The Very Best of Sting & the Police

The Very Best of... Sting & The Police is a compilation album issued by Sting, and released by A&M Records in November 17, 1997. Conceived at the time when Sting had just released his fifth solo effort, Mercury Falling (hence equalling his personal tally with the one of The Police), the album mixes a selection of Sting's Police-era songs with later hits recorded under his own name. It originally featured one new track, a remix of the 1978 song "Roxanne" by rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs. The album was reissued in 1998 by PolyGram International with "Russians" removed and three additional tracks, "Seven Days", "Fragile", and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da", being added. In 2002, it was again re-released by Universal with several track changes: the songs "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot", "Russians", and "Roxanne '97 (Puff Daddy Remix)" are omitted, with the songs "Brand New Day", "Desert Rose", and "So Lonely" in their place.

1. Message in a Bottle
2. Can't Stand Losing You
3. Englishman in New York
4. Every Breath You Take
5. Seven Days
6. Walking on the Moon
7. Fields of Gold
8. Fragile
9. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
12. Brand New Day
13. Desert Rose
14. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
15. When We Dance (Edit)
16. Don't Stand So Close to Me
17. Roxanne