Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits

Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits is a 2001 greatest hits album by the musical project Enigma. The album, along with Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection brings a close to Michael Cretu's first chapter of Enigma. It contains most of Enigma's singles and songs from 1990 to 2001.

Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Enigma
Released	8 October 2001
Recorded	A.R.T. Studios, Ibiza, 1990–2001
Genre	New-age, ambient
Length	76:29
Label	Virgin
Producer	Michael Cretu
Enigma chronology
The Screen Behind the Mirror (2000) Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits (2001) Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Slant Magazine	[2]

The album takes three songs from the first album, MCMXC a.D., four songs from The Cross of Changes, four songs from Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!, five songs from The Screen Behind the Mirror, and also features a new single "Turn Around" and its intro "The Landing".

Track listing

1. "The Landing" (Michael Cretu) – 1:04
2. "Turn Around" (Cretu, Jens Gad) – 3:51
3. "Gravity of Love" (Cretu) – 3:59
4. "T.N.T. for the Brain" (Cretu) – 5:18
5. "Modern Crusaders" (Cretu) – 3:53
6. "Shadows in Silence" (Cretu) – 4:19
7. "Return to Innocence" (Curly M.C., Kuo Ying-nan, Kuo Hsiu-chu) – 4:15
8. "I Love You ... I'll Kill You" (Curly, David Fairstein) – 8:01
9. "Principles of Lust" (Curly) – 3:08
10. "Sadeness (Part I)" (Curly, F. Gregorian, Fairstein) – 4:15
11. "Silence Must Be Heard" (Cretu, Gad) – 4:46
12. "Smell of Desire" (Cretu, Fairstein) – 4:32
13. "Mea Culpa" (Curly, Fairstein) – 4:31
14. "Push the Limits" (Cretu, Gad) – 3:48
15. "Beyond the Invisible" (Cretu, Fairstein) – 4:50
16. "Age of Loneliness" (Curly) – 4:10
17. "Morphing Thru Time" (Cretu) – 5:26
18. "The Cross of Changes" (Cretu) – 2:15

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] 49 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[4] 10 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[5] 9 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[6] 40 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[7] 7 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] 4 Italian Albums (FIMI)[9] 19 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10] 10 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[11] 5 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[12] 6 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 11 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[14] 13 UK Albums (OCC)[15] 29 US Billboard 200[16] 29

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[17] 95 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18] 82 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19] 95

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[20]	Gold	50,000^^
Germany (BVMI)[21]	Gold	150,000^^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[22]	Gold	7,500^^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[23]	Gold	50,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[24]	Gold	100,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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23. Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p. 958. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
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