Alabama
The Essential Alabama [ Legacy / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] This is a digitally re-mastered, definitive, double disc collection from country band, Alabama - including many of their best-known songs. |
Alan Jackson
The Essential Collection [ Sony / Arista / 2 CD - released 17/Apr/2012 ] A career-spanning, double-disc collection featuring all 34 of Jackson's #1 hits. With 37 songs in all, the project will also include two rare tracks and the single, "As She's Walking Away," with Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson. Alongside Alan's... |
Alan Parsons Project
The Essential (2CD) [ Columbia / Sony Essential / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2011 ] Double CD compilation of English prog-rock giant Alan Parsons. |
Alice in Chains
The Essential Alice in Chains [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2007 ] This double disc set covers all the best tracks from the late Layne Staley and the AiC guys. What a great collection, dude!! |
Aretha Franklin
The Essential Aretha Franklin: The Columbia Years [ Colombia / Legacy / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "This two-disc, 40-track anthology collects the key tracks from Aretha Franklin's stay with Columbia Records in the early '60s, and they catch the young singer and pianist in her first secular pop recordings -- they're not quite soul and they're not... |
Backstreet Boys
The Essential Backstreet Boys [ Sony / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] There was a magic chemistry to the five Backstreet Boys that makes them a worldwide phenomenon which continues to this day. Their successes are legendary, their songs unforgettable. These two Essential CDs prove why it was destiny that A.J., Brian,... |
Barbra Streisand
The Essential Barbra Streisand [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] The Essential Barbra Streisand brings together for the first time all of Streisand's groundbreaking pop hits, classic recordings, and fan favourites on one breathtaking two disc, 40 song collection. Beginning with 1963's "A Sleepin' Bee" and... |
Bill Withers
The Essential Bill Withers [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] The Essential Bill Withers is a 34-track anthology that features all of Withers' notable singles, along with other highlights from the singer's albums for the Sussex and Columbia labels, from 1971's Just as I Am through 1985's Watching You Watching... |
Billy Joel
The Essential Billy Joel [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] This excellent collection features 33 of Billy's all-time greatest songs - including "Piano Man", "The Entertainer", "New York State of Mind", "She's Always a Woman", "Movin' Out", "Just The Way You Are", "Uptown Girl", "Honesty", "We Didn't Start... |
Blue Oyster Cult
The Essential Blue Oyster Cult [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
Bob Dylan
The Essential Bob Dylan (Gold Series) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] This is an updated version of the US Essential title including tracks from his more recent hit albums. This 2014 edition of The Essential Bob Dylan is a much more complete career overview. Includes the Dylan classics Blowin' In The Wind, The... |
Boney M
The Essential Boney M [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] One of the most successful pop groups to emerge from Europe in the 1970s, Boney M have sales of more than 100 million units. Utilising the contemporary studio techniques of the day and coinciding with the disco era, Boney M had a string of hits... |
Boz Scaggs
The Essential (Gold Series) [ Columbia / Legacy Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] The Essential Boz Scaggs collects 32 key tracks - the soundtrack of a life's journey so far by a sophisticated soul singer nonpareil. Guest appearances by: Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Michael McDonald, Phoebe Snow, Donald Fagen and others. |
Britney Spears
The Essential Britney Spears [ Sony / 2 CD - released 31/Oct/2014 ] |
Bruce Springsteen
The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2015 Revised Edition) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] In the decades following his emergence on the national scene in 1975, Bruce Springsteen has proved to be that rarity among popular musicians, an artist who maintained his status as a frontline recording and performing star, consistently selling... |
The Byrds
The Essential Byrds [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] A magnificent career retrospective including 33 tracks and over two hours of digitally re-mastered music. |
Carole King
The Essential Carole King [ Epic / Legacy / Sony / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] 33 of Carole's greatest songs, including "It Might as Well Rain Until September", "I Feel the Earth Move", "You've Got a Friend", "Nightingale", "Now and Forever", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Chains", "You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and... |
Celine Dion
The Essential [ Sony / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
Cheap Trick
The Essential Cheap Trick [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 27/Oct/2006 ] A great 2-disc summary of Cheap Trick's entire career, with songs spanning from their self-titled debut in 1977 through to 2003. |
The Chieftains
The Essential (2CD) [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2007 ] This double disc set features all the hits and best loved songs from Irish folk favourites, The Chieftains. |