The Katie Melua Collection

The Katie Melua Collection
The Katie Melua Collection
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Compilation album by Katie Melua
Released	October 27, 2008
Genre	Pop; rock; vocal jazz;
Length	61:46
Label	Dramatico
Producer	Mike Batt
Katie Melua chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
BBC Music	(positive) ^[2]

The Katie Melua Collection is a compilation album by Georgian-born British singer and songwriter Katie Melua. The album is a two disc set with 17 songs, three previously unreleased, and a DVD that was filmed in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The album includes the singles "When You Taught Me How to Dance" from the film Miss Potter, "What a Wonderful World" with a recording of Eva Cassidy, and three new songs: "Toy Collection" (written by Melua for the film Faintheart), "Two Bare Feet", and "Somewhere in the Same Hotel".^[3]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	From Album	Length
1.	"The Closest Thing to Crazy"	Mike Batt	Call Off the Search	4:15
2.	"Nine Million Bicycles"	Batt	Piece by Piece	3:17
3.	"What a Wonderful World (duet with Eva Cassidy)"	Bob Thiele, George David Weiss	Previously unreleased	4:19
4.	"If You Were a Sailboat"	Batt	Pictures	4:01
5.	"Piece by Piece"	Katie Melua	Piece by Piece	3:24
6.	"Call Off the Search"	Batt	Call Off the Search	3:25
7.	"On the Road Again"	Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson	Piece by Piece	4:38
8.	"Mary Pickford"	Batt	Pictures	3:13
9.	"Spider's Web"	Melua	Piece by Piece	3:56
10.	"Thank You, Stars"	Batt	Piece by Piece	3:40
11.	"I Cried for You"	Melua	Piece by Piece	3:38
12.	"Crawling up a Hill"	John Mayall	Call Off the Search	3:25
13.	"Tiger in the Night"	Batt	Call Off the Search	3:08
14.	"When You Taught Me How to Dance"	Batt, Nigel Westlake, Richard Maltby Jr., Melua	Miss Potter Soundtrack	3:24
15.	"Two Bare Feet"	Batt, Melua	Previously Unreleased	3:00
16.	"Toy Collection"	Melua	Previously Unreleased	3:13
17.	"Somewhere in the Same Hotel"	Batt, Melua	Previously Unreleased	3:50

Disc 2 (A 90-minute DVD – The Arena Tour 2008, Live from Rotterdam)

Piece By Piece
I Do Believe In Love
My Aphrodisiac Is You
Crawling Up A Hill
Mary Pickford
Blues In The Night
If You Were A Sailboat
Ghost Town
Thank You, Stars
Perfect Circle
What I Miss About You
Spider's Web
If The Lights Go Out
Scary Films
Spellbound
Mockingbird Song
The Closest Thing To Crazy
Nine Million Bicycles
On The Road Again
Kozmic Blues
I Cried For You
Behind the Screens – a short film about the preparation and design of the tour production.

Extra download tracks

Three extra tracks have been released as downloads only, by different vendors:

"Kozmic Blues" – iTunes
"How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You" – available on Tesco Digital download
"By the Light of the Magical Moon" – free download from The Times

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart^[4]	92
Austrian Albums Chart^[5]	29
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart^[5]	13
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart^[5]	8
Danish Albums Chart^[5]	3
Dutch Albums Chart^[5]	3
European Top 100 Albums^[6]	7
Finnish Albums Chart^[5]	40
German Albums Chart	12
Irish Albums Chart	17
New Zealand Albums Chart^[5]	27
Norwegian Albums Chart^[5]	12
Polish Albums Chart	34
Portuguese Albums Chart^[5]	4
Swedish Albums Chart^[5]	25
Swiss Albums Chart^[5]	5
UK Albums Chart^[7]	15

End of year charts

End of year chart (2008)	Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Albums Chart^[8]	100
Swiss Albums Chart^[9]	53
UK Albums Chart^[10]	145
End of year chart (2009)	Position
Swiss Albums Chart^[11]	75

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Belgium (BRMA)^[12]	Gold	15,000^*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)^[13]	Gold	15,000^{^}
Germany (BVMI)^[14]	Gold	100,000^{^}
Portugal (AFP)^[15]	Gold	10,000^{^}
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)^[16]	Platinum	30,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[17]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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External links

Official website

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v t e Katie Melua
Studio albums	Call Off the Search Piece by Piece Pictures The House Secret Symphony Ketevan In Winter Album No. 8 Love & Money
Compilation albums	The Katie Melua Collection
Live albums	Live at the O² Arena
Singles	"The Closest Thing to Crazy" "Call Off the Search" "Crawling Up a Hill" "Nine Million Bicycles" "I Cried for You"/"Just Like Heaven" "Spider's Web" "It's Only Pain" "Shy Boy" "If You Were a Sailboat" "Mary Pickford" "If the Lights Go Out" "Toy Collection" "Two Bare Feet" "The Flood" "A Happy Place" "To Kill You with a Kiss" "Better Than a Dream" "Fields of Gold"
Other singles	"What a Wonderful World" (with Eva Cassidy)
Related	Discography Dramatico

The Katie Melua Collection

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1

Disc 2 (A 90-minute DVD – The Arena Tour 2008, Live from Rotterdam)

Extra download tracks

Chart performance

Weekly charts

End of year charts

Certifications

References

External links

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The Katie Melua Collection

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Disc 1

Disc 2 (A 90-minute DVD – The Arena Tour 2008, Live from Rotterdam)

Extra download tracks

Chart performance

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End of year charts

Certifications

References

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