Legend

Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was launched in Could 1984 by Island Data. It’s a biggest hits assortment of singles in its unique vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with over 12 million bought within the US, over 3.3 million within the UK (the place it’s the seventeenth best-selling album^[1]) and an estimated 25 million copies bought globally.^[2]^[3]^[4] In 2003, the album was ranked quantity 46 in Rolling Stone journal’s checklist of the “500 Biggest Albums of All Time”, sustaining the rating in a 2012 revised checklist,^[5] however dropping to quantity 48 within the 2020 revised checklist.^[6]

As of 1 March 2022, Legend has spent a complete of 719 nonconsecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart—the second longest run in historical past.^[7]^[8] Additionally, as of 25 February 2022, it has spent 1,018 weeks within the high 100 of the UK Albums Chart—the third longest run within the chart’s historical past.^[2]^[9]

Content material

The album accommodates all ten of Bob Marley’s Prime 40 hit singles within the UK as much as the time,^[10] plus three songs from the unique Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston in “Stir It Up,” “I Shot the Sheriff,” and “Get Up, Stand Up,” together with the closing tune from the album Rebellion, “Redemption Tune.” Of the unique tracks, solely 4 date from previous to the Exodus album.^{[citation needed]}

The cassette tape launch of the album featured two further songs, “Punky Reggae Occasion,” the B-side to the “Jamming” single, and “Simple Skanking” from the Kaya album. A second era compact disc remastered by Barry Diament appeared in 1990 on the Tuff Gong label. Though the disc consists of the identical 14 songs, the tracks are of their unique album lengths quite than the edited variations for single launch.^{[citation needed]}

On 12 February 2002, the expanded 14-track version with songs at album lengths had been remastered for compact disc with a bonus disc consisting of 1984-vintage remixes for prolonged dance membership singles and dub variations. In 2004, the Legend double-disc deluxe version was reissued with the music DVD of the identical title within the sound + imaginative and prescient deluxe version. In 2010, Legend was made accessible as downloadable content material for Rock Band. Nonetheless, it was launched with out “Get Up, Stand Up”, which was later included on Rock Band 3. In June 2012, a excessive constancy audiophile model of the album was launched on HDtracks in 96 kHz/24bit and 192 kHz/24bit resolutions.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Skilled scores
Assessment scores
Supply	Score
AllMusic	^[11]
Robert Christgau	A^[12]
Q	^[13]
Sputnikmusic	^[14]

Legend has peaked at quantity 5 on the Billboard 200, making it Marley’s highest-charting album within the US. It additionally holds the excellence of being the second longest-charting album within the historical past of Billboard journal. Combining its chart life on the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Catalog Albums charts, Legend has had a chart run of 2165 nonconsecutive weeks,^[15] surpassed solely by Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Aspect of the Moon at 2166 nonconsecutive weeks.^[16] As of the Billboard concern dated 5 March 2022, the album has charted on the Billboard 200 for 719 nonconsecutive weeks.^[7] As of December 2017, Legend has bought 12.3 million copies within the US since 1991 when SoundScan began monitoring album gross sales, making it the ninth best-selling album of the Nielsen SoundScan period. The RIAA has licensed Legend for promoting 15 million copies, a complete that features purchases earlier than 1991.^[17]^[18]

In the UK, Legend has been licensed 13× Platinum, and is the sixteenth best-selling album in that nation of all time,^[19]^[20] with gross sales of over 3,380,000 as of July 2016.^[21]

As of April 2012, the album has bought greater than 25 million copies worldwide.^[4]

Regardless of its typically constructive reception, Legend has been criticized for being a intentionally inoffensive number of Marley’s much less political music, shorn of any radicalism which may harm gross sales.^[22] In 2014 within the Phoenix New Instances, David Accomazzo wrote “Dave Robinson, who constructed the tracklist for Legend, [said that] the tracklist for Legend intentionally was designed to attraction to white audiences. Island Data had seen Marley as a political revolutionary, and Robinson noticed this angle as damaging to Marley’s backside line. So he constructed a greatest-hits album that confirmed only one face of the Marley prism, the facet he deemed most sellable to the suburbs. […] In the event you’re searching for mass-market attraction to secular-progressive America, you do not embody songs that invoke collective guilt over the slave commerce, nor do you deal with the inconvenient fact that the bucolic Jamaican life-style of reggae, sandy seashores, and marijuana embraced by tens of millions of faculty freshmen, exists solely due to the brutal slave commerce. […] the songs on Legend supply only a temporary glimpse into his music. The definitive album of crucial reggae singer of all time is a hodgepodge assortment of affection songs, feel-good sentiment, and mere hints of the fiery activist whose politics drew bullets within the ’70s.”^[23] Vivien Goldman wrote in 2015, “when he does get performed on the radio now, it is the mellow songs, not the indignant songs, that get heard – those which have been compiled on albums resembling Legend.”^[24]

