titled Multi-Platinum Blonde). The versions outside of the US, particularly Asia-pacific, had a photograph of a magnolia flower on the back cover. Later, the second edition US back cover was used outside of the US as well.
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | from the album | Composers | Production credits | Time |
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| 1. | "I Want You" (with Massive Attack) | Previously Unreleased | Leon Ware, Arthur Ross | Nellee Hooper | 6:23 |
| 2. | "I'll Remember" 1 | With Honors (Soundtrack) | Patrick Leonard, Madonna, Richard Page | Madonna and Patrick Leonard | 4:23 |
| 3. | "Take a Bow" | Bedtime Stories | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Madonna | Babyface and Madonna | 5:21 |
| 4. | "You'll See" | Previously Unreleased | Madonna, David Foster | Madonna and David Foster Arranged by Madonna and David Foster Engineered and Mixed by David Reitzas |
4:41 |
| 5. | "Crazy for You" 1 2 | Vision Quest (Soundtrack) | John Bettis, Jon Lind | John "Jellybean" Benitez Arranged by Rob Mounsey |
4:05 |
| 6. | "This Used to Be My Playground" 1 | Barcelona Gold (compilation) | Madonna, Shep Pettibone | Madonna and Shep Pettibone | 5:10 |
| 7. | "Live to Tell" | True Blue | Madonna, Patrick Leonard | Madonna and Patrick Leonard | 5:52 |
| 8. | "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Remix) | Like a Virgin | Miles Gregory | Niles Rodgers Remix Produced, Engineered and Mixed by David Reitzas |
4:54 |
| 9. | "Something to Remember" | I'm Breathless | Madonna, Patrick Leonard | Madonna and Patrick Leonard | 5:04 |
| 10. | "Forbidden Love" | Bedtime Stories | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Madonna contains a sample of "Down Here on the Ground" performed by Grant Green |
Nellee Hooper and Madonna | 4:09 |
| 11. | "One More Chance" | Previously Unreleased | Madonna, David Foster | Madonna and David Foster Engineered and Mixed by David Reitzas |
4:28 |
| 12. | "Rain" | Erotica | Madonna, Shep Pettibone | Madonna and Shep Pettibone | 5:29 |
| 13. | "Oh Father" | Like a Prayer | Madonna, Patrick Leonard | Madonna and Patrick Leonard | 4:59 |
| 14. | "I Want You" (Orchestral) (with Massive Attack) | Previously Unreleased | Leon Ware, Arthur Ross | Nellee Hooper | 6:04 |
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| 15. | "La Isla Bonita" | True Blue | Madonna, Patrick Leonard, Bruce Gaitsch | Madonna and Patrick Leonard | 4:02 |
| Latin America bonus track | |||||
| 16. | "Verás" | Previously Unreleased | Madonna, David Foster, Spanish lyrics: Paz Martinez | Madonna and David Foster Arranged by Madonna and David Foster Engineered and Mixed by David Reitzas |
4:21 |
1 previously unavailable on a Madonna album.
2 "Crazy For You" was previously available on The Immaculate Collection in a 1990 QSound Mix version, but on Something to Remember it is the original album version, previously unavailable on a Madonna album.
[edit] Singles
| # | Title | Date |
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| 1. | "I Want You" | October 1995 (Promo video only) |
| 2. | "You'll See" | November 21, 1995 |
| 3. | "Oh Father" | December 25, 1995 (UK) |
| 4. | "One More Chance" | March 7, 1996 (UK & Australia) |
| 5. | "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Remix) | March 19, 1996 (North America/Australia & France) |
[edit] Certifications, peaks & sales
| Country | Peak Position | Certification (If Any) | Sales/shipments |
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| Australia | 1 | 4x Platinum[3] | 280,000+ |
| Austria | 1 | Platinum[4] | 20,000+ |
| Brazil | Gold[5] | 100,000+ | |
| Canada | 2x Platinum[6] | 200,000+ | |
| Finland | 1 | 2x Platinum[7] | 93,043+ |
| France | 3 | 2x Gold | 200,000+ |
| Germany | 2 | Platinum[8] | 300,000+ |
| Netherlands | 19 | Platinum[9] | 100,000+ |
| New Zealand | 8 | ||
| Norway | 6 | ||
| Poland | Gold[10] | 20,000+ | |
| Sweden | 3 | Platinum[11] | 100,000+ |
| Switzerland | 3 | Platinum[12] | 50,000+ |
| United Kingdom | 3x Platinum[13] | 900,000+ | |
| United States | 6 | 3x Platinum[14] | 2,100,000+[14] |
[edit] References
- ^ AbsoluteMadonna.com - Album Charts & Stats
- ^ Madonna- Latest Madonna music, charts, awards, CDs, Confessions on a dancefloor, Madonna, American Life, Erotica, sales figures
- ^ ARIA
- ^ IFPI Austria
- ^ ABPD
- ^ CRIA
- ^ IFPI Finland
- ^ IFPI Germany
- ^ NVPI
- ^ ZPAV
- ^ IFPI Sweden - Hitlistan Top 60
- ^ IFPI Switzerland
- ^ BPI
- ^ a b Billboard – Ask Billboard
- "Chart Performance of Madonna Records - A Compiled History". MoCaW: Chart History. link - last accessed December 24, 2005.
- "Madonna Tribe News: PierPinto's Charts Updates". Madonna Tribe. link - last accessed December 24, 2005.
- "Madonna.cz - Something to Remember". Madonna.cz. link - last accessed December 30, 2006.
- "Something to Remember". Mad-Eyes. link - last accessed on August 9, 2007.
| Preceded by Don't Ask by Tina Arena |
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album November 26 - December 2, 1995 |
Succeeded by Anthology 1 by The Beatles |
