The album contains all ten of Bob Marley's Top 40 hit singles in the UK up to the time, plus three songs from the original Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston in " Stir It Up," " I Shot the Sheriff," and " Get Up, Stand Up," along with the closing song from the album Uprising, " Redemption Song." Of the original tracks, only four date from prior to the Exodus album. Also, as of 31 March 2023, it has spent 1,075 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart-the third longest run in the chart's history. Īs of 4 April 2023, Legend has spent a total of 776 nonconsecutive weeks on the US Billboard 200 albums chart-the second longest run in history.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 46 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", maintaining the ranking in a 2012 revised list, but dropping to number 48 in the 2020 revised list. It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with over 12 million sold in the US, over 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the seventeenth best-selling album ) and an estimated 25 million copies sold globally. It was released in May 1984 by Island Records. Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Chris Blackwell, Errol Brown, Bob Marley, Steve Smith, The Wailers
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