The Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by English soul band Sade, released on 29 April 2011 by RCA Records and Epic Records. The album includes several singles from the band's career, including the hit singles "Your Love Is King", "Smooth Operator", "By Your Side", "No Ordinary Love" and "Soldier of Love". It also contains four previously unreleased tracks—a cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 song "Still in Love with You", a remix of "The Moon and the Sky" featuring Jay-Z, and the songs "I Would Have Never Guessed" and "Love Is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live. The Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by English soul band Sade, released on 29 April 2011 by RCA Records and Epic Records. The album includes several singles from the band's career, including the hit singles "Your Love Is King", "Smooth Operator", "By Your Side", "No Ordinary Love" and "Soldier of Love". It also contains four previously unreleased tracks—a cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 song "Still in Love with You", a remix of "The Moon and the Sky" featuring Jay-Z, and the songs "I Would Have Never Guessed" and "Love Is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live. false 2025-11-08 04:38:28 The Ultimate Collection 2013 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 125 Pop Pop Soul Quiet Storm R&B Rock Sophisti-Pop Soul 111362 2243912 460728ba-a031-4644-abb7-4ad5500fe399 67930b3e-e00b-469f-8c74-fd69f20522ec 1fd557e5-433d-4f3b-af09-190786c3a410 /media/data/media5/Music/Sade/The Ultimate Collection/folder.jpg Sade Sade 1 1 Your Love Is King 03:42 1 2 Smooth Operator 04:18 1 3 Hang on to Your Love 04:31 1 4 The Sweetest Taboo 04:27 1 5 Is It a Crime 06:21 1 6 Never as Good as the First Time 03:58 1 7 Jezebel 05:26 1 8 Love Is Stronger Than Pride 04:19 1 9 Paradise 03:37 1 10 Nothing Can Come Between Us 03:53 1 11 No Ordinary Love 07:20 1 12 Kiss of Life 04:13 1 13 Feel No Pain 05:11 1 14 Bullet Proof Soul 05:25 2 1 Cherish the Day 06:19 2 2 Pearls 04:34 2 3 By Your Side 04:40 2 4 Immigrant 03:49 2 5 Flow 04:34 2 6 King of Sorrow 04:47 2 7 The Sweetest Gift 02:20 2 8 Soldier of Love 05:58 2 9 The Moon and the Sky 04:29 2 10 Babyfather 04:40 2 11 Still in Love With You 04:26 2 12 Skin 04:10 2 13 I Would Never Have Guessed 02:57 Sade ( SHAH-day) are an English band, formed in London in 1982 and named after their lead singer, Sade Adu. Three members, Paul Anthony Cooke, Stuart Mathewman, and Paul Spencer Denman, are from Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Its music features elements of soul, quiet storm, smooth jazz and sophisti-pop. All of the band's albums, including compilations and a live album, have charted in the US Top Ten. The band's debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984), reached number two on the UK Album Chart, selling over 1.2 million copies and won the Brit Award for Best British Album in 1985. The album was also a hit internationally, reaching number one in several countries and the top ten in the United States, where it has sold four million copies to date. In late 1985, the band released its second studio effort Promise, which peaked at number one in both the United Kingdom and the US. It was certified double platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Their fifth studio album, Lovers Rock (2000), won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Their sixth studio album, Soldier of Love (2010), peaked at number four in the UK and number one in the US. In 2011, the band won its fourth Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Sade's US certified sales in 2012 stood at 23.5 million units according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and by 2014 sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date. The band were ranked at No. 50 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".