Monitor listings

When first launched within the US in 1984, pressings contained remixes of “No Lady, No Cry,” “Buffalo Soldier,” “Ready In Useless,” “Exodus” and “Jammin’,” executed in 1984 by Eric Thorngren. (Worldwide pressings substituted the remixes for both album variations or 7″ edits.) Two variations of the CD had been launched in Europe in 1984; one used the identical mastering because the US urgent, the opposite (mastered by Rob Fabroni and Barry Diament) used unique full size variations for all of the tracks. Pressings from 1986 on used the worldwide model of the discharge till 2002, when a two-disc deluxe model launched by Common changed all tracks with their respective album variations (aside from “No Lady, No Cry,” which is the complete size model from the “Dwell!” album) and included the 2 further tracks from the cassette launch as bonus tracks. That model was launched individually as a part of “The Definitive Remasters” collection. When monitor No. 13 [Exodus, released on the album “Exodus” by Bob Marley & The Wailers in 1977 by Tuff Gong/Island] begins, the noise on the ending of Bob Marley’s “Fulfill My Soul” [released on the album “Kaya” by Bob Marley & The Wailers in 1978 by Tuff Gong/Island] performs in the beginning.

Authentic 1984 US album

Aspect one
No.	Title	Author(s)	Authentic launch	Size
1.	“Is This Love”	Bob Marley	Kaya (1978)	3:52
2.	“No Lady, No Cry” (Dwell)	Vincent Ford	Dwell! (1975)	4:05
3.	“Might You Be Liked” (7″ Edit)	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:33
4.	“Three Little Birds”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	2:56
5.	“Buffalo Soldier” (Remix)	Marley, Noel Williams	Confrontation (1983)	5:24
6.	“Get Up, Stand Up”	Marley, Peter Tosh	Burnin’ (1973)	3:17
7.	“Stir It Up” (Edit)	Marley	Catch a Hearth (1973)	3:38

Aspect two
No.	Title	Author(s)	Authentic launch	Size
1.	“One Love/Folks Get Prepared”	Marley, Curtis Mayfield	Exodus (1977)	2:52
2.	“I Shot the Sheriff” (Edit)	Marley	Burnin’ (1973)	3:46
3.	“Ready in Useless” (Remix)	Marley	Exodus (1977)	4:10
4.	“Redemption Tune”	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:48
5.	“Fulfill My Soul” (7″ Edit)	Marley	Kaya (1978)	3:45
6.	“Exodus” (Remix)	Marley	Exodus (1977)	5:24
7.	“Jamming” (Remix)	Marley	Exodus (1977)	3:17

Authentic compact disc model

No.	Title	Author(s)	Authentic launch	Size
1.	“Is This Love”	Bob Marley	Kaya (1978)	3:50
2.	“No Lady, No Cry” (Dwell)	Marley, Vincent Ford	Dwell! (1975)	7:08
3.	“Might You Be Liked”	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:57
4.	“Three Little Birds”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	3:00
5.	“Buffalo Soldier” (7″ Edit)	Marley, Noel Williams	Confrontation (1983)	2:33
6.	“Get Up, Stand Up”	Marley, Peter Tosh	Burnin’ (1973)	3:17
7.	“Stir It Up” (Edit)	Marley	Catch a Hearth (1973)	3:38
8.	“One Love/Folks Get Prepared”	Marley, Curtis Mayfield	Exodus (1977)	2:52
9.	“I Shot the Sheriff” (Edit)	Marley	Burnin’ (1973)	3:46
10.	“Ready in Useless”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	4:16
11.	“Redemption Tune”	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:48
12.	“Fulfill My Soul”	Marley	Kaya (1978)	4:30
13.	“Exodus” (7″ Edit)	Marley	Exodus (1977)	4:16
14.	“Jamming” (7″ Edit)	Marley	Exodus (1977)	3:17

2002 Deluxe version

Disc one: *Legend* remastered
No.	Title	Author(s)	Authentic launch	Size
1.	“Is This Love”	Bob Marley	Kaya (1978)	3:50
2.	“No Lady, No Cry” (Dwell)	Marley, Vincent Ford	Dwell! (1975)	7:08
3.	“Might You Be Liked”	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:57
4.	“Three Little Birds”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	3:00
5.	“Buffalo Soldier”	Marley, Noel Williams	Confrontation (1983)	4:18
6.	“Get Up, Stand Up”	Marley, Peter Tosh	Burnin’ (1973)	3:17
7.	“Stir It Up”	Marley	Catch a Hearth (1973)	5:30
8.	“Simple Skanking” (Bonus Monitor)	Marley	Kaya (1978)	2:57
9.	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared”	Marley, Curtis Mayfield	Exodus (1977)	2:52
10.	“I Shot the Sheriff”	Marley	Burnin’ (1973)	4:40
11.	“Ready in Useless”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	4:16
12.	“Redemption Tune”	Marley	Rebellion (1980)	3:48
13.	“Fulfill My Soul”	Marley	Kaya (1978)	4:31
14.	“Exodus”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	7:40
15.	“Jamming”	Marley	Exodus (1977)	3:31
16.	“Punky Reggae Occasion” (Bonus Monitor)	Marley, Lee Perry	Exodus (1977)	6:52

