The Very Best of Leo Sayer

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The Very Best of Leo Sayer
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Greatest hits album by
Released23 March 1979 [1]
RecordedVarious years
Genre Soft rock, disco
Label Chrysalis – CDL 1222
Producer Various
Leo Sayer chronology
Leo Sayer
(1978)
The Very Best of Leo Sayer
(1979)
Here
(1979)

The Very Best of Leo Sayer was a greatest hits compilation album released in May 1979. His seventh album, it was in the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart for three weeks, [2] and in Australia for one week. It is his only chart-topper in the UK Albums Chart. [2] It was never released in the United States.

Contents

The album is split with the first side featuring his more recent work with producer Richard Perry and side two featuring his earlier work produced by Adam Faith with David Courtney or Russ Ballard.

Side one has seven of the eight UK singles released from 1976–8 (leaving out the non-charting "There Isn't Anything" and also the US only single "Easy to Love"). Side two features five of the six singles released from 1973–5 (with none-charting debut single "Why Is Everybody Going Home" not included). It also includes two album tracks from 1974's Just a Boy LP; "Train" (which was released as a single in 1979 to promote this album in Australia) and his version of the hit he wrote for Roger Daltrey, "Giving It All Away".

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "When I Need You"
  2. "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
  3. "Raining in My Heart"
  4. "How Much Love"
  5. "Dancing the Night Away"
  6. "Thunder in My Heart"
  7. "I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)"

Side 2

  1. "One Man Band"
  2. "Giving It All Away"
  3. "Train"
  4. "Let It Be"
  5. "Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)"
  6. "Moonlighting"
  7. "The Show Must Go On" [3]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1979–80)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [4] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [5] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [6] 14
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [7] 5
UK Albums (OCC) [8] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1979)Position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [9] 8
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [10] 11

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [11] Gold25,000 [11]
United Kingdom (BPI) [12] Gold100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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