The Very Best (INXS album)

Track listing

The album was released in three formats; a single-disc version, a double-disc version and a double-disc version with a DVD.

Standard edition

1. "Need You Tonight" – 3:03 (from Kick)
2. "Mystify" – 3:19 (from Kick)
3. "Suicide Blonde" – 3:53 (from X)
4. "Taste It" – 3:20 (from Welcome to Wherever You Are)
5. "Original Sin" – 5:18 (from The Swing)
6. "Heaven Sent" – 3:20 (from Welcome to Wherever You Are)
7. "Disappear" – 4:10 (from X)
8. "Never Tear Us Apart" – 3:05 (from Kick)
9. "The Gift" – 4:04 (from Full Moon, Dirty Hearts)
10. "Devil Inside" – 5:15 (from Kick)
11. "Beautiful Girl" – 3:29 (from Welcome to Wherever You Are)
12. "By My Side" – 3:06 (from X)
13. "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" – 3:55 (from Listen Like Thieves)
14. "Elegantly Wasted" – 4:34 (from Elegantly Wasted)
15. "New Sensation" – 3:41 (from Kick)
16. "What You Need" – 3:36 (from Listen Like Thieves)
17. "Listen Like Thieves" – 3:48 (from Listen Like Thieves)
18. "Just Keep Walking" – 2:44 (from INXS)
19. "Bitter Tears" – 3:50 (from X)
20. "Baby Don't Cry" – 4:47 (from Welcome to Wherever You Are)

Deluxe edition

The first disc has the same track listing as the single-disc edition.

1. "Don't Change" – 4:27 (from Shabooh Shoobah)
2. "The One Thing" – 3:26 (from Shabooh Shoobah)
3. "Shining Star" – 3:44 (from Live Baby Live)
4. "The Stairs" – 4:58 (from X)
5. "Please (You Got That...)" – 3:04 (INXS and Ray Charles) (from Full Moon, Dirty Hearts)
6. "Burn For You" – 4:59 (from The Swing)
7. "I Send a Message" – 3:24 (from The Swing)
8. "The Loved One" – 3:37 (from Kick)
9. "This Time" – 3:10 (from Listen Like Thieves)
10. "Shine Like It Does" – 3:07 (from Listen Like Thieves)
11. "Stay Young" – 3:25 (from Underneath the Colours)
12. "Kick" – 3:15 (from Kick)
13. "Calling All Nations" – 3:05 (from Kick)
14. "To Look at You" – 3:58 (from Shabooh Shoobah)
15. "Good Times" – 3:52 (INXS and Jimmy Barnes)
16. "Need You Tonight" (mash-up) – 3:50 (INXS vs. Gwen Stefani)
17. "New Sensation" (live at the Edinburgh Playhouse) – 4:06
18. "What You Need" (live at the Edinburgh Playhouse) – 5:26
19. "Mystify" (live at the Edinburgh Playhouse) – 3:29
20. "Disappear" (live at the Brixton Academy) – 3:57

1. INXS: The Very Best documentary
2. "Taste It" (Top of the Pops)
3. "The Strangest Party (These Are the Times)" (Top of the Pops)
4. "Never Tear Us Apart" (Jools Holland)
5. "Need You Tonight" (promo)
6. "New Sensation" (promo)
7. "Beautiful Girl" (promo)
8. "Suicide Blonde" (promo)
9. "The Gift" (promo)

Chart performance

The Very Best debuted and peaked at number 39 in Australia on 6 November 2011. When promotion began for the mini-series, it re-entered the charts at number 13 on 10 November 2013. With the airing on the mini-series in February 2014, the album slowly rose to number 1 on 17 February 2014. It became the first INXS "best of" album to reach number one in Australia.

The Very Best took 77 weeks before it reached number 1 and holds the record for the longest amount of weeks to rise to number 1 in ARIA chart history.

Year-end charts

The Very Best was the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian artist in 2014 and the fourth overall.