Will Hermes of Rolling Stone stated, 'Few singers have the consistency of vision to produce a career retrospective that doubles as a seamless 'let's make out on the carpet' mixtape. In March 2014, the album was re-released as The Essential Sade under the Sony Legacy umbrella. The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in 10 years, Sade Live. 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 album includes several singles from the band's career, including ' Your Love Is King', ' Smooth Operator', ' By Your Side', ' No Ordinary Love' and ' Soldier of Love'. The band were ranked at #50 on VH1's list of the '100 greatest artists of all time.The Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by English band Sade, released on 29 April 2011 by RCA Records. Sade's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA have sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date.

Their 2000 fifth studio album, Lovers Rock, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. It was certified double platinum in the UK, and quadruple platinum in the US. In late 1985, Sade released their second studio album Promise, which peaked at No. Sade's 1984 debut studio album Diamond Life, was a hit internationally, reaching # 1 in several countries and the Top Ten in the US where it has sold in excess of 4 million copies. Their music features elements of soul, R&B, jazz, soft rock, and funk. However, three of their members were originally from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

It was originally released in November 1994. The Best of Sade is the first greatest hits album by vocalist Sade Adu and her band.

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