AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album "remains a necessary purchase, because it captures everything Madonna is about and it proves that she was one of the finest singles artists of the '80s. I love the mixes of Express Yourself,Like A Prayer,Holiday,Into The Groove,La Isla Bonita,Open Your Heart and Vogue still all remain classic pop songs Justify My Love and Rescue me really show the way her next album was going to be like (Erotica)! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It has been featured on all-time critic lists by several publications, including Blender which named it the greatest American album of all time. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

Across Europe, the album reached number one in Finland and Ireland, while peaking at number three on the pancontinental European Top 100 Albums chart. James Rose from Daily Review retrospectively described The Immaculate Collection as "a story of women and pop music in the decade leading to 1990.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. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.

Madonna became the first female artist to achieve four number-one albums and the first female to have a Christmas number-one album in the United Kingdom. The New York Times dubbed The Immaculate Collection as one of the definitive album releases of the century. Writing for Stereogum, Tom Breihan commented the compilation "is even more impressive when you think about what didn't make it onto the album. David Browne from Entertainment Weekly opined that the album was "as relentless as the woman herself", and "refocuses our attention on how brilliant her records have been over the years—and gives us a peek into the obstacles she might face as her career enters the '90s.Prior to its release as a single, "Rescue Me" started receiving airplay in the radios as an album cut. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. In The Everything Mary Book (2006), editors explained "the album's colors of blue and gold resonate with some of the colors used in the traditional images of Virgin Mary". The second single, "Rescue Me", had the highest debut on the chart since the Beatles' " Let It Be" (1970) and peaked at number nine.