Disc two: The *Legend* remixes
No.	Title	Authentic launch	Size
1.	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared” (Prolonged Model, remixed by Julian Mendelsohn)	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared” UK 1984 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 169)	6:59
2.	“Ready in Useless” (Remixed by Julian Mendelsohn)	“Ready in Useless” UK 1984 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 180)	5:54
3.	“Jamming” (Remixed by Paul “Groucho” Smykle)	“Might You Be Liked” UK 1985 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 210)	5:33
4.	“Three Little Birds / Three Little Birds (Dub Model)” (Remixed by Julian Mendelsohn)	“Three Little Birds” UK 1985 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 236)	5:18
5.	“Might You Be Liked” (remixed by Errol Brown and Alex Sadkin)	“Might You Be Liked” UK 1985 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 210)	5:25
6.	“No Lady No Cry” (Remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	“Might You Be Liked” UK 1985 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 210)	4:10
7.	“Coming in from the Chilly” (remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	“Might You Be Liked” UK 1985 12″ (cat. no. 12IS 210)	5:42
8.	“Buffalo Soldier” (Remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	Legend (1984, U.S. model)	2:52
9.	“Jamming” (Remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	Legend (1984, U.S, model)	3:20
10.	“Ready in Useless” (remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	Legend (1984, U.S. model)	4:11
11.	“Exodus” (Remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	Legend (1984, U.S. model)	8:48
12.	“Vigorous Up Your self” (Remixed by Eric “E.T.” Thorngren)	beforehand unreleased	5:16
13.	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared” (Dub Model, Remixed by Godwin Logie)	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared” UK 1984 12″ (cat. no. 12 ISX 169)	4:55

Legend: Remixed (2013)

No.	Title	Size
1.	“Ready in Useless” (Jim James Remix)	5:04
2.	“Stir It Up” (Ziggy Marley Remix)	3:34
3.	“Three Little Birds” (Stephen Marley and Jason Bentley Remix)	3:00
4.	“Might You Be Liked” (RAC Remix)	4:04
5.	“No Lady, No Cry” (Stephen Marley Remix)	4:41
6.	“Get Up Stand Up” (Thievery Company Remix)	4:21
7.	“Fulfill My Soul” (Beats Vintage Remix)	6:11
8.	“I Shot the Sheriff” (Roni Measurement Remix)	5:55
9.	“Exodus” (Fairly Lights Remix)	4:16
10.	“Simple Skanking” (Stephen Marley Remix)	4:56
11.	“One Love / Folks Get Prepared” (Photek Remix)	4:57
12.	“Redemption Tune” (Ziggy Marley Remix)	3:54
13.	“Is This Love” (Jason Bentley Remix)	6:10
14.	“Jamming” (Nickodemus and Zeb Remix)	4:53
15.	“Punky Reggae Occasion” (Z-Journey that includes Lee “Scratch” Perry Remix)	5:34
16.	“Buffalo Soldier” (Stephen Marley Remix)	5:15

thirtieth anniversary version (2014)

In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary, the compilation was re-released (as its “The Definitive Remasters” kind) in two codecs:

A tri-color (pink, yellow, inexperienced) double 180g vinyl set
A CD/Blu-ray 5.1 audio set; the Blu-ray disc accommodates the studio model of “No Lady, No Cry” and beforehand unheard alternate takes of “Simple Skanking” and “Punky Reggae Occasion.”^[25]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1984–2021)	Peak place
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[26]	14
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[27]	5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[28]	14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[29]	6
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[30]	23
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[31] Legend: Remixed	11
Dutch Albums (Album Prime 100)^[32]	1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[33]	11
French Albums (SNEP)^[34]	67
German Albums (Offizielle Prime 100)^[35]	11
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[36]	18
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[37]	35
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[38]	1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[39]	8
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[40]	41
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[41]	10
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[42]	23
UK Albums (OCC)^[43]	1
US Billboard 200^[44]	5
US Digital Albums (Billboard)^[45]	3
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[46]	34
US Reggae Albums (Billboard)^[47]	1
US Prime Catalog Albums (Billboard)^[48]	1
US R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums (Billboard)^[49]	1

