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Nirvana
Compilation album by Nirvana
Released	October 29, 2002
Recorded	1988-1994
Genre	Alternative rock, Grunge
Length	49:38
Label	DGC
Producer	Scott Litt, Butch Vig, Nirvana
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (7.0/10) link Rolling Stone link
Nirvana chronology
From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) Nirvana (2002) With the Lights Out (2004)

Nirvana is a "best-of" compilation album from the American grunge band, Nirvana. It was released in October 2002.

Contents 1 Significance 2 Lawsuit 3 Rival With One By One 4 Miscellanea 5 Track listing 5.1 Bonus tracks 6 Album charts 7 Charting singles 8 Credits 9 Sales 10 References

Nirvana was the third Nirvana album to be released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994, and the first to feature studio material. It contains the previously unreleased "You Know You're Right," a song recorded during the band's final studio session on January 30, 1994. The album also includes a brief selection of the band's more popular songs, culled mostly from 1991's Nevermind and 1993's In Utero, but also containing three pre-Nevermind songs and two recorded during the band's MTV Unplugged set in late 1993. Nirvana opened at #3 on the Billboard 200. The album has sold millions of copies worldwide.

Nirvana was released following the settlement of a long-standing legal dispute between Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. Much of the dispute centered around "You Know You're Right," which Novoselic and Grohl had wanted to release on a long-delayed Nirvana box set. However, Love blocked the song's release, and sued Novoselic and Grohl over control of Nirvana's legacy.

Love's lawsuit maintained that "You Know You're Right" was a "potential 'hit' of extraordinary artistic and commercial value."^[1] She believed that "You Know You're Right" would be "wasted" on a box set, and instead belonged on a single-disc compilation similar to the Beatles' 1.^[2] In September 2002, it was announced by the Nirvana camp that the lawsuit had been settled, and that "You Know You're Right" would be released on "Nirvana, a one-CD history of the band."^[3] This paved the way for the box set, With The Lights Out which was released two years later.

Drummer Dave Grohl from Nirvana started a band in 1995, Foo Fighters. In 2002, the week before Nirvana was released, Foo Fighters released their fourth studio album, One By One. It debuted at 3 in America, same as Nirvana but fell down the charts quicker and did not sell as much as Nirvana. However the first single, "All My Life," from One By One , knocked "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana off the number 1 spot from Modern Rock Tracks in what would have been "YKYR"'s 5th week, "All My Life" remained at number 1 for 10 weeks. However Nirvana's song was more successful on the Mainstream Rock Tracks, where it peaked at 1 and Foo Fighters peaked in the top 5.

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• Apart from "You Know You're Right," Nirvana contains two tracks which were not commonly available prior to its release: the "Blew" EP version of "Been a Son," recorded two years before the version which appears on Incesticide, and the Scott Litt remix of "Pennyroyal Tea", which had previously appeared only on the censored Wal-Mart and Kmart versions of In Utero and on the recalled "Pennyroyal Tea" single iTunes has now a [2006 edition] of the Nirvana album in a inverted white.

• Nirvana's liner notes were written by Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who also penned the notes for the Velvet Underground box set, Peel Slowly and See.

All songs by Kurt Cobain unless otherwise noted:

1. "You Know You're Right" – 3:38
2. "About a Girl" – 2:49
3. "Been a Son" – 2:23 (from the Blew EP)
4. "Sliver" – 2:14
5. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) – 5:01
6. "Come as You Are" – 3:39
7. "Lithium" – 4:17
8. "In Bloom" – 4:15
9. "Heart-Shaped Box" – 4:41
10. "Pennyroyal Tea" (Scott Litt remix) – 3:38
11. "Rape Me" – 2:51
12. "Dumb" – 2:34
13. "All Apologies" – 3:51
14. "The Man Who Sold the World" (Bowie) – 3:47

1. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Unplugged)" (Lead Belly) – 5:08 (appears on vinyl and international CD copies only)
2. "Something in the Way (Unplugged)" – 4:01 (appears on vinyl and Japanese CD copies only)

Year	Album	Chart	Position
2002	Nirvana	Official Australian Albums Chart	No. 1
2002	Nirvana	Official Austrian Albums Chart	No. 1
2002	Nirvana	Official Switzerland Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Irish Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Belgium Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official New Zealand Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Official Canadian Albums Chart	No. 2
2002	Nirvana	Billboard Top 200	No. 3
2002	Nirvana	Official UK Albums Chart	No. 3
2002	Nirvana	Official German Albums Chart	No. 5
2002	Nirvana	Official Norwegian Albums Chart	No. 5
2002	Nirvana	Official Holland Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Denmark Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Italian Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Japanese Albums Chart	No. 6
2002	Nirvana	Official Finland Albums Chart	No. 9
2002	Nirvana	Official Sweden Albums Chart	No. 10
2002	Nirvana	Official Spanish Albums Chart	No. 11
2002	Nirvana	Official Portugal Albums Chart	No. 24
2002	Nirvana	Official Hungarian Albums Chart	No. 106

Note: "You Know You're Right" was only released as a promotional single and downloadable single. Retail singles were not released.

