''The Best of Big Bang'' is the sixth
greatest hits album
A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...
by the South Korean boy band
Big Bang
The Big Bang event is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models of the Big Bang explain the evolution of the observable universe from the ...
. It was released on November 26, 2014 by
YGEX
YGEX is a Japanese record label. A subsidiary of the Avex Group, it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded on April 12, 2011 by Japanese record company Avex Group and South Korean entertainment company YG Entertainment, and this is the ...
.
Background
To celebrate BigBang's fifth anniversary since their debut in Japan and their
Japan Dome Tour X
The Japan Dome Tour “X” was the fifth concert tour in Japan and eighth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on November 15, 2014 in Nagoya, and concluded on January 18, 2015 in Osaka. The tour made BigBang the first fore ...
in 2014, the quintent released another collection album which contains their best songs from their 2006 debut up to 2014.
Reception
''The Best of Big Bang 2006-2014'' debuted atop the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
's daily albums chart with 93,226 copies sold.
In the weekly chart the album amounted to 120,000 copies sold and debuted at number one. This was BigBang's highest first week sales in Japan, breaking their previous record ''
Big Bang 2'' (2011), which sold 65,000 copies.
Until February 2018 its sales totaled 223,690 copies sold.
[Total sales:
*
*]
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
Big Bang Official SiteBig Bang Japan Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Best of Big Bang 2006-2014
BigBang (South Korean band) albums
2014 greatest hits albums
Dance-pop compilation albums