Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by the German musical project Enigma, released on 8 October 2001 by Virgin Records. The album, along with Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection brings a close to Michael Cretu's first chapter of Enigma.

It contains most of Enigma's singles, and selected album tracks, from 1990 to 2001. Three tracks are from Enigma's debut album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), four tracks are from The Cross of Changes (1993), four tracks are from Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! (1996), five tracks are from The Screen Behind the Mirror (2000), and the album also features a new single "Turn Around" and its intro "The Landing".

Track listing

  1. "The Landing" <small>(Michael Cretu)</small> – 1:04
  2. "Turn Around" <small>(Cretu, Jens Gad)</small> – 3:51
  3. "Gravity of Love" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 3:59
  4. "T.N.T. for the Brain" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 5:18
  5. "Modern Crusaders" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 3:53
  6. "Shadows in Silence" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 4:19
  7. "Return to Innocence" <small>(Curly M.C., Kuo Ying-nan, Kuo Hsiu-chu)</small> – 4:15
  8. "I Love You ... I'll Kill You" <small>(Curly, David Fairstein)</small> – 8:01
  9. "Principles of Lust" <small>(Curly)</small> – 3:08
  10. "Sadeness (Part I)" <small>(Curly, F. Gregorian, Fairstein)</small> – 4:15
  11. "Silence Must Be Heard" <small>(Cretu, Gad)</small> – 4:46
  12. "Smell of Desire" <small>(Cretu, Fairstein)</small> – 4:32
  13. "Mea Culpa" <small>(Curly, Fairstein)</small> – 4:31
  14. "Push the Limits" <small>(Cretu, Gad)</small> – 3:48
  15. "Beyond the Invisible" <small>(Cretu, Fairstein)</small> – 4:50
  16. "Age of Loneliness" <small>(Curly)</small> – 4:10
  17. "Morphing Thru Time" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 5:26
  18. "The Cross of Changes" <small>(Cretu)</small> – 2:15

Charts

Weekly charts

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! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)

| 24

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! scope="row"| European Albums (Music & Media)

| 7

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! scope="row"| Greek International Albums (IFPI)

| 1

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! scope="row"| Portuguese Albums (AFP)

| 3

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! scope="row"| Spanish Albums (AFYVE)

| 21

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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200

| 29

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Year-end charts

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! scope="row"| Danish Albums (Hitlisten)

| 95

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! scope="row"| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)

| 82

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! scope="row"| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)

| 95

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! scope="row"| Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)

| 114

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Certifications

References