The latest update of the Rolling Stone list was published in September 2020, showing the album rising to number 138. The John "Jellybean" Benitez production credit on track A3 is only listed on the label, not on the sleeves. Jim Farber of the same magazine stated: "More than a mere greatest-hits set, it's hands down the catchiest collection of '80s singles. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. 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.

The Immaculate Collection is the first of Madonna's greatest hits albums, covering all of her classics released between 1982 and 1990, and also featuring two new tracks for the time, which were Justify My Love and Rescue Me. 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. This June, Rhino Records are reissuing some of the best compilations from the biggest artists on vinyl. The second new song, "Rescue Me", is a dance-pop and gospel- house track written and produced by Madonna and Pettibone.Somebody worked really hard on this one—not only a beautiful presentation of this brilliant collection on colour vinyl, but a really gorgeous, careful mastering (they fixed all the sibilance heard on other cuts). James Rose from Daily Review retrospectively described The Immaculate Collection as "a story of women and pop music in the decade leading to 1990. The black-and-white music video caused controversy for its sexually explicit imagery and was banned by MTV. In rare instances, light background ‘cackle’ can sometimes be heard although there is no reason why this should necessarily be the case. Meno brillante il risultato di "I'm Breathless", uscito l'anno scorso: il disco legato all'esperienza cinematografica di "Dick Tracy" oggi in Italia e attestato attorno alle 300 mila copie.

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. 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. In 2022, it was included in the Rolling Stone Italia list of the 10 greatest hits albums that "made history". El álbum con el que Madonna resumió su primera década y con el que cerró con broche de oro los años 80 innovando con la tecnología de audio tridimensional Q-Sound, ahora en una réplica del LP doble que fue lanzado originalmente en 1990. 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.Madonna‘s first greatest hits set, 1990’s The Immaculate Collection will be reissued on double vinyl in June. 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. 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".

Aunque se trata de un sólo disco, incluye las dos fundas interiores de aquel entonces, además de un booklet en japonés.In Madonna's home country, the album entered the Billboard 200 chart at number 32 on the week of December 1, 1990. It contains fifteen of her hit singles recorded throughout the 1980s, as well as two brand new tracks, " Justify My Love" and " Rescue Me". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

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). Well, actually some of the songs we changed up a bit, but most of the songs we kept in their original form. And, since this is above all expertly built, wonderfully sung music, the songcraft lets listeners ignore all of the above and just dance. The album's title is a pun on the Immaculate Conception, a conception of the Virgin Mary without the stain of original sin.

Prior to its release as a single, "Rescue Me" started receiving airplay in the radios as an album cut.