Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits

Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits
US edition
Greatest hits album by
Bette Midler
ReleasedJune 22, 1993
1996 (re-release)
GenreVocal
Length51:35
66:27 (re-release)
LabelAtlantic
Bette Midler chronology
For the Boys
(1991) 		Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits
(1993) 		Gypsy
(1993)
Alternative cover
International edition
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert Christgau(choice cut)[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American singer Bette Midler, featuring many of her best-known songs. The fourteen track compilation was released on Atlantic Records in 1993.

While several greatest hits albums with Midler had been released in the UK, Continental Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan throughout the 1970s and 1980s, such as The Best of Bette (1978) and The Best of Bette (1981)—two different compilations with the same title—and Just Hits (1987), this was the first career overview to be released worldwide including the US and Canada, some twenty years after Midler recorded her first studio album for the Atlantic Records label. The album included one new recording, Midler's Emmy Award-winning rendition of "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", sung to retiring talk show host Johnny Carson on the penultimate Tonight Show in May 1992. Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits peaked at #50 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1993 and was three years later certified platinum for one million copies sold in the US.

Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits was re-released in Europe, Australia and New Zealand in 1996 with a slightly altered track list, then also including two of Midler's biggest hits which for some reason had been left off the 1993 edition; "Favorite Waste of Time" and the Rolling Stones cover "Beast of Burden", both from the 1983 album No Frills. The 1996 edition also included two versions of the US hit single "To Deserve You", taken from what became Midler's final studio album for Atlantic, 1995's Bette of Roses.

Track listings

1993 edition

  1. "Hello in There" (John Prine) – 4:17
  2. "Do You Want to Dance?" (Bobby Freeman) – 2:44
  3. "From a Distance" (Julie Gold) – 4:37
  4. "Chapel of Love" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 2:53
  5. "Only in Miami" (Max Gronenthal) – 3:57
  6. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright) – 4:42
  7. "The Rose" (Single version) (Amanda McBroom) – 3:40
  8. "Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter) – 2:39
  9. "Shiver Me Timbers" (Live version) (Tom Waits) – 4:42
  10. "Wind Beneath My Wings" (Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar) – 4:52
    • From the 1988 soundtrack album Beaches
  11. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Don Raye, Hughie Prince) – 2:19
    • Previously unavailable on album hit 45 version. Original studio version appears on 1972 album The Divine Miss M
  12. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Live) (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, additional lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Bette Midler) – 4:06
    • Previously unreleased. Recorded and aired on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 21, 1992.
  13. "Friends" (Mark Klingman, Buzzy Linhart) – 2:55
  14. "In My Life" (Single version) (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:12

1996 edition

  1. "To Deserve You" (single remix) (Maria McKee) – 4:11
  2. "Beast of Burden" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:48
  3. "Favorite Waste of Time" (Marshall Crenshaw) – 2:40
  4. "Hello in There" (Prine) – 4:17
  5. "Do You Want to Dance?" (Freeman) – 2:44
  6. "From a Distance" (Gold) – 4:38
  7. "Chapel of Love" (Barry, Greenwich, Spector) – 2:53
  8. "Only in Miami" (Gronenthal) – 3:57
  9. "When a Man Loves a Woman" (Lewis, Wright) – 4:54
  10. "The Rose" (McBroom) – 3:34
  11. "Miss Otis Regrets" (Porter) – 2:39
  12. "Shiver Me Timbers" (Live version) (Tom Waits) – 4:42
  13. "Wind Beneath My Wings" (Henley, Silbar) – 4:53
    • From the 1988 soundtrack album Beaches
  14. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (Prince, Raye) – 2:19
  15. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer, additional lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Bette Midler) – 4:06
    • Previously unreleased. Recorded and aired on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on May 21, 1992.
  16. "Friends" (Klingman, Linhart) – 2:55
  17. "In My Life" (Single version) (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:12
  18. "To Deserve You" (album version) (McKee) – 5:13

Production (1993 edition)

  • Bette Midler – compilation producer
  • Arif Mardin – compilation producer
  • Scott Wittman – creative consultant
  • Doug Sax – digital remastering at The Mastering Lab
  • Greg Gorman – cover photo
  • Rod Dyer Group / Qris Yamashita – art direction

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications for Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[25] 4× Platinum 280,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[26] Gold 50,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[27] 2× Platinum 200,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[28] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[30] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Bette Midler". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
  3. ^ Woodard, Josef (July 30, 1993). "Experience the Divine". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  4. ^ Coleman, Marc; Brackett, Nathan (2004). "Bette Midler". In Brackett, Nathan; Christian, Hoard (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 540. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 2191". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  8. ^ "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 11, no. 3. January 8, 1994. p. 13. OCLC 29800226.
  9. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Top 10 Sales in Europe – Ireland" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 10, no. 46. November 13, 1993. p. 20. OCLC 29800226.
  11. ^ "Charts.nz – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  13. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  14. ^ "Bette Midler Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  15. ^ "Top 100 Pop Albums" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. LVI, no. 47. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. July 31, 1993. p. 14. ISSN 0008-7289.
  16. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  17. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Bette Midler – Experience The Divine - Greatest Hits" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  18. ^ "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 13, no. 31. August 3, 1996. p. 16. OCLC 29800226.
  19. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  20. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  21. ^ "End of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  22. ^ "Top Selling Albums of 1993 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  23. ^ "Top 100 Albums 1993" (PDF). Music Week. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. January 15, 1994. p. 25. ISSN 0265-1548.
  24. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Jaaroverzichten – Album 1996" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  25. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  26. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Bette Midler – Experience the Divine". Music Canada.
  27. ^ "Dutch album certifications – Bette Midler – Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Retrieved October 22, 2020. Enter Experience the Divine: Greatest Hits in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 2000 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen".
  28. ^ "New Zealand album certifications – Bette Midler – Experience the Divine". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  29. ^ "British album certifications – Bette Midler – Experience the Divine". British Phonographic Industry.
  30. ^ "American album certifications – Bette Midler – Experience the Divine". Recording Industry Association of America.

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