*Bob Marley’s “Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers” has achieved something few albums in music history can claim: 950 weeks on the Billboard 200.
The milestone is even more striking considering the 1984 compilation never reached No. 1 on the all-genre chart. More than 30 years after its release, the album climbed to its highest position at No. 5 in 2014, according to PARADE.
Now, “Legend” has spent the equivalent of more than 18 years appearing on the Billboard 200. The compilation was released three years after Marley died and brought together some of the reggae superstar’s most recognizable recordings. Among them are “One Love/People Get Ready,” “No Woman, No Cry,” “Is This Love,” “Three Little Birds,” “Buffalo Soldier” and “Redemption Song.”
Its audience has continued to grow decades after those songs were first recorded. In 2025, “Legend” became the top-selling reggae album in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive year, while its performance on Billboard’s Reggae Albums chart has kept it among the format’s most dominant releases.
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The album’s sales numbers further illustrate its reach. RIAA figures cited by Forbes show that “Legend” has moved more than 18 million copies in the United States and more than 43 million worldwide.
What makes the achievement especially notable is that “Legend” is a posthumous compilation that has remained commercially relevant for more than four decades.
Marley died in 1981, but his music has continued to find new listeners across generations.
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