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Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was released in May 1984 by Island Records. It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with over 12 million sold in the US, over 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the seventeenth best-selling album^[2]) and an estimated 25 million copies sold globally.^[3][4][5] In 2003, the album was ranked number 46 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, maintaining the ranking in a 2012 revised list,^[6] but dropping to number 48 in the 2020 revised list.^[7]

As of 14 February 2023, Legend has spent a total of 769 nonconsecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart—the second longest run in history.^[8][9] Also, as of 10 February 2023, it has spent 1,068 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart—the third longest run in the chart’s history.^[3][10]

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