Love Deluxe

Love Deluxe
Studio album by Sade
Released	26 October 1992 (U.S.) 1 November 1992 (U.K.)
Recorded	Studio Condulmer (Venice) Ridge Farm (Surrey, England) The Hit Factory (London) Image Recording (Los Angeles)
Genre	Ambient[1] cool jazz[2]
Length	45:07
Label	Epic
Producer	Mike Pela Sade
Sade chronology
Stronger Than Pride (1988) Love Deluxe (1992) The Best of Sade (1994)
Singles from Love Deluxe
"No Ordinary Love" Released: 8 October 1992 "Feel No Pain" Released: 28 November 1992 "Kiss of Life" Released: 12 April 1993 "Cherish the Day" Released: 31 July 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B[1]
NME	7/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]
The Village Voice	B−[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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"No Ordinary Love"	Sade Adu Stuart Matthewman	7:20
2.	"Feel No Pain"	Adu Andrew Hale Matthewman	5:08
3.	"I Couldn't Love You More"	Adu Hale Matthewman Paul S. Denman	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

• Sade – arrangement, production
• Sade Adu – vocals
• Andrew Hale – keyboards
• Stuart Matthewman – guitar, saxophone
• Paul S. Denman – bass

Additional personnel

Peter Brawne – design Tom Coyne – remastering Martin Ditcham – drums ("Kiss of Life"); percussion ("No Ordinary Love", "Kiss of Life") Sandro Franchin – assistant engineering Nick Ingman – string arrangements ("Kiss of Life", "Pearls") Chris Lord-Alge – engineering, mixing ("Mermaid") Stephen Marcussen – mastering

Adrian Moore – assistant engineering Leroy Osbourne – vocals Mike Pela – co-production, engineering Tony Pleeth – solo cello ("Pearls") Albert Watson – photography Marc Williams – assistant engineering Gavyn Wright – orchestra leader

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1992–93) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[17] 13 Austrian Albums Chart[18] 11 Canadian Albums Chart[19] 16 Dutch Albums Chart[20] 10 French Albums Chart[21] 1 German Albums Chart[22] 14 Hungarian Albums Chart[23] 38 Italian Albums Chart[24] 2 Japanese Albums Chart[25] 10 New Zealand Albums Chart[26] 5 Spanish Albums Chart[27] 6 Swedish Albums Chart[28] 7 Swiss Albums Chart[29] 6 UK Albums Chart[30] 10 US Billboard 200[6] 3 US Top R&B Albums[6] 2

Year-end charts Chart (1992) Peak position Italian Albums Chart[24] 15 Chart (1993) Peak position US Billboard 200[31] 12 US Top R&B Albums[32] 3 Chart (1994) Peak position US Top R&B Albums[33] 51

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
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 ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

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