[1] The edited version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" featured on the album was simultaneously released as a single.

Unlike the two previously released Creedence Gold compilations, Chronicle includes all of the group's charted hits.

Certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[5] it is the best-selling album in the band's catalog.

The album has sold at least 6 million copies in the US since 1991 (data from 2013), when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard.

For his review of Chronicle for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that the album was suitably compiled, but he did not like how the Compact Disc reissue had the full-length version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," saying it does not fit with the other songs on the collection.