Nature's Best is a two-disc compilation album of thirty New Zealand popular music songs, selected by a panel as the top thirty New Zealand songs of all time.

A list of over 900 candidate songs was prepared, and voting was open to APRA members and an invited academy.

[1] A collaborative effort by representatives of major record companies and APRA - most notably Mike Chunn[2][3] - took place to produce an album of the top 30 songs from this selection.

The resulting album was named Nature's Best after the title song, and was released in January 2002 on the Sony Music label.

Sales were extraordinary - in the first four months after its release, over 100,000 copies were sold[4] (over quintuple platinum in the New Zealand market).