Released in 1994, The Very Best is the best-selling (and highest charting) Marvin Gaye album in the UK – selling over 250,000 copies, peaking at #3 in the UK charts, and receiving a million-plus sales certificate in 2001. The album featured an unreleased track ("
Lucky, Lucky Me") that would also be released as a single.
Released in the US in 2001, the two disc edition is a chronological look back at American
R&B/
soul singer
Marvin Gaye's three decade-plus music career throughout his tenure in
Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s concluding with his final big hit, 1982's "
Sexual Healing" from his brief tenure with
Columbia Records before the singer's death in 1984. Re-released later in 2005 under
Universal Records' Gold series, it has since been certified
gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America.
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
^
abMaia, Mônica (25 December 1995).
"Músicos mortos são campeões de vendagem". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese).
UOL HOST. Retrieved 4 January 2023. A coletânea "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" vendeu cinco milhões de discos no mundo, 21 mil deles, no Brasil. Translation: The compilation "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" sold five million records worldwide, 21,000 of it in Brazil.
Released in 1994, The Very Best is the best-selling (and highest charting) Marvin Gaye album in the UK – selling over 250,000 copies, peaking at #3 in the UK charts, and receiving a million-plus sales certificate in 2001. The album featured an unreleased track ("
Lucky, Lucky Me") that would also be released as a single.
Released in the US in 2001, the two disc edition is a chronological look back at American
R&B/
soul singer
Marvin Gaye's three decade-plus music career throughout his tenure in
Motown Records in the 1960s and 1970s concluding with his final big hit, 1982's "
Sexual Healing" from his brief tenure with
Columbia Records before the singer's death in 1984. Re-released later in 2005 under
Universal Records' Gold series, it has since been certified
gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America.
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
^
abMaia, Mônica (25 December 1995).
"Músicos mortos são campeões de vendagem". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese).
UOL HOST. Retrieved 4 January 2023. A coletânea "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" vendeu cinco milhões de discos no mundo, 21 mil deles, no Brasil. Translation: The compilation "The Very Best of Marvin Gaye" sold five million records worldwide, 21,000 of it in Brazil.