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The Best of Nelly Furtado is a greatest hits album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. The album was first released on 12 November 2010.[1] The album includes all of Furtado's biggest hits, as well as songs she is featured in and three new songs: "Night Is Young", "Stars" and "Girlfriend in the City". It was released in standard, deluxe and super deluxe editions. The album's track listing and artwork were revealed on 14 October 2010.[2]

The Best of Nelly Furtado
Greatest hits album by Nelly Furtado
Released	12 November 2010
Recorded	1999–2010
Studio	The Gymnasium Iguana Recording Rumblecone Studios The Orange Lounge (Toronto, Canada) The Gymnasium 4th Street Recording The Chill Building (Santa Monica, California) Track Record Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California) Can-Am Studios (Tarzana, California) Larrabee East La Casa Studios (Los Angeles, California) The Hit Factory Instrument Zoo (Miami, Florida) Metrophonic Studios State of the Ark Studios (London, England)
Length	70:33
Language	English Portuguese Spanish
Label	Geffen
Producer	James Bryan Julio Reyes Copello Danja Gerald Eaton Hans Ebert David Foster Nelly Furtado Humberto Gatica Kamal Gray Juanes StayBent Krunk-a-Delic Lil' Jaz Lester Mendez Rick Nowels Andy Rogers Salaamremi.com Gustavo Santaolalla Mark Taylor Tiesto Timbaland Brian West
Nelly Furtado chronology
Mi Plan Remixes (2010) The Best of Nelly Furtado (2010) The Spirit Indestructible (2012)
Singles from The Best of Nelly Furtado
"Night Is Young" Released: 12 October 2010

Content

Talking about how she picked the new songs to be on the greatest hits Furtado said, "The way I picked the new songs for Best of Nelly Furtado was I was just coming off my Latin American tour for Mi Plan and two of my songs got leaked on the internet. Somebody in Eastern Europe or something leaked the songs on the internet. One song was "Night Is Young" and the other song was "Girlfriend In The City", but they were kind of horrible versions that weren’t even finished and not mixed. So I thought okay, a lot of my fans have heard these new songs anyway in their rough version, I might as well finish them and put them out properly on the greatest hits album. It kind of seemed like the natural choice. And then the third selection is "Stars", which is a song Lester Mendez and I wrote a couple years ago when we were doing the Loose sessions. It’s one of those songs that I think people who like Folklore will like, because it’s more intimate and slow."[3] The diss track "Give It to Me" was omitted from the album's track listing due to the negative lyrical content according to Furtado in an interview.[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The New Zealand Herald	[6]
Slant Magazine	[7]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album a four out of five star rating, noting the variety on the album and commended that "Not one of Nelly Furtado’s albums sounds like the one that came before", calling it an "admirable trait".[5] Slant Magazine called Furtado "one of pop music's most eclectic artists" and wrote that "the set also positions Furtado as one of the absolute finest singles artists of her generation."[7]

Scott Kara from The New Zealand Herald saw the release as being for the fans.[6]

Promotion

On 26 August 2010 at the "Orange Warsaw Festival" in Poland, Furtado debuted two previously unreleased songs, "Night Is Young" and "Girlfriend in the City".[8]

Commercial performance

The album charted only in European territories for solely one week, while lasting two in Switzerland, debuting at 100 and peaking at 29.[9] The album is certified gold in Poland and in the UK.

Track listing

Notes

• ^{^a} signifies a vocal producer
• ^{^b} signifies a co-producer
• ^{^c} signifies an additional producer

Charts

Chart performance for The Best of Nelly Furtado

Chart (2010–2012)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[13]	34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14]	55
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15]	81
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[16]	40
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[17]	90
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18]	20
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[19]	14
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[20]	23
Irish Albums (IRMA)[21]	31
Italian Albums (FIMI)[22]	37
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[23]	20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[24]	29
UK Albums (OCC)[25]	53

Certifications

Certifications for The Best of Nelly Furtado

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)[26]	Gold	10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[27]	Gold	100,000
* Sales figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

List of release dates, showing country, record label and edition

Region	Date	Label	Edition
Germany[28]	12 November 2010	Geffen	Standard, Deluxe
Poland[29]		Universal Music
United States[30]	16 November 2010	Geffen
United Kingdom[31]	29 November 2010	Polydor

References

На других языках

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[de] The Best of Nelly Furtado

The Best of Nelly Furtado (englisch für Das Beste von Nelly Furtado) ist ein Kompilationsalbum der portugiesisch-kanadischen Pop-Sängerin Nelly Furtado. Es wurde am 12. November 2010 über das Label Geffen Records als Standard- und Deluxe-Edition veröffentlicht.

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- [en] The Best of Nelly Furtado

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[it] The Best of Nelly Furtado

The Best of Nelly Furtado è la prima raccolta di successi della cantante canadese Nelly Furtado, pubblicato il 12 novembre 2010 dall'etichetta discografica Geffen. Il disco riunisce tutti i brani più noti della sua carriera, tra collaborazioni e pezzi in qualità di ospite, oltre a tre inediti, Night Is Young, Stars e Girlfriend in the City. È in vendita nelle versioni Standard e Deluxe, quest'ultima comprendente due CD.[3] Le tracce e la copertina della raccolta sono note a partire dal 14 ottobre 2010.

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