"Things Can Only Get Better (2nd re-issue)" Released: 21 April 1997
The Best of D:Ream was the first official compilation album from Northern Irishpop/dance band D:Ream, issued by Magnet Records label, and distributed by major Warner Bros. Records, with the management of FXU. It was released in May 1997, just after their UK and U.S. Dance Number 1 hit, Things Can Only Get Better, was re-released for the second time, re-entering the UK Top 20 Singles Chart at Number 19. The song received much publicity from the fact that it was later adopted by the UK Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election. The group's record company, in agreement with leader Peter Cunnah, who decided to call it quits with D:Ream, chose to issue this greatest hits collection, instead of their third studio album, which was to be called Heap of Faith, and has since never been released.
The compilation contains 12 tracks taken from their two studio albums, 1993's D:Ream On Volume 1, and 1995's World. Including the re-released "Things Can Only Get Better", the album consists of the seven singles taken from their debut, the three singles from their second album and two more tracks from the latter ("Hold Me Now" and "Heart of Gold") which were never released as singles. This compilation failed to chart in the UK.
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"Things Can Only Get Better" is a song by Northern Irish musical group D:Ream, released as the second single from their debut album, D:Ream On Volume 1. It took several months to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart. Originally a club hit, pop success took much longer for the song—initially, it reached only number 24 on the chart in January 1993. Band member Al Mackenzie left later that year, and remaining member Peter Cunnah took the band in a more pop-friendly direction. "Things Can Only Get Better" was remixed and became a bigger hit, spending four weeks at number one in January 1994. In addition, the song managed to reach the top 10 in eight countries. In the US, it peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The Labour Party used the song as a theme during the party's successful campaign in the general election of 1997.
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"Unforgiven" is a 1993 song by Northern Irish musical group D:Ream, released as the third single from their debut album, D:Ream On Volume 1 (1993). Written by band members Peter Cunnah and Al MacKenzie, it peaked at number 29 in the UK and number ten in Portugal. After the success of the singles "U R the Best Thing" and "Things Can Only Get Better", it was re-released in 1994. A music video was also produced to promote the single. It was later published on YouTube's Vevo channel in November 2018.
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