The Essential Bruce Springsteen
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| Greatest hits album by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| Released | November 11, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 1972–2002 | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk rock, heartland rock, roots rock | |||
| Length | 2:33:23 3:20:45 (Reissue) |
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| Label | Columbia/Legacy | |||
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| AllMusic |  |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.6/10) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A-) |
| PopMatters | (positive) |
The Essential Bruce Springsteen is a compilation album by Bruce Springsteen, released November 11, 2003. The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Sony BMG (previously Sony Music Entertainment). It includes songs from various Springsteen albums and concerts up to the year 2003.
The third disc includes previously unreleased cuts, B-sides, contributions to soundtracks and benefit albums, covers, and an alternate, "country-blues" acoustic version of "Countin' on a Miracle" from The Rising.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart on November 29, 2003, at number 14, with sales of 90,000 copies. It spent 13 weeks on the chart. The album was awarded gold and platinum records on December 16, 2003, by the RIAA, and has sold 1,079,000 copies in the USA. as of August 2013.The Essential Bruce Springsteen also reached #15 on the UK Albums Chart in 2013. The album was re-released with an updated track list in October 2015.
The album received general acclaim from fans and music critics, who appreciated its captivation of Springsteen's most recognizable hits throughout his career and called it "a better compilation album than Greatest Hits", which was released in 1995.
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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