[citation needed] It was the brainchild of marketer Stephen Pritchard at Virgin Records.
However, on a number of indie music collections, the genre aspect was replaced by a full list of artist names.
[citation needed] The series started with The Best...Dance Album in the World...Ever!
Other successful subseries included Air Guitar, Sixties, Club Anthems and the aforementioned alternative rock Best...Album in the World Evers.
The Best Club Anthems...Ever!, featuring house, big beat, techno and electronica was released in 1997, and there have been 16 sequels.
Whilst Air Guitar III proclaimed to be the final volume, the liner notes written by May in The Best of the Best start with "OK, we lied."
Furthermore, many other albums with a similar concept followed from other labels, including Switched On from rival label Telstar, Classic Ads from Universal, Commercial Breaks from Beechwood Music and the similarly titled Commercial Break from Castle Music.
The series was immensely popular, and most of the volumes performed well in the compilation charts, with some even making number one.
The brand new The Album: series spawned six more volumes (although a hiatus was present in two of its five active years)
This is a double tape or CD compilation of 1970s funk and blaxploitation soundtrack music.
Like volume 1, there was an exclusive on the album: Brian May's cover of "God Save the Queen" recorded on top of Buckingham Palace in 2002.
Also featured was Queen's "One Vision" and many pop punk and nu metal songs which were fairly recent at the time of release.
Volume 3 featured a rare recording of the Pink Floyd song "Have a Cigar" by the Foo Fighters with Brian May.
The cover subtitles the set 4 CD Deluxe Limited Edition.
Most of the songs had already appeared on volumes 1, 2 & 3, but there were some which didn't, such as The Darkness' "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" and an exclusive Queen + Paul Rodgers live performance of "Fat Bottomed Girls".
At the end of the second disc is the Dunblane cover of the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
Several editions have been released since the first album, Power Ballads – The Greatest Driving Anthems in the World...