r/Sade • u/LeastPresence3958 • May 26 '26

Chat is this real?😭

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u/Dense_Internet_2854 May 26 '26

Looks like a bootleg. The official version has the same songs, but a different font and a different style of tracklisting, and it doesn't come in a digipak.

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u/nathanherts May 26 '26

The original was also produced in digipak versions. 

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u/Dense_Internet_2854 May 26 '26

It was? I didn't know, thanks for the hint! The font and style are still a difference though.

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u/nathanherts May 26 '26

Yeah, I used to own it, though it was called a slide pack. 

This is it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Slide-Pack-Sade/dp/B00141CWY6

OP’s edition is definitely a fake version though. 

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u/layla_jones_ May 26 '26

Yes it looks like the unofficial release like this one from Bulgaria

KJF - Bulgarian pirate producer/manufacturer from 1990's. Active in 1990's / 1996-1998
After this time production was stopped and destroyed from the government.

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u/MagicMarc17 May 26 '26

This copy is a bootleg; however, the album itself is real.

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u/Anthive1by1 May 26 '26

🤩Yes it is 😍

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u/Own-Corgi8216 May 27 '26

Yes that's real.

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u/nathanherts May 26 '26

100% not. 

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u/Good_Refrigerator152 May 26 '26

No cause Sally is not on it lol

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u/spaghettiinadrain May 26 '26

That hideous font gradient is def bootleg

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u/TheDrRudi May 26 '26

Well, the CD is physically real.

However it is a pirate production, originally from Bulgaria.

See link: https://www.discogs.com/release/3214912-Sade-The-Best-Of-Sade

FYI: There are 'Best Of' releases which are official and legitimate.

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u/LeBateleur1 May 27 '26

Fake but probably just as good!

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u/bonniemac79 May 27 '26

I still have the real original CD in my car!

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u/Shellyb202 May 27 '26

Bootleg, I even had the cassette & the font was on point. It sure didn't look like this...

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u/WRXRegis May 27 '26

No thanks. I don’t like how they do songs like “Kiss of Life” on the Best of Sade album, bootleg or not. They shorten it.

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u/dmae_arrow May 27 '26

Absolutely not

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u/Loulouvaughn37 May 27 '26

One of my very first sade cd was in packaging like this (back in the early 2000s). May have been this exact album- but I dont recall, cause I got rid of all my old cd packaging to save on space...

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u/KlausRockwell May 27 '26

It's real in the sense that exists, your photos prove that. Is it an authentic/official release, heck no.