The Best of Van Morrison
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| Greatest hits album by Van Morrison | ||||
| Released | January 1990 | |||
| Length | 75:54 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Bert Berns, Lewis Merenstein, Van Morrison, Dick Rowe, Ted Templeman | |||
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| The Village Voice | A |
The Best of Van Morrison is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It compiles songs spanning 25 years of his recording career. Released in 1990 by Polydor Records, the album was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the best-selling records of the 1990s and helping revive Morrison's mainstream popularity. Its success encouraged him to release a second and third greatest hits volume in 1993 and 2007, respectively. The album remains Morrison's best-seller.
The Best of Van Morrison was Morrison's first greatest hits album and featured songs that were compiled from 25 years of material. including "Wonderful Remark", a song which first appeared on the soundtrack to the 1983 film The King of Comedy. The album became one of the best-selling records of the 1990s, spending a year and a half on the UK charts, helping Morrison regain his commercial popularity during the decade. It also debuted at number one in Australia on the ARIA Albums Chart. In the United States, the album never reached the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 but remained on the chart for more than four-and-a-half years. In 2002, the album was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having shipped four million copies in the US. Morrison was reluctant at first to have a greatest hits album released, although its success encouraged him to personally select tracks for the second and third volumes in 1993 and 2007, respectively. According to Andrew Gilstrap from PopMatters:
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