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Revision as of 21:11, 19 May 2016

This article is about the Sade album. For the British group, see Love De-Luxe.

Untitled
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[1]
NME7/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
The Village VoiceB−[5]

Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade. It was released in the United States on 26 October 1992 and in the United Kingdom on 1 November 1992 by Epic Records.

Commercial performance

The album peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200[6] and has sold 3.4 million copies in the United States.[7] The album was later certified four times platinum by the RIAA for shipments of four million copies.[8] The album was also commercially successful else where reaching number one in France,[9] and reaching the top ten in New Zealand,[10] Sweden,[11] Switzerland[12] and the UK.[13] The album went on to be certified Gold in the United Kingdom.

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau felt that half of the album cannot qualify with Sade's most memorable songs and particularly panned the lyric about a Somalian woman who "hurts like brand-new shoes" on the song "Pearls".[5] Amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "surges with emotion, but the mostly lush ambient music on Love Deluxe is low on the oomph meter."[1] In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Ron Wynn wrote that it "marked a return to the detached cool jazz backing and even icier vocals that made her debut album a sensation" with an "urbane sound."[2]

Aftermath

Following the release of Love Deluxe the band would embark on a seven-year hiatus, during this time she came under media scrutiny with rumors of depression and addiction and later went on to give birth to her first child.[14] During this time the other members of the band Matthewman, Denman, and Hale went on to other projects, including the low-key Sweetback, which released a self-titled album in 1996. Matthewman also played a major role in the development of Maxwell's career, providing instrumentation and production work for the R&B singer's first two albums.[15]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."No Ordinary Love"
7:20
2."Feel No Pain"
  • Adu
  • Andrew Hale
  • Matthewman
5:08
3."I Couldn't Love You More"
3:49
4."Like a Tattoo"
  • Adu
  • Hale
  • Matthewman
3:38
5."Kiss of Life"
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Hale
  • Denman
5:50
6."Cherish the Day"
  • Adu
  • Hale
  • Matthewman
5:34
7."Pearls"
  • Adu
  • Hale
4:34
8."Bullet Proof Soul"
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Hale
5:26
9."Mermaid"
  • Hale
  • Adu
  • Matthewman
  • Denman
4:23

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Love Deluxe.[16]

Sade
Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[34] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[35] Platinum 100,000^
France (SNEP)[36] Platinum 578,500[36]
Germany (BVMI)[37] Gold 250,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[38] Gold 50,000^
Sweden (GLF)[39] Gold 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[40] Gold 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[41] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[42] 4× Platinum 4,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  2. ^ a b c Wynn, Ron. "Love Deluxe – Sade". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Sade – Love Deluxe CD". CD Universe. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  4. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 712. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (23 November 1993). "Turkey Shoot". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b c "Love Deluxe – Sade | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  7. ^ Caulfield, Keith (7 May 2003). "Ask Billboard: Keith Caulfield Answers Readers' Questions about Shania Twain, Mya, and Sade". Billboard. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  8. ^ "RIAA's Gold & Platinum Program > Love Deluxe". Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Les Albums (CD) de 1992 par InfoDisc" (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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  13. ^ "1992 Top 40 Official Albums Chart UK Archive". Official Charts Company. 7 November 1992. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  14. ^ Eshun, Ekow (Winter 2000). "Sade's Complex Relationship With Fame Can Still Teach Us Something, 15 Years Later". The Fader. No. 6. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  15. ^ "iTunes Preview - Sade - Biography". iTunes. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  16. ^ Love Deluxe (CD liner notes). Sade. Epic Records. 1992. 472626 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  27. ^ "Hits of the World". Billboard. 104 (48): 61. 28 November 1992. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
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  31. ^ "Sade – Chart history: Billboard 200 Albums (Year end)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  32. ^ "R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – 1993". Billboard.biz. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  33. ^ "Sade – Chart history: R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Year end)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  34. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2011 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  35. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Sade – Love Deluxe". Music Canada. 18 March 1993. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  36. ^ a b "Les Albums Platine" (in French). InfoDisc. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  37. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Sade; 'Love Deluxe')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
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  41. ^ id MUST BE PROVIDED for UK CERTIFICATION.
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