The Best of Led Zeppelin
| The Best of Led Zeppelin | ||||
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| Greatest hits album series by | ||||
| Released | Early Days: 22 November 1999 Latter Days: 21 March 2000 Box set: 19 November 2002 (US) | |||
| Recorded | October 1968 – December 1978 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock, folk rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | Early Days: 1:08:09 Latter Days: 1:06:36 Box set: 2:14:54 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Page | |||
| Led Zeppelin chronology | ||||
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| Early Days: Vol. 1 | ||||
| Latter Days: Vol. 2 | ||||
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
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; 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.) 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. Both Early Days and Early Days and Latter Days were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Both volumes are now out of print, and were replaced with the 2007 two-disc compilation Mothership.