[7] As of February 2025, Legend has spent a total of 873 nonconsecutive weeks on the US Billboard 200 albums chart—the second-longest run in the chart's history.

[8][9] Also, as of February 2025, it has spent 1,172 weeks in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart—the third-longest run in that chart's history.

Although the disc includes the same 14 songs, the tracks are in their original album lengths rather than the edited versions for single release.

[6] Despite its generally positive reception, Legend has been criticized for being a deliberately inoffensive selection of Marley's less political music, shorn of any radicalism that might damage sales.

So he constructed a greatest-hits album that showed just one face of the Marley prism, the side he deemed most sellable to the suburbs.

[...] If you're looking for mass-market appeal to secular-progressive America, you don't include songs that invoke collective guilt over the slave trade, nor do you address the inconvenient truth that the bucolic Jamaican lifestyle of reggae, sandy beaches, and marijuana embraced by millions of college freshmen, exists only because of the brutal slave trade.

The definitive album of the most important reggae singer of all time is a hodgepodge collection of love songs, feel-good sentiment, and mere hints of the fiery activist whose politics drew bullets in the '70s.

"[27] When first released in the US in 1984, pressings contained remixes of "No Woman, No Cry," "Buffalo Soldier," "Waiting In Vain," "Exodus" and "Jammin'," done in 1984 by Eric Thorngren.