Sacred Love

For other uses, see Sacred Love (disambiguation).
Sacred Love
Studio album by Sting
Released 29 September 2003 (2003-09-29)[1]
Recorded 2002–2003
Genre Rock, electronic, pop
Length 57:38
Label A&M
Producer Sting, Kipper
Sting chronology
...All This Time
(2001)		 Sacred Love
(2003)		 Songs from the Labyrinth
(2006)
Singles from Sacred Love
  1. "Send Your Love"
    Released: August 1, 2003
  2. "Whenever I Say Your Name"
    Released: November 1, 2003
  3. "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)"
    Released: April 26, 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [3]
Entertainment WeeklyB− [4]
Mojo [2]
PopMatters [5]
Q [2]
Rolling Stone [6]

Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by Sting. The album was released on 29 September 2003. The album featured smoother, R&B-style beats and experiments collaborating with hip-hop artist Mary J. Blige and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Some songs like "Inside" and "Dead Man's Rope" were well received; and Sting had experimented with new sounds, in particular the more rock-influenced "This War".

Sting adapted the first quatrain of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence for the first four sung lines of "Send Your Love".

Sting's collaboration with Blige, "Whenever I Say Your Name", won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004.

In August 2015, Mylène Farmer and Sting duetted on Stolen Car and released it as the lead single from Farmer's forthcoming tenth studio album, Interstellaires;[7] the track is produced by The Avener.[8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Sting. All tracks produced by Sting and Kipper; co-production on "Send Your Love" by Victor Calderone, and "Never Coming Home" by BT.

No.TitleLength
1."Inside"  4:46
2."Send Your Love" (featuring Vicente Amigo)4:38
3."Whenever I Say Your Name" (featuring Mary J. Blige)5:25
4."Dead Man's Rope"  5:44
5."Never Coming Home"  4:58
6."Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)"  3:55
7."Forget About the Future"  5:12
8."This War"  5:29
9."The Book of My Life" (featuring Anoushka Shankar)6:14
10."Sacred Love"  5:43

Bonus tracks

There have been multiple editions of this album. Some of them, such as the Japanese edition, feature various extra songs and remixes. Although the track list on the official Sting website includes a remix of "Send Your Love" and a live version of "Shape of My Heart", these are not always available.

Depending on the edition, the following bonus tracks may be included:

Remix tracks

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2003/04) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[9] 13
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11] 6
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12] 6
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[13] 3
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[14] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[15] 3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[16] 8
French Albums (SNEP)[17] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18] 2
Irish Albums (IRMA)[19] 8
Italian Albums (FIMI)[20] 1
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[21] 10
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[22] 13
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[23] 3
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[24] 1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[25] 2
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[26] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[27] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[28] 3
US Billboard 200[29] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
Austrian Albums Chart[30] 45
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[31] 52
Dutch Albums Chart[32] 27
Italian Albums Chart[33] 30
Swedish Albums Chart[34] 89
Swiss Albums Chart[35] 19
US Billboard 200[36] 122
Chart (2004) Position
Dutch Albums Chart[37] 51
US Billboard 200[38] 130

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[39] Platinum 100,000^
France (SNEP)[40] Gold 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[41] Gold 100,000^
Hungary (MAHASZ)[42] Gold 10,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[43] Gold 92,053[44]
Russia (NFPF)[45] Platinum 20,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[46] Platinum 40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[47] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[48] Platinum 1,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[49] Platinum 1,000,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Critic reviews for Sacred Love". Metacritic. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Sacred Love – Sting: Overview". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Sinclair, Tom (3 October 2003). "Music Review: Sacred Love (2003) – Sting". Entertainment Weekly (731). ISSN 1049-0434. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  5. ↑ MacNeil, Jason (10 December 2003). "Sting: Sacred Love". PopMatters. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Wild, David (24 September 2003). "Sacred Love". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  7. ↑ Presse, Prisma. "Mylène Farmer: Un nouvel album au titre évocateur - Gala". Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  8. ↑ http://www.mylene.net/modules/index.php?r=4&z=4325
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  33. ↑ "Hit Parade Italia - Gli album più venduti del 2005" (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  34. ↑ "Årslista Album – År 2005" (in Swedish). Hitlistan.se. Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
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