Its subtitle is världens mest lästa tidskrift (Swedish: the world's most read magazine).
[2] Det Bästa was first published in March 1943 and is affiliated with the American magazine Reader's Digest.
[3] Barclay Acheson, director of the international editions of Reader's Digest, involved in the establishment of the magazine in Sweden.
[6] The magazine had covered materials from its parent publication, Reader's Digest, until 2008 when it was redesigned to expand its content.
[7] During the Cold War period the Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that both Det Bästa and Valitut Palat, Finnish edition of Reader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland.