Ahead of his Irish gigs this summer, Bruce Springsteen is set to release a new career-spanning, 31-track best of collection this April.
Springsteen and The E Street Band return To Ireland for four shows - 9 May at Boucher Road, Belfast, 12 May at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, 16 May at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork and 19 May at Croke Park, Dublin.
Sony Music will celebrate the music of Springsteen next month with a collection from his 50-year recording career, from 1973's Greeting from Asbury Park, NJ to 2020's Letter To You.
Best Of Bruce Springsteen is released on 19 April and will come in physical formats as an 18-track set across two LPs or one CD - and digitally as an expanded 31-song package.
It features early-career favourites like Growin' Up and Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), staples of Springsteen's live shows from Dancing In The Dark to The Rising, best-selling breakouts like Born To Run and Hungry Heart, as well as recent releases Hello Sunshine and Letter To You.
The album cover shot is by Eric Meola and was taken during the Born To Run sessions and there are new liner notes by writer and music archivist Erik Flannigan.
Bruce Springsteen has won 20 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, a special Tony Award, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, a Kennedy Center Honor and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He has sold 140 million records sold across the globe, more than 70 million in the United States alone, and is the first artist in history with a Top Five album in six consecutive decades.
Springsteen is also one of only four artists to sell more than 20 million concert tickets since 1980 - including the highest-grossing worldwide tours of 2012 and 2016.
The track list for Best Of Bruce Springsteen is:, Growin' Up, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Born To Run, Thunder Road, Badlands, Hungry Heart, Atlantic City, Dancing in the Dark, Born in the U.S.A, Brilliant Disguise, Human Touch, Streets of Philadelphia, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Secret Garden, The Rising, Girls In Their Summer Clothes, Hello Sunshine, Letter To You.
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