| Product Summary | | Label: Warner/reprise/maverick | | UPC: 00093624992745 | | Release Date: 9/29/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211971801 | | Item#: M4R7C3 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Hung Up ~ Madonna |  | | 2. Music ~ Madonna | | | 3. Vogue ~ Madonna | | | 4. 4 Minutes - (featuring Justin Timberlake/Timbaland) ~ Madonna | | | 5. Holiday ~ Madonna | | | 6. Like a Virgin ~ Madonna | | | 7. Into the Groove ~ Madonna | | | 8. Like a Prayer ~ Madonna | | | 9. Ray of Light ~ Madonna | | | 10. La Isla Bonita ~ Madonna | | | 11. Frozen ~ Madonna | | | 12. Material Girl ~ Madonna | | | 13. Papa Don't Preach ~ Madonna | | | 14. Lucky Star ~ Madonna | | | 15. Express Yourself ~ Madonna | | | 16. Open Your Heart ~ Madonna | | | 17. Dress You Up ~ Madonna | | | 18. Celebration ~ Madonna | |
| Track Listing
1. Hung Up
2. Music
3. Vogue
4. 4 Minutes
5. Holiday
6. Everybody
7. Like A Virgin
8. Into The Groove
9. Like A Prayer
10. Ray Of Light
11. Sorry
12. Express Yourself
13. Open Your Heart
14. Borderline
15. Secret
16. Erotica
17. Justify My Love
18. Revolver
"Superfans may well die happy with this much concentrated Madge-estry: 36 tracks covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career." Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"It's a dizzying, nonchronological spin through the Madonna years, years it makes you feel lucky to be living through." Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone Magazine
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Photographers: Jean Baptiste Mondino; Herb Ritts; Wayne Maser. | | CELEBRATION, Madonna's fourth major hits collection, has the Herculean task of summing up 30 years of chart-topping pop music by one of the true visionary artists of the era. The 18 songs are tilted toward her good-time dancefloor classics, both from her early days ("Holiday," "Into the Groove") and her later techno-influenced songs ("Hung Up," "Ray of Light"). It also adds a newly recorded track, "Celebration," produced with Paul Oakenfold. The only track that comes close to balladry is the mid-tempo Latin groove, "La Isla Bonita." The collection does a fine job of living up to the title--it's certainly a celebration of Madonna's career and includes some of the most celebratory and thrilling pop music ever created. | | Madonna's run at the top of the charts lasted so long, longer than almost any other star, it's almost impossible to squeeze all the hits onto one collection. And so it is that Celebration, a double-disc, 36-track set that also has a companion single-disc condensation, misses a few songs, hits as gorgeous as "Rain" and as goofily camp as "Hanky Panky," but truth be told, they're not greatly missed on this parade of pop genius that's hampered only slightly by its non-chronological order. Out of order, it does emphasize Madonna's consistency, and the bigger problem with the collection is that it mixes up album mixes, single edits, Q-Sound mixes pulled from The Immaculate Collection, and a couple of stray odd edits and mixes. This is a mess, but not quite enough to dilute what is one of the greatest bodies of work in modern pop -- even in this mixed-up confusion, these singles are a joy to hear. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Musical Guests | | Justin Timberlake | | Timbaland |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Christina Aguilera ~ Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Christina Aguilera ~ Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Artists, Various | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Getting Into The Grooves: Madonna... ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | The Dance Floor Tribute To Madonna ~ Artists, Various | | Who's That Girl ~ Original Soundtrack | | Selections from Evita ~ Original Soundtrack | | Selections from Evita ~ Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | I'm Going to Tell You a Secret [PA] ~ Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Getting Into The Grooves: A Tribute To Madonna ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | The Dancefloor Tribute to Madonna ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Vitamin String Quartet |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/29/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 289404 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624992745 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.74)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "CELEBRATION kicks off with pure bliss and never lets up. It's a dizzying, non-chronological spin through the Madonna years, years it makes you feel lucky to be living through."Entertainment Weekly (p.56)
- "36 tracks covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career. It all holds up surprisingly well." -- Grade: B AllMusicGuide.com 8 of 10
Madonna's run at the top of the charts lasted so long, longer than almost any other star, it's almost impossible to squeeze all the hits onto one collection. And so it is that Celebration, a double-disc, 36-track set that also has a companion single-disc condensation, misses a few songs, hits as gorgeous as "Rain" and as goofily camp as "Hanky Panky," but truth be told, they're not greatly missed on this parade of pop genius that's hampered only slightly by its non-chronological order. Out of order, it does emphasize Madonna's consistency, and the bigger problem with the collection is that it mixes up album mixes, single edits, Q-Sound mixes pulled from The Immaculate Collection, and a couple of stray odd edits and mixes. This is a mess, but not quite enough to dilute what is one of the greatest bodies of work in modern pop -- even in this mixed-up confusion, these singles are a joy to hear. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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