Bob Marley's best selling album, by a wide margin, is the 1984 compilation Legend. As we've argued here, Legend was purposefully marketed to white, non-reggae listeners, and it depicted Marley as a sort of spiritual prophet of love and good vibes. But Legend was heavily slanted towards the second half of Marley's career, when he was a solo artist. Only four of the tracks on the original release predated 1977's Exodus. Later, expanded reissues of Legend continued this trend, favoring DJ remixes of later tracks as opposed to older material.
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