Year	Song	Chart	Position
2002	You Know You're Right	Mainstream Rock Tracks (US)	No. 1
2002	You Know You're Right	Modern Rock Tracks (US)	No. 1
2002	You Know You're Right	The Billboard Hot 100 (US)	No. 45
2002	You Know You're Right	Triple J Hottest 100 (Australia)	No. 12
2002	You Know You're Right	Finland Mitä hittiä Charts	No. 45
2002	You Know You're Right	Latvian Airplay Charts	No. 11
2002	You Know You're Right	Polish Airplay Charts	No. 13

• Steve Albini - Engineer, Mixing
• James Barber - Project Director
• Corbis Bettman - Photography
• Chad Channing - Drums on "About a Girl" and "Been a Son"
• Kurt Cobain - Guitar, Vocals
• Jack Endino - Engineer, Mixing
• Robert Fisher - Art Direction
• Steve Fisk - Engineer, Mixing
• David Fricke - Liner Notes
• Lori Goldston - Cello
• Dave Grohl - Drums, Vocals
• Adam Kasper - Engineer, Mixing
• Scott Litt - Producer, Mixing
• Bob Ludwig - Mastering
• Michael Meisel - Project Director
• Frank Micelotta - Photography
• Nirvana - Producer
• Krist Novoselic - Bass
• Frank Ockenfels - Photography
• Dan Peters - Drums on "Sliver"
• Charles Peterson - Photography
• Redferns - Photography
• John Silva - Project Director
• Pat Smear - Guitar
• Andy Wallace - Mixing
• Butch Vig - Producer, Engineer

• American Sales: 1 million, (Certified 1 X Platinum 12/03/02)
• Switzerland: 2002;Gold, 2003;Platinum.
• Japanese sales: 2 November 2002, 21 weeks, 165,191.
• Korea: 2002; 19,534 copies.
• Italy: 2002; 130,000 copies; Platinum.

• Courtney Love Sues Grohl And Novoselic, Blocks Nirvana Rarity by Teri van Horn, MTV News, June 29, 2001
• A piece of Kurt Cobain by Jim DeRogatis, March 10, 2002
• The Internet Nirvana Fanclub's report on the settlement of the Nirvana lawsuit

v • d • e Nirvana
Kurt Cobain · Krist Novoselic · Dave Grohl Aaron Burckhard · Dave Foster · Chad Channing · Dale Crover · Dan Peters  · Jason Everman · Pat Smear
Studio albums	Bleach · Nevermind · In Utero
Live albums	MTV Unplugged in New York · From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Extended Plays	Blew · Hormoaning
Compilations	Nevermind: It's An Interview · Incesticide · Nirvana · Sliver: The Best of the Box
Singles	"Love Buzz" · "Sliver" · "Molly's Lips" · "Here She Comes Now" · "Smells Like Teen Spirit" · "Come as You Are" · "Lithium" · "On a Plain" · "In Bloom" · "Oh, the Guilt" · "Heart-Shaped Box" · "All Apologies/Rape Me" · "Pennyroyal Tea" · "About a Girl (Unplugged)" · "The Man Who Sold the World (Unplugged)" · "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" · "Lake of Fire (Unplugged)" · "Aneurysm (live)" · "Drain You (live)" · "You Know You're Right"
Video releases and box sets	Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! · Singles · With the Lights Out · Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind
Related articles	Discography · 1991: The Year Punk Broke · Grunge music · Generation X · Courtney Love · Frances Bean Cobain · Godspeed · Heavier Than Heaven · Hype! · Kurt & Courtney · Kurt Cobain About a Son · Last Days · Tom Grant · Journals · Fecal Matter - Illiteracy Will Prevail · Spencer Elden · List of songs by Nirvana · Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana · "Smells Like Nirvana" · Foo Fighters · Sweet 75 · Eyes Adrift · No WTO Combo