You Can Dance

Madonna's first remix album, You Can Dance, was released in 1989. Sire Records released it on November 17, 1987. The album includes remixes of songs from her first three studio albums: Madonna (1983), Like a Virgin (1984), and True Blue (1986), as well as a new song called "Spotlight". Remixing was still a new concept and technology in the 1980s. Madonna became interested in the concept after observing that she disliked it when others remixed her songs and desired to do it herself.

The mixes on You Can Dance used a variety of standard mixing techniques. Instrumental passages were lengthened to allow more time for dancing, which undermined the original pop song's tighter structure. Vocal phrases were repeated and echoed multiple times before being panned across the stereophonic sound outlets. Madonna's ongoing fascination with Hispanic culture was reflected on the album cover. You Can Dance received mostly positive reviews from critics after its release. You Can Dance was a commercial success, earning a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for a million-copy shipment and charting in the top twenty on the Billboard 200. It reached the top ten on the album charts of France, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and went on to sell five million copies worldwide, making it the second best-selling remix album of all time. "Spotlight" was the only single released from the album in Japan, but charted on the airplay charts of Billboard due to radio play and peaked at number 32.

Genre: Dance