The Very Best | |
Type: | greatest |
Artist: | INXS |
Cover: | INXS - The Very Best.png |
Released: | 21 October 2011 |
Recorded: | 1980–2011 |
Genre: | |
Length: | 1:16:26 |
Label: | Universal Music Australia |
Prev Title: | Original Sin |
Prev Year: | 2010 |
Next Title: | Live at Wembley Stadium 1991 |
Next Year: | 2014 |
The Very Best is a greatest hits album released by Australian band INXS in 2011. It initially peaked at number 39 in Australia.
Following the screening of , an Australian miniseries about INXS that commenced on 9 February 2014 on the Seven Network,[1] the album re-entered the charts, peaking at number one.[2] When the miniseries screened in New Zealand in August 2014, the album also charted, similarly peaking at number one.[3]
The album was released in three formats; a single-disc version, a double-disc version and a double-disc version with a DVD.[4] The first disc of the deluxe edition is the same as the standard edition.
The Very Best debuted and peaked at number 39 in Australia on 6 November 2011. When promotion began for the mini-series, it re-entered the charts at number 13 on 10 November 2013. With the airing on the mini-series in February 2014, the album slowly rose to number-one on 17 February 2014.[5] It became the first INXS "best of" album to reach number-one in Australia.[6]
The Very Best took 77 weeks before it reached number-one and holds the record for the longest number of weeks to rise to number one, in ARIA chart history.[7]
The Very Best was the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian artist in 2014 and the fourth overall.[8]
Year | Position | ||
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[9] | 2013 | 44 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[10] | 2014 | 4 | |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[11] | 17 | ||
Australian Albums (ARIA)[12] | 2015 | 29 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[13] | 2016 | 45 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[14] | 2017 | 24 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] | 2018 | 35 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[16] | 2019 | 28 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[17] | 2020 | 34 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[18] | 2021 | 35 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[19] | 2022 | 40 | |
Australian Albums (ARIA)[20] | 2023 | 58 |
Position | ||
Australian Albums (ARIA)[21] | 11 | |
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Australian Artist Albums (ARIA) | 1 |