The Best of Led Zeppelin

The Best of Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin dressed as astronauts
Greatest hits album series by
Led Zeppelin
ReleasedEarly Days: 22 November 1999 (1999-11-22)
Latter Days: 21 March 2000 (2000-03-21)
Box set: 19 November 2002 (2002-11-19) (US)
RecordedOctober 1968 – December 1978
GenreHard rock, blues rock, folk rock, heavy metal
LengthEarly Days: 1:08:09
Latter Days: 1:06:36
Box set: 2:14:54
LabelAtlantic
ProducerJimmy Page
Led Zeppelin chronology
BBC Sessions
(1997) 		The Best of Led Zeppelin
(1999–2000) 		Led Zeppelin DVD
(2003)
Early Days: Vol. 1
Led Zeppelin dressed as astronauts
Latter Days: Vol. 2
Led Zeppelin dressed as astronauts
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Sputnikmusic[3]

The Best of Led Zeppelin is a two-volume best-of compilation album series by English rock group Led Zeppelin; containing selections from all of the band's studio albums it was released by Atlantic Records. Volume one, Early Days was released on November 22, 1999;[4] volume two, Latter Days, was released on March 21, 2000. Early Days is composed of tracks from the period in the band's history dating 1968 to 1971 and doesn't use a traditional "greatest hits" format as Led Zeppelin largely avoided single releases. (The band never had a Billboard No. 1 single.[5]) Latter Days covered 1973 to 1979. Early Days debuted at #71 on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart and Latter Days debuted at #81. A combined disc set, called Early Days and Latter Days, was released on November 19, 2002 in the United States and on February 24, 2003 in the United Kingdom.[6] Both Early Days and Early Days and Latter Days were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[7]

Both volumes are now out of print, and were replaced with the 2007 two-disc compilation Mothership.

  1. ^ The Best of Led Zeppelin at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ "Led Zeppelin – Early Days/Latter Days (album review) | Sputnikmusic". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  4. ^ "BPI".
  5. ^ "Led Zeppelin". Billboard.com. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  6. ^ "BPI".
  7. ^ "American album certifications – Led Zeppelin – Early Days". Recording Industry Association of America.