Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by the English musician 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 music-influenced "This War".
Sacred Love received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, peaking at number three in the US and UK. It would be Sting's last album of original material until The Last Ship (2013).
Background
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. The first single "Send Your Love" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, but it lost to "Cry Me a River" by Justin Timberlake.
In August 2015, Mylène Farmer and Sting duetted on "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" and released it as the lead single from Farmer's tenth studio album, Interstellaires;
Track listing
Personnel
Technical credits
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Simon Osborne – recording, mixing
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Steve Miller – mix engineer (11)
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Peter "Hopps" Lorimer – assistant engineer
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Donal Hodgson – Pro Tools engineer and programming
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Claudius Mittendorfer – technical assistant
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Charlie Paakkari – technical assistant
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Rodolphe Plisson – technical assistant
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Dave Audé – remixing and additional production (11)
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Chris Blair – stereo mastering
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Peter Mew – 5.1 mastering
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Danny Quatrochi – personal technician
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Recorded at Studio Mega (Paris, France); The Hit Factory (New York City, New York); Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California).
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Mastered at Abbey Road Studios (London, UK).
Production credits
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Martin Kierszenbaum – A&R
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Andrea Ruffalo – A&R coordinator
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Tam Fairgrieve – production manager
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Richard Frankel – package design
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Paolo Roversi – photography
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Kathryn Schenker – management
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) | 45 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 52 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 27 |
French Albums (SNEP) | 112 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 42 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) | 89 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 19 |
UK Albums (OCC) | 87 |
US Billboard 200 | 122 |
Worldwide Albums (IFPI) | 34 |
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Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 51 |
US Billboard 200 | 130 |
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Certifications and sales
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