One Woman: The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album released by American R&B singer Diana Ross on EMI in 1993. The single-disc collection was the alternative to Ross' 1993 four CD box set, Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs, which was a 30th anniversary commemorative of her hit making years in three decades including work with The Supremes. This collection was similar featuring both Supremes hits and solo hits.
It became Ross' best-selling album in the UK selling over 1,200,000 copies certifying the album quadruple platinum there and peaked at number one on the UK album charts for 2 weeks, not in sequential article. The success of this release in the U.K. meant that Diana would embark on her most extensive tour of Great Britain after 30 years of touring in that market since her maiden tour with The Supremes on ""The Motortown Revue"" in 1963. The tour soldout 29 concerts on that continent alone.
After this album's release, Ross was deemed the best-selling female artist in music history by The Guinness Book of Records.
"One Woman" charted across several European territories, as well as, Australia, Japan and other Pan-Asian territories like Singapore and Taiwan. It would also prove to be her most successful compilation in South America.
"One Woman: The Video Collection" topped the video charts simultaneously.
The album had been a global smash warranting "Special Editions" in markets as varied as Singapore, Taiwan, Australia and various parts of Europe. Despite EMI's global success with the album, her domestic label, Motown, would not get around to releasing it until a couple of years later, possibly due to the success of the near Gold boxset, "Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs" from which this was culled.
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