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| Released | 23 September 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1978–1996 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 77:53 (single disc CD)[1] 149:40 (2-disc CD) 189:17 (4-disc LP) | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[3] |
Best of the Beast was Iron Maiden's first "best of" album,[4] released in 1996 in three formats: a 34 track (four disc) vinyl, a 27 track (two disc) CD, a 16 track (single disc) CD and MiniDisc. The vinyl edition is, to date, the band's longest record release, running for over three hours.
- ^ Best of the Beast (Media notes). Iron Maiden. EMI. 23 September 1996.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Prato, Greg. Iron Maiden-Best of the Beast at AllMusic. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
- ^ Wall, Mick (2004). Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography (3rd ed.). Sanctuary Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 1-86074-542-3.