The Katie Melua Collection

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 Katie Melua Collection
Compilation album by
Katie Melua
ReleasedOctober 27, 2008 (2008-10-27)
Genre
Length61:46
LabelDramatico
ProducerMike Batt
Katie Melua chronology
Pictures
(2007)		 The Katie Melua Collection
(2008)		 Live at the O² Arena
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
BBC Music(positive) [2]

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
  1. "The Closest Thing to Crazy" (Mike Batt)
  2. "Nine Million Bicycles" (Batt)
  3. "What a Wonderful World" (duet with Eva Cassidy) (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss)
  4. "If You Were a Sailboat" (Batt)
  5. "Piece by Piece" (Katie Melua)
  6. "Call Off the Search" (Batt)
  7. "On the Road Again" (Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson)
  8. "Mary Pickford" (Batt)
  9. "Spider's Web" (Melua)
  10. "Thank You, Stars" (Batt)
  11. "I Cried for You" (Melua)
  12. "Crawling up a Hill" (John Mayall)
  13. "Tiger in the Night" (Batt)
  14. "When You Taught Me How to Dance" (Batt, Nigel Westlake, Richard Maltby Jr., Melua)
  15. "Two Bare Feet" (Batt, Melua)
  16. "Toy Collection" (Melua)
  17. "Somewhere in the Same Hotel" (Batt, Melua)

Disc 2
  1. A 90-minute DVD – The Arena Tour 2008, Live from Rotterdam.
  2. 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:

Chart performance

References
  1. O'Brien, Jon. "The Katie Melua Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  2. "Music - Review of Katie Melua - The Katie Melua Collection". BBC. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  3. "Katie Melua - Collection: Includes Dvd". HMV. hmv.com. Aug 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
  4. "Pandora Archive" (PDF). Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  5. Steffen Hung. "Katie Melua - The Katie Melua Collection". danishcharts.dk. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  6. "Pandora Archive" (PDF). Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  7. "The Official Charts Company - Katie Melua - The Collection". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  8. "Ultratop Belgian Charts". ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  9. Steffen Hung. "Swiss Year-End Charts 2008". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
  10. Chartwatch Annual Chart Booklets->Year 2008 Retrieved January 3, 2011.
  11. "Swiss Year-End Charts 2009". Media Control. Hung Medien. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
  12. "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 2008". Ultratop. Hung Medien.
  13. "Danish album certifications – Katie Melua – The Katie Melua Collection". IFPI Denmark. Scroll through the page-list below until year 2008 to obtain certification.
  14. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Katie Melua; 'The Katie Melua Collection')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  15. "Portuguese album certifications – Katie Melua – The Collection" (in Portuguese). Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa. Archived from the original on September 18, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  16. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Katie Melua; 'The Katie Melua Collection')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
  17. "British album certifications – Katie Melua – The Collection". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type The Collection in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.


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