| The Essential Ozzy Osbourne | ||||
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| Released | 11 February 2003 (2009: 3 Disc Edition) | |||
| Recorded | 1980–2001 (–2007: 3 Disc Edition) | |||
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| Length | 151:01 | |||
| Label | Epic/Legacy | |||
| Producer | Various | |||
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The Essential Ozzy Osbourne is a compilation album by British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, released in 2003. It reached No. 81 on US charts[4] and No. 21 in the UK.[5] Tracks featured here from the first two albums are the re-recorded versions from recent reissues (see Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman) as well as the remixed Bark at the Moon tracks.[citation needed] The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 5 February 2005 with an excess of 500,000 copies sold,[6] then certified Platinum by the RIAA on 3 March 2016.[7] This compilation was re-released in 2009 as a Limited Edition 3.0 package with an additional disc of bonus songs that were not on the original release.
The album tracks from Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman are from the 2002 remasters, for which they were partially re-recorded. The original drum and bass tracks were replaced with recordings by Osbourne's then-current bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Mike Bordin, as a management response to legal action by original bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake for unpaid royalty fees.
It does not feature any material from 1986's The Ultimate Sin; however, the limited edition bonus disc does include two tracks from said album.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Originally from | Length |
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| 1. | "Crazy Train" | Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley | Blizzard of Ozz (1980) | 4:50 |
| 2. | "Mr. Crowley" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley | Blizzard of Ozz | 4:55 |
| 3. | "I Don't Know" (live) | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley | Tribute (1987) | 5:00 |
| 4. | "Suicide Solution" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley | Blizzard of Ozz | 4:16 |
| 5. | "Goodbye to Romance" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley | Blizzard of Ozz | 5:32 |
| 6. | "Over the Mountain" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake | Diary of a Madman (1981) | 4:31 |
| 7. | "Flying High Again" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake | Diary of a Madman | 4:38 |
| 8. | "Diary of a Madman" | Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake | Diary of a Madman | 6:12 |
| 9. | "Paranoid" (live) | Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward | Tribute | 2:52 |
| 10. | "Bark at the Moon" | Osbourne, Jake E. Lee, Daisley | Bark at the Moon (1983) | 4:15 |
| 11. | "You're No Different" | Osbourne, Lee, Daisley | Bark at the Moon | 5:49 |
| 12. | "So Tired" | Osbourne, Lee, Daisley | Bark at the Moon | 4:02 |
| 13. | "Rock 'n' Roll Rebel" | Osbourne, Lee, Daisley | Bark at the Moon | 5:22 |
| 14. | "Crazy Babies" | Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Daisley, Randy Castillo | No Rest for the Wicked (1988) | 4:14 |
| 15. | "Miracle Man" | Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, John Sinclair | No Rest for the Wicked | 3:44 |
| 16. | "Fire in the Sky" | Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo, Sinclair | No Rest for the Wicked | 6:24 |
| Total length: | 76:36 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Originally from | Length |
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| 1. | "Breakin' All the Rules" | Osbourne, Wylde, Daisley, Castillo | No Rest for the Wicked | 5:13 |
| 2. | "Mama, I'm Coming Home" | Osbourne, Wylde, Lemmy Kilmister | No More Tears (1991) | 4:11 |
| 3. | "Desire" | Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Kilmister | No More Tears | 5:45 |
| 4. | "No More Tears" | Osbourne, Wylde, Mike Inez, Castillo, John Purdell | No More Tears | 7:22 |
| 5. | "Time After Time" | Osbourne, Wylde | No More Tears | 4:20 |
| 6. | "Road to Nowhere" | Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo | No More Tears | 5:09 |
| 7. | "I Don't Want to Change the World" (live) | Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo, Kilmister | Live & Loud (1993) | 4:05 |
| 8. | "Perry Mason" | Osbourne, Wylde, Purdell | Ozzmosis (1995) | 5:53 |
| 9. | "I Just Want You" | Osbourne, Jim Vallance | Ozzmosis | 4:56 |
| 10. | "Thunder Underground" | Osbourne, Wylde, Castillo | Ozzmosis | 6:28 |
| 11. | "See You on the Other Side" | Osbourne, Wylde, Kilmister | Ozzmosis | 6:09 |
| 12. | "Gets Me Through" | Osbourne, Tim Palmer | Down to Earth (2001) | 5:04 |
| 13. | "Dreamer" | Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones | Down to Earth | 4:44 |
| 14. | "No Easy Way Out"" | Osbourne, Palmer | Down to Earth | 5:06 |
| Total length: | 74:25 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Originally from | Length |
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| 1. | "The Ultimate Sin" | Osbourne, Lee, Daisley | The Ultimate Sin (1986) | 3:45 |
| 2. | "Lightning Strikes" | Osbourne, Lee, Daisley | The Ultimate Sin | 5:14 |
| 3. | "That I Never Had" (live) | Osbourne, Joe Holmes, Robert Trujillo, Frederiksen | Live at Budokan (2002) | 4:15 |
| 4. | "I Don't Wanna Stop" | Osbourne, Wylde, Kevin Churko | Black Rain (2007) | 3:59 |
| 5. | