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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(88/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Billboard	(favorable)^[1]
Drowned in Sound	(6/10)^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A−^[4]
NME	(9/10)^[5]
Pitchfork Media	(8.6/10)^[6]
Q	^[7]
Robert Christgau	A−^[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]
Wall of Sound	(86/100)^[10]

Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food Records. It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album includes 17 of Blur's 23 singles from 1990 to 2000, plus non-single, "This Is a Low". A special edition of the CD version included a live CD. The DVD/VHS version contains the videos of Blur's first 22 singles. The album, which has had enduring sales, hit number 3 in the band's native UK in the autumn of 2000, while denting the US charts at number 186. The cover is by artist Julian Opie. The painting of this Blur album can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. The album's cover bears some similarity to that of Queen's 1982 Hot Space.

The album received a positive critical response. Of the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator website Metacritic, the album holds an overall approval rating of 88%.^[1]

On the chart ending 7 March 2009, it was reported by Music Week that the album passed over one million unit sales in the United Kingdom.

A proposed title for the album was Best Blur Album in the World Ever,^[11] in reference to the compilation album series The Best... Album in the World...Ever! (which often contained songs by Blur).

Track listing

Disc one

All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree.

No.	Title	Original album	Length
1.	"Beetlebum"	Blur, 1997	5:05
2.	"Song 2"	Blur	2:02
3.	"There's No Other Way" (Edit)	Leisure, 1991	3:14
4.	"The Universal"	The Great Escape, 1995	4:00
5.	"Coffee & TV" (Edit)	13, 1999	5:18
6.	"Parklife"	Parklife, 1994	3:07
7.	"End of a Century"	Parklife	2:47
8.	"No Distance Left to Run"	13	3:26
9.	"Tender"	13	7:41
10.	"Girls & Boys (Edi" (Edit)	Parklife	4:18
11.	"Charmless Man"	The Great Escape	3:33
12.	"She's So High" (Edit)	Leisure	3:49
13.	"Country House"	The Great Escape	3:57
14.	"To the End" (Edit)	Parklife	3:51
15.	"On Your Own" (Edit)	Blur	4:27
16.	"This Is a Low"	Parklife	5:02
17.	"For Tomorrow" (Visit to Primrose Hill Extended version)	original, shorter version on Modern Life is Rubbish, 1993	6:02
18.	"Music Is My Radar"	Previously unreleased	5:29

Disc two (Limited Edition)

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 11 December 1999.

"She's So High" – 5:24
"Girls & Boys" – 4:21
"To The End" – 4:08
"End of a Century" – 3:00
"Stereotypes" – 3:27
"Charmless Man" – 3:31
"Beetlebum" – 6:09
"M.O.R." – 3:09
"Tender" – 6:20
"No Distance Left to Run" – 4:09

VHS/DVD

Both CDs and the DVD were released as a box set in the United States in November 2007, but this release has since been removed from distribution.^[12]

Personnel

Blur

Damon Albarn – Lead vocals, keyboards, guitar
Graham Coxon – Guitar, backing vocals, vocals on "Coffee and TV", "Tender"
Alex James – Bass-guitar, backing vocals
Dave Rowntree – Drums

with

Blur – Producer
Jack Clark – Mixing Assistant
Al Clay – Mixing
Jason Cox – Engineer
Tom Girling – Assistant Producer
Stephen Hague – Producer, Engineer
Ben Hillier – Producer, Mixing
Jeff Knowler – Assistant Engineer
Damian LeGassick – Programming
Steve Lovell – Producer
Gerard Navarro – Assistant Engineer
William Orbit – Producer, Engineer
Jeremy Plumb – Art Direction, Design
Steve Power – Producer
Iain Roberton – Assistant Engineer
Andy Ross – Engineer
John Smith – Producer, Engineer
Sean Spuehler – Programming
Stephen Street – Producer, Engineer
Greg Williams – Photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart^[13]	23
Austrian Albums Chart^[14]	25
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)^[15]	29
Canadian Albums Chart	14
Danish Albums Chart^[15]	29
European Albums Chart^[16]	9
French Albums Chart^[17]	8
German Albums Chart^[18]	35
Irish Albums Chart^[19]	3
Italian Albums Chart^[20]	15
Japanese Albums Chart^[21]	20
New Zealand Albums Chart^[22]	6
Norwegian Albums Chart^[23]	13
Swedish Albums Chart^[24]	22
Swiss Albums Chart^[25]	31
UK Albums Chart^[26]	3
US Billboard 200^[27]	186

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Critic Reviews for The Best of Blur". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Blur: The Best Of at AllMusic
^ Drowned in Sound review
^ Entertainment Weekly review
^ NME review
^ Pitchfork Media review
^ Q, Nov 2000 p.120
^ Robert Christgau review
^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 89. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ Wall of Sound review
^ "Blur: The Best Of – album info". Vblurpage.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^ Amazon.com details for "Blur: The Best Of"
^ "Australian chart positions". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Austrian chart positions". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Blur&titel=The+Best+Of&cat=a
^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0BAEAAAAMBAJ&lr=&rview=1
^ http://www.infodisc.fr/Albums_Detail.php
^ "German album positions". musicline.de. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&rview=1&id=0BAEAAAAMBAJ&q=blur#v=snippet&q=blur&f=false
^ http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1995a.htm
^ "ブラーのCDアルバムランキング". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved 16 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
^ "New Zealand chart positions". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Norwegian chart positions". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Swedish chart positions". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Swiss chart positions". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "British chart positions". chartstats.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
^ "Blur Album & Song Chart History". billboard.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

External links

Blur: The Best Of at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
Soundtrack of The Best of Blur at IMDb
Blur: The Best Of at Metacritic

[Meta-1] "Critic Reviews for The Best of Blur". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

[2] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Blur: The Best Of at AllMusic

[3] Drowned in Sound review

[4] Entertainment Weekly review

[5] NME review

[6] Pitchfork Media review

[7] Q, Nov 2000 p.120

[8] Robert Christgau review

[9] Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 89. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[10] Wall of Sound review

[11] "Blur: The Best Of – album info". Vblurpage.com. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

[12] Amazon.com details for "Blur: The Best Of"

[AUS-13] "Australian chart positions". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[AUT-14] "Austrian chart positions". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[swisscharts.com-15] ttp://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Blur&titel=The+Best+Of&cat=a

[16] ttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0BAEAAAAMBAJ&lr=&rview=1

[17] ttp://www.infodisc.fr/Albums_Detail.php

[GER-18] "German album positions". musicline.de. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[19] ttp://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&rview=1&id=0BAEAAAAMBAJ&q=blur#v=snippet&q=blur&f=false

[20] ttp://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1995a.htm

[JPN-21] "ブラーのCDアルバムランキング". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved 16 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

[NZL-22] "New Zealand chart positions". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[NOR-23] "Norwegian chart positions". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[SWE-24] "Swedish chart positions". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[CHE-25] "Swiss chart positions". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[UK_Charts-26] "British chart positions". chartstats.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

[billboard-27] "Blur Album & Song Chart History". billboard.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.

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