Tracks produced by:
John "Jellybean" Benitez - tracks 1 & 6
Reggie Lucas - track 2
Reggie Lucas and John "Jellybean" Benitez - track 3
Nile Rodgers - tracks 4 & 5
Madonna and Stephen Bray - tracks 7, 9 & 13
Madonna and Patrick Leonard - tracks 8, 10, 11, 12 & 14
Madonna and Shep Pettibone - tracks 15 & 17
Lenny Kravitz - track 16
O.K. MM - treat it however you see fit. I know that when I was looking around op shops (not that I've done that in the last couple of years) it was far more common to see the numbered edition than the standard release that is what prompted me to check in Discogs.
My apologies Jasper, I should've handled this differently.
The log for this shows that member RPFiller made this entry, and supplied corresponding images for, and with the Australian Gold disc collector's numbered edition picture disc (phew!)...
...It just so happens, as I said earlier, that this is something I have personally encountered (though I'm not a Madonna aficionado) , with another title of Madonna's titles, and so know for sure, it's a thing particular to that artist, that she does / has done, in having these special Gold tour editions of her albums made available only at Australian gigs... and so are of particular interest and collectability to Madonna fans all over the world - hence the enhanced price / value for them.
(I'm sure a Madonna fan will be able to help inform everyone about these discs properly)
That Discogs has more owners for this than the standard issue is not, I would suggest, significant, for the reasons that first off, this greatest hits package by one the most major international artists which sold by the ton must surely mean there's more copies even in Australia of the standard issue than the clearly limited numbering of this edition would allow, and by some considerable margin, I'd bet...
...And also, the "owners" there may have made the same... mistake (?) you did:
The assumption (natural enough) that all other details being the same, between the standard and this, that whichever one they clicked on is right for their copy... I'd bet you'd find owners for the this edition there that actually have the standard issue, and vice versa.
Not helpful by the record label to issue both with same details admittedly!
But they are, and should be considered to be separate issues, of different significance to Madonna fans due to other substantial variations in them.
This aside, I should have just kept the images here on this page until the standard issue entry was made, and then moved your images over.
Hi Jasper, Sorry if I have opened up a can of worms! I have the original 1990 edition of this, and was hoping to enter it this weekend.
If the 1993 release is just another repress (and doesn't require it's own listing), then shouldn't this entry have the Date changed to 1990 (as this is the original date that this cat# / barcode combination was used), the Format changed back to CD Album and I upload the original album cover for the "Front Cover" image, moving the "Collectors Edition" image into the block of images below.
At the moment Madonna's discography shows that "The Immaculate Collection" wasn't released / manufactured in Australia until 1993.
Who would of thought a "numbered collectors edition" would become more common than the original release, especially of a major artists Greatest Hits package!
By the way I do not agree that this should be separated from the so called standard edition. We do not separate vinyl albums even decades apart as long as the cat # is the same. There is nothing special about this release except the advertising gimmick of numbering. This was sold through normal retail outlets and is more common than the standard edition - Discogs 258 own this and 92 the standard edition. Track list is exactly the same, cat# - same, barcode - same. So what's special about it?
O.K. so my images have been removed and now there is no reference to the standard Australian release on this site. I guess someone will get around to entering it one day.
I have changed this to Special Edition, as requested, and removed Jasper's images.
These are most definitely different and separate issues, in spite of other details being the same, these are numbered issues available only at venues....I have the Erotica one somewhere (No idea how I got it, or where :( and they tend to be worth a couple of bobs too! :)