Of the thirteen tracks, eight had charted, including her major hit singles "Gloria", "Solitaire", "Self Control", "Power of Love", and "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You".

The album features two new recordings: "Show Me Heaven" and a cover of Donna Summer's "Dim All the Lights", the latter which was released as a single in late spring 1995 and became a Billboard Top 40 Dance hit.

In terms of her global music releases, Best of Branigan had already been preceded by other greatest hits anthologies outside the United States, all with very similar titles, beginning in 1988, and again in 1992, for listeners in much of the rest of the world.

"[2] Cashbox noted that "there might be a tendency to think of Branigan as a second-rate Sheena Easton...but a look at the track listing on this best of, which includes two new covers — one of Maria McKee’s “Show Me Heaven” and one of Donna Summer’s “Dim All the Lights” — indicates that might not be a fair assessment.

"[8] In their review of "Dim All the Lights", Billboard wrote that Branigan "boldly takes on Donna Summer's disco evergreen with festive results.