# Ultimate Collection (Eurythmics album)

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Ultimate Collection is the second greatest hits album by British pop duo Eurythmics, released on 7 November 2005 by RCA Records. It marked a return for the duo to the recording studio to write and record the only single to be released from the album, "I've Got a Life", which became a commercial success, topping the US Dance Club Songs, reaching the top ten in Scotland and the top twenty in the United Kingdom.

## Background and release

The release of the album was preceded by one week the reissue of all eight Eurythmics back-catalogue albums originally released by RCA Records. These reissues include remastered tracks and bonus material. The fact that the Ultimate Collection was closely connected to these reissues is also the chief reason for the omission of "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)". While that song peaked at number four in the United Kingdom in 1984 and was later featured on the previous Greatest Hits album released in 1991, it is actually taken from the 1984 Virgin Records soundtrack album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother), Eurythmics' only album to date not to be released by RCA Records in the UK.
Unlike 1991's Greatest Hits, Ultimate Collection contains two previous unreleased songs, "I've Got a Life" and "Was It Just Another Love Affair?", both recorded during the Peace album sessions, and all of the tracks have been remastered. It also contains no tracks from the duo's albums In the Garden (1981) and, unlike Greatest Hits, We Too Are One (1989). One of the new songs, "I've Got a Life", was released as a single. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 and spent three weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States.
Ultimate Collection peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and has since been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except "When Tomorrow Comes" co-written by Patrick Seymour

## Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Ultimate Collection.
* David A. Stewart – production (tracks 1–16, 19)
* Adam Williams – production (track 2)
* Eurythmics – production (tracks 17, 18)
* Stevie Wonder – harmonica (track 8)
* Aretha Franklin – vocals (track 9)
* Lewis Ziolek – photography
* Peter Ashworth – photography
* Michael Segal – photography
* Laurence Stevens – art direction, graphic design
* Ian Cooper – mastering, remastering

## Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Ultimate Collection :
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Australia (ARIA) | 2× Platinum | 140,000$^‡$ |
| Belgium (BEA) | Gold | 25,000$^*$ |
| Germany (BVMI) | Platinum | 200,000$^‡$ |
| Ireland (IRMA) | 2× Platinum | 30,000$^^$ |
| Italy sales in 2005 | — | 130,000 |
| Italy (FIMI) | Gold | 25,000$^*$ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ) | Gold | 7,500$^^$ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | 3× Platinum | 900,000$^^$ |
| $^*$ Sales figures based on certification alone. $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. $^‡$ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |||