The Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary 2-Disc Limited Edition

Rhino celebrates Chicago's 40th Anniversary with this Limited Edition double-disc, 30-Song career-spanning collection, which features 30 Top 40 hits, sequenced chronologically.

Chicago is one of America's best-selling and longest-running bands. In 40 years, the group has done it all - five consecutive #1 albums, 13 platinum albums, 21 Top 10 singles, a Grammy and a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Encompassing the group's entire recording history - from its 1969 debut 'Chicago Transit Authority', to 2006's Chicago 'XXX' - 'The Best of Chicago' includes #1 smashes, such as "Look Away," "Hard To Say I'm Sorry," and the Grammy-winning "If You Leave Me Now."

The first disc features "Make Me Smile," the band's first Top 10 hit, along with "Does Any One Really Know What Time It Is?" and "Beginnings" from the band's debut, "Colour My World" from Chicago 'II', "Saturday In The Park," from Chicago 'V' and the group's signature "25 or 6 to 4."

Formed in their namesake city in 1967, Chicago's music mixed rock, pop, and jazz in a completely new way, Propelled by innovative horn arrangements, the band's commercial potential was soon apparent; when in 1970 the band hit the charts with its first of 21 Top 10 singles. The group would go on to score five consecutive #1 albums starting in 1972 with Chicago 'V'. In a career both influential and extensive, Chicago has sold more than 100 million records and continues to tour every year to sell-out audiences.