The Essential Toni Braxton

The Essential: Toni Braxton / The Best So Far
Greatest hits album by Toni Braxton
Released	February 20, 2007 April, 2007
Recorded	1990–2005
Genre	R&B
Label	LaFace Records Som Livre (Brazil)
Producer	Babyface Teddy Bishop David Foster Mannie Fresh Royal Garden Irv Gotti Vincent Herbert Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins R. Kelly Klarmann/Weber Frankie Knuckles Keri Lewis Steve Mac The Neptunes L.A. Reid Jazze Pha Tony Rich Chink Santana Daryl Simmons Soulshock & Karlin Junior Vasquez Bryce Wilson
Toni Braxton chronology
Breathe Again: Toni Braxton at Her Best (2005)Breathe Again: Toni Braxton at Her Best2005 The Essential: Toni Braxton/The Best So Far (2007) Playlist: The Very Best of Toni Braxton (2008)Playlist: The Very Best of Toni Braxton2008
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Brazilian cover

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The Essential Toni Braxton is a compilation album by the American recording artist Toni Braxton in Sony BMG's The Essential series. Released in February 2007, it follows the earlier compilations Ultimate Toni Braxton, released in 2003, and Braxton's Platinum & Gold Collection, released in 2004. The Essential is a 2 disc album with thirty-six of Braxton's best songs. It also includes a song done with her sister group The Braxtons, "The Good Life". In Brazil, the album was released under the name The Best So Far with an alternative cover and a different track list.

"The Essential Toni Braxton" became Braxton's second compilation, following 2003's "Ultimate Toni Braxton". The compilation contains 2 discs, with the first containing the majority of her hits, and the second containing non-singles from her previous albums, as well as remixes, collaborations and unreleased tracks. It was released on February 20, 2007 in the United States. In Brazil, the compilation was released with a different name and track list, being titled, "The Best So Far", with 14 tracks, and it was released in April, 2007.

In addition to her previous hits, including "Another Sad Love Song", "Breathe Again", "Un-Break My Heart", "You're Makin' Me High", "He Wasn't Man Enough" and others, the first disc contains "Tell Me", from her 2002 album "More Than a Woman" and "Give U My Heart", a duet with Babyface to the soundtrack of the 1992 film Boomerang. The second disc contains some singles who performed very moderate on charts, such as "Hit the Freeway", many songs from her 1996 album "Secrets", the duet with Il Divo, "The Time of Our Lives", remixes from her remix compilation, "Un-Break My Heart: The Remix Collection", as well as her first single with her sisters, The Braxtons, called "Good Life".

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