nyse said:

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nyse said:

She performed "Soldier of Love" at the end of the show, with a bit of an interview.

nyse said:

Wow! 51 years old, gimmick free, seldom seen half naked and yet enthusiastically embraced throughout the world after a nearly ten year absence...The Lady is doing something right!

A rare gem indeed.
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I cannot wait for the tour.

syl said:

From HITS:




LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 SADE EPIC 481,204 --
SOLDIER OF LOVE

Without further adu, Sade will be the musical guest on an all-new Jimmy Kimmel tonite on abc.

babynoz said:

Yes she is. I saw the Ellen performance. Ellen's show didn't come on in NYC until 8pm tonight. I'm staying up to see her on Jimmy Kimmel tonight as well.

'Soldier of Love' Was A Long Time Coming For Reclusive Sade


February 16, 2010

Sade's jazzy soul songs have often teetered between heartbreak and hope, and the title track of her just-out Soldier of Love album walks that emotional line over a crackling martial groove that returns the British chanteuse to the spotlight for the first time in a decade.

She says fans were always asking when she'd release a successor to 2000's Lovers Rock, which sold nearly 4 million copies, but she was never ready to set aside a block of time to record one.

"Life kind of gets in the way of it, and time always passes quicker than you think," says Sade (aka Sade Adu), 51, by phone from her home in England. "One of the reasons it takes me a long time to get back into the studio is that once I go in, I'm there for the duration.

"It's like embarking on a long journey on a ship, and once I'm on it, I can't get off."

She and bandmates Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denman and Andrew Hale broke through in 1984 with Diamond Life, which earned them the best-new-artist Grammy. A performance at Live Aid exposed the group to a global TV audience of 1.4 billion, and all of Sade's subsequent, less frequent albums —Promise (1985), Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992) and Lovers Rock (2000) — went multiplatinum.

Billboard projects the new album will make its debut at No. 1, with first-week sales of 375,000 to 400,000.

The band began crafting the 10-song Soldier of Love two years ago, and Matthewman and Denman commuted from the USA for a series of two-week sessions at a studio near Sade's home in rural Gloucestershire. The quartet, who have worked together since their pre-fame days as part of the Latin funk band Pride, managed to rediscover their chemistry, even though they had seen little of one another in the past decade.

"It's like a real powerful long-distance relationship," she says. "We really do pick up where we left off in terms of our musical friendship."

Emil Wilbekin, managing editor of Essence.com, says Sade is a rare artist who can stay away for long periods but still have fans eagerly awaiting her return because she's a genuine artist.

"We're in this age of transition with everything digital and Auto-Tuned, and here she is with this beautiful, soulful, emotional voice," Wilbekin says. "She captures an intimacy that we don't have much in music anymore. She makes you feel like she's sitting with you in your living room and singing."

The new album is at once fresh and familiar. The mesmerizing rhythms and hauntingly sensual vocals that have been Sade's signature since the group's debut seem unaffected by pop music's changing flavors. Sade says the band guards against letting outside influences infiltrate the music just to sell records.

"We've never been a trendy band," she says; the group's five previous albums sold a total of 17 million copies in the USA. "If what we do comes from the heart, I kind of feel that there will be somebody that gets it. It's a privilege for us to be in a position where we can make the music we want to make."

The rollout of the new album means the public is seeing a lot more than usual of the reclusive singer, who wraps up with a stop Saturday on The Wanda SykesShow. She shuns the limelight and strives to keep her private life private. (She shares a home with partner Ian Watts, her teenage daughter and his teenage son.)

"I suppose people expect singers to be in your face," Sade says. "I do my best to put as much of me inside a song as I can, and I don't want it to go any further. I never hankered for the attention other people might want as affirmation."



http://www.usatoday.com/l...7_ST_N.htm
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^ another good article.

Jimmy Kimmel performance last night.

syl said:

It is the same BORING performance she has done on the other shows.

actually she moved around a bit more on this one.

Graycap23 said:

Gray, leave our Sade alone, she's cool like that, and have been away from the stage for a while, give her a chance okay, and yes, like another orger said she did move around the stage a bit more and had a big smile on her face during most of her performance on Jimmy. She was never one to move all over the stage. Back in the day, you didn't see Aretha, and many female singers prancing all over the stage, well, with the exception of Tina Turner, and for Tina to stand still would be odd. Sade is smooth cool, and not jumping all over the stage is not really her thing. I think people are so used to seeing current artists do that with 10 million dancers behind them, distracting viewers from the artist, that when another singer doesn't do that, it seems odd these days to some.
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2elijah said:

I don't see the point of doing a live performance that is the SAME as the record. I don't get it.

syl said:

C'est magnifique. She's like a rain cloud over the barren plain that is today's music scene.

Sade's 'Soldier' Sizzles At No. 1 On Billboard 200

February 17, 2010



Nearly 10 years after the group's last studio effort, Sade is back with "Soldier of Love," blasting in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 502,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


"Solder of Love" gives Sade its first No. 1 debut and its best sales week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. On top of that, it's the best sales week for an album by a group since AC/DC's "Black Ice" bulldozed into the chart at No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 8, 2008, with 784,000.


"Soldier" is Sade's second No. 1 album. Its first, "Promise," spent two weeks at the top of the chart in 1986. The new album is also the first studio effort from the band -- led by vocalist Sade Adu -- since "Lovers Rock" was released in November of 2000. That set debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 370,000 sold in its first week. Since its release, "Lovers Rock" has sold 3.9 million in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

All told, Sade has notched eight top 10 albums in a row on the Billboard 200 -- its entire output of albums, which stretches back to its "Diamond Life" debut in 1985. That total includes its six studio sets, one greatest hits ("The Best Of") and one live recording ("Lovers Live"). With that feat of eight top 10s, Sade is the first group since Led Zeppelin to see its first eight charting albums all reach the top 10. Led Zeppelin actually did it with its first 10 albums -- from 1969 with its self-titled No. 10-peaking set, up until 1983 when "Coda" topped out at No. 6.



http://www.billboard.com/...tag=hpfeed

Identity said:

This is ONLY possible because todays act are so damn WEAK.

Identity said:

WOW! Great news. Congrats Sade!!

Graycap23 said:

You are overlooking the fact that Sade has a sizable fanbase that has shown much torrid enthusiasm for her new releases & live performances. She has cultivated a brand that defies time, trends and (most certainly) skeptics.

Identity said:

I'm not over looking that. I dig Sade as well as others but if the acts today were worth 2 damn pennies.....people who not be over hyping Sade, Maxwell and others. Just my 2 pennies.

^ there are plenty of great artists out there, many independant, you just have to dig deeper. If you are looking for popular "acts" then I'm afraid you're right, but that's another thread.
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syl said:

4 the average music fan.....they are NOT trying 2 dig deeper.

Identity said:

Or the fact that her sales are increasing. Her fanbase is actually growing. Break. It. Down!

The first single its ok-but just imagine if she sung all the songs on elixer-that would be hot

^
Elixer got the reception it deserved-- languishing on the shelves of Target retail stores nationwide.

Identity said:

Elixer is as good as this cd. In fact, it may be better.

Graycap23 said:

I agree... infact I like Elixer better because it is "romantic" whereas "Soldier" is sad love affairs.

Identity said:

Absolutely astonishing numbers for Sade, especially considering how paltry sales numbers have been over the past several years in general.

It's well-deserved - the album is terrific.

Identity said:

Agreed. It's not in the same stratosphere as anything Sade has released.