12 months-end charts

Chart (1984)	Place
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[50]	18
Dutch Albums (Album Prime 100)^[51]	13
German Albums (Offizielle Prime 100)^[52]	57
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[53]	9
UK Albums (OCC)^[54]	3
Chart (1991)	Place
Dutch Albums (Album Prime 100)^[55]	7
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[56]	41
Chart (1994)	Place
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[57]	49
Chart (1995)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[58]	85
Chart (1997)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[59]	75
Chart (1999)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[60]	92
Chart (2000)	Place
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[61]	89
UK Albums (OCC)^[62]	76
Chart (2003)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[63]	130
Chart (2007)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[64]	174
Chart (2008)	Place
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[65]	49
UK Albums (OCC)^[66]	106
Chart (2009)	Place
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[67]	94
UK Albums (OCC)^[68]	119
Chart (2010)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[69]	195
US Billboard 200^[70]	145
Chart (2011)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[71]	35
UK Albums (OCC)^[72]	189
US Billboard 200^[73]	149
Chart (2012)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[74]	114
US Billboard 200^[75]	128
Chart (2013)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[76]	94
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[77]	156
UK Albums (OCC)^[78]	126
US Billboard 200^[79]	112
Chart (2014)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[80]	135
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[81]	162
US Billboard 200^[82]	77
Chart (2015)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[83]	107
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[84]	165
Dutch Albums (Album Prime 100)^[85]	90
US Billboard 200^[86]	70
Chart (2016)	Place
Dutch Albums (Album Prime 100)^[87]	86
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[88]	44
UK Albums (OCC)^[89]	31
US Billboard 200^[90]	81
Chart (2017)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[91]	38
US Billboard 200^[92]	73
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[93]	47
Chart (2018)	Place
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[94]	39
UK Albums (OCC)^[95]	38
US Billboard 200^[96]	78
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[97]	46
Chart (2019)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[98]	86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[99]	104
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[100]	40
UK Albums (OCC)^[101]	48
US Billboard 200^[102]	61
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[103]	32
Chart (2020)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[104]	126
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[105]	141
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[106]	33
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[107]	16
UK Albums (OCC)^[108]	21
US Billboard 200^[109]	60
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[110]	36
Chart (2021)	Place
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[111]	130
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[112]	138
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[113]	26
UK Albums (OCC)^[114]	30
US Billboard 200^[115]	60
US Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[116]	32

Decade-end charts

Chart (2010–2019)	Place
UK Albums (OCC)^[117]	47
US Billboard 200^[118]	144

Certifications

Album


Area	Certification	Licensed items/gross sales
Argentina (CAPIF)^[119]	4× Platinum	240,000^{^}
Australia (ARIA)^[120]	4× Platinum	280,000^{^}
Austria (IFPI Austria)^[121]	2× Platinum	100,000^*
Belgium (BEA)^[122]	4× Platinum	200,000^*
Canada (Music Canada)^[123]	2× Platinum	200,000^{^}
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)^[124]	Gold	36,703^[124]
France (SNEP)^[125]	Diamond	1,000,000^*
Germany (BVMI)^[126]	Platinum	500,000^{^}
Italy (FIMI)^[127] gross sales since 2009	2× Platinum	100,000
Netherlands (NVPI)^[128]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[129]	20× Platinum	300,000^{^}
Norway (IFPI Norway)^[130]	Gold	25,000^*
Poland (ZPAV)^[131]	Gold	50,000^*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)^[132]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
Sweden (GLF)^[133]	Gold	50,000^{^}
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)^[134]	3× Platinum	150,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[135]	13× Platinum	3,900,000
United States (RIAA)^[136]	15× Platinum	15,000,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[137] Bob Marley: The Legend Dwell	Gold	500,000^{^}
Summaries
Worldwide	—	25,000,000^[4]
^* Gross sales figures based mostly on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based mostly on certification alone. Gross sales+streaming figures based mostly on certification alone.

Video

Gross sales certifications for *Legend*
Area	Certification	Licensed items/gross sales
Argentina (CAPIF)^[138]	8× Platinum	64,000^{^}
Australia (ARIA)^[139]	Platinum	15,000^{^}
France (SNEP)^[140]	Platinum	20,000^*
Germany (BVMI)^[141]	Gold	25,000^{^}
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[142]	2× Platinum	10,000^{^}
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)^[143]	Gold	3,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[144]	Gold	25,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[145]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
^* Gross sales figures based mostly on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based mostly on certification alone.

See additionally

Checklist of best-selling albums
Checklist of best-selling albums in France
Checklist of best-selling albums in New Zealand
Checklist of best-selling albums in the UK
Checklist of best-selling albums in the US