The Best of D:Ream was the first official compilation album from British

United Kingdom

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 pop

Pop music

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/dance

Dance music

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 band D:Ream

D:Ream

D:Ream was a UK pop and dance band of the 1990s. They had a UK Number One hit with "Things Can Only Get Better" in 1994 as well as eight more top 40 hits. They released two albums, both of which reached the top five...

, issued by Magnet Records

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 label, and distributed by major Warner Bros. Records

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, with the management

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 of FXU. It was released in May 1997, just after their UK and U.S. Dance

Hot Dance Club Play

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 Number 1 hit, Things Can Only Get Better, was re-released for the second time, re-entering the UK Top 20 Singles Chart

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 at Number 19. The song received much publicity from the fact that it was later adopted by the UK Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election

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. The group's record company, in agreement with leader Peter Cunnah

Peter Cunnah

Peter Cunnah is best known as lead singer and songwriter with 1990s dance-pop duo, D:Ream. He was born in Derry, Northern Ireland.- D:Ream :...

, who decided to call it quits with D:Ream, chose to issue this greatest hits collection, instead of their third studio album, which was to be called Heap of Faith, and has since never been released.

The compilation contains 12 tracks taken from their two studio albums, 1993's D:Ream On Volume 1, and 1995's World

World (album)

World is the second studio album by British synthpop / dance band D:Ream, released in 1995. It was to be their final studio release before their disbanding in 1997.-Overview:...

. Including the re-released "Things Can Only Get Better", the album consists of the seven singles taken from their debut, the three singles from their second album and two more tracks from the latter ("Hold Me Now" and "Heart of Gold") which were never released as singles. This compilation failed to chart in the UK.

Track listing

1. "Things Can Only Get Better" (*)
2. "U R the Best Thing" (*)
3. "Take Me Away" (*)
4. "Shoot Me with Your Love
   Shoot Me with Your Love
   "Shoot Me with Your Love" is the first of a three-single Top 40 run for the band D:Ream in 1995. It was the highest peaking of the three songs, reaching number seven on the UK Singles Chart. The follow-ups, "Party Up the World" and "The Power", reached number 20 and number 40, respectively....
   
   " (**)
5. "Unforgiven" (*)
6. "I Like It" (*)
7. "Party Up the World" (**)
8. "The Power (Of All the Love in the World)" (**)
9. "Blame It on Me" (*)
10. "Heart of Gold" (**)
11. "Star" (*)
12. "Hold Me Now" (**)

(*) Taken from D:Ream On Volume 1 (1993)

(**) Taken from World (1995).