The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 is a greatest hits album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 8 November 2006 by Mute Records. The album consists of select Depeche Mode singles from their then-25-year career, as well as the previously unreleased track "Martyr"—recorded during the Playing the Angel sessions—which was released as a single in late October 2006.
The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | 8 November 2006 | |||
Recorded | 1981–2005 | |||
Length | 74:56 | |||
Label | Mute | |||
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Depeche Mode chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Pitchfork | 8.2/10[3] |
The album has sold over one million copies in Europe alone and has been awarded the IFPI Platinum Europe Award.
All tracks are written by Martin L. Gore, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original Album | Length |
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1. | "Personal Jesus" | Violator, 1990 | 3:47 | |
2. | "Just Can't Get Enough" | Vince Clarke | Speak & Spell, 1981 | 3:43 |
3. | "Everything Counts" | Construction Time Again, 1983 | 4:01 | |
4. | "Enjoy the Silence" | Violator | 4:15 | |
5. | "Shake the Disease" | The Singles 81→85, 1985 | 4:52 | |
6. | "See You" | A Broken Frame, 1982 | 3:58 | |
7. | "It's No Good" | Ultra, 1997 | 5:59 | |
8. | "Strangelove" | Music for the Masses, 1987 | 3:47 | |
9. | "Suffer Well" |
| Playing the Angel, 2005 | 3:53 |
10. | "Dream On" | Exciter, 2001 | 3:42 | |
11. | "People Are People" | Some Great Reward, 1984 | 3:46 | |
12. | "Martyr" | previously unreleased | 3:25 | |
13. | "Walking in My Shoes" | Songs of Faith and Devotion, 1993 | 5:01 | |
14. | "I Feel You" | Songs of Faith and Devotion | 4:35 | |
15. | "Precious" | Playing the Angel | 4:09 | |
16. | "Master and Servant" | Some Great Reward | 3:49 | |
17. | "New Life" | Clarke | Speak & Spell | 3:46 |
18. | "Never Let Me Down Again" | Music for the Masses | 4:18 | |
Total length: | 74:56 |
Limited edition copies of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 (LCDMUTEL15) include a bonus DVD of music videos. A few of the videos feature songs that were not on The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1 and a few of the songs on the album are not on the DVD. The cover art has a pink flower rather than the white flower depicted on the cover of the regular CD.[5]
The electronic press kit (EPK) contains commentary on all the singles that made it onto the CD release of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1.
On 16 March 2007, the DVD was released on its own as The Best of Videos Volume 1.[6]
Track listing
* First official release on DVD
** First official release period ("People Are People"'s regular video was not used in the original Some Great Videos release. None of the Exciter videos (or "Enjoy the Silence 04") were publicly released prior to Best of)
Weekly charts edit
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Year-end charts edit
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Argentina (CAPIF)[45] | Gold | 20,000^ |
Belgium (BEA)[46] | Platinum | 50,000* |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[47] | 3× Platinum | 60,000‡ |
France (SNEP)[48] | Gold | 75,000* |
Germany (BVMI)[49] | 7× Gold | 700,000‡ |
Hungary (MAHASZ)[50] | Platinum | 6,000^ |
Ireland (IRMA)[51] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Italy sales in 2006 |
— | 150,000[52] |
Italy (FIMI)[53] sales since 2009 |
Platinum | 60,000* |
Portugal (AFP)[54] | Gold | 10,000^ |
Russia (NFPF)[55] | Platinum | 20,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[56] | Gold | 40,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[57] | Gold | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[58] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
Summaries | ||
Europe (IFPI)[59] | Platinum | 1,000,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Label | Ref. |
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Japan | 8 November 2006 | EMI | [60] |
Germany | 9 November 2006 | [61] | |
France | 13 November 2006 | Labels | [62] |
United Kingdom | Mute | [63] | |
Canada | 14 November 2006 | [64] | |
United States | [65] |