{"id":263936,"date":"2010-02-20T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/xmlimport\/index.php\/2010\/02\/20\/sade-adu-returns-sales-5m-units-of-new-cd-in-one-week\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T08:00:12","slug":"sade-adu-returns-sales-5m-units-of-new-cd-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2010\/02\/20\/sade-adu-returns-sales-5m-units-of-new-cd-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sade Adu returns .. sales .5m units of new CD in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"caption\" http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/images\/dec\/sade2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sade\" title=\"sade\" align=\"left\" \/>An army of fans more than 500,000 of them\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 went out to support Sade\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s latest CD, <\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cSoldier of Love,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d giving the group their first No. 1 disc in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cSoldier of Love\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d sold 501,665 units in its first week, debuting on top of the Billboard 200 album charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan.<\/p>\n<p>The CD is the follow-up to their Grammy-winning album \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cLovers Rock,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d released in 2000. The group is led by 51-year-old Sade Adu (ah-DOO\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2).<\/p>\n<p>It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been 10 years since her last album, a fatal hiatus for almost any other artist, but just another hibernation for a woman whose disdain for fame only deepens our fascination. Sade\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s voice sounds unchanged, a unique emotional instrument that conjures visions of rain-streaked windows and windblown streets. Her topics love, loss, sorrow, strength remain the same. But her music has still moved forward.<\/p>\n<p>The aggressive title track makes a bold statement, its stabbing drums continuing the bass-heavy direction of her 2000 release, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cLover\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Rock.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Some of the new album\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s 10 songs are classic, smooth Sade. But there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s also a country twanger, a reggae-tinged ode to father who are not husbands, even Sade\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s first uptempo number since 1992\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cKiss of Life.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This is only the sixth album in 25 years for Helen Folasade Adu, born in her father\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Nigeria and raised in her mother\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s England. She is still working with her original three bandmates: bassist Paul Denman, guitarist and saxophonist Stuart Matthewman, and keyboardist Andrew Hale. She is still mysterious, ageless and defiant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI only make records when I feel I have something to say,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Sade says on her Web site. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sade Adu returns .. sales .5m units of new CD in one week - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2010\/02\/20\/sade-adu-returns-sales-5m-units-of-new-cd-in-one-week\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sade Adu returns .. sales .5m units of new CD in one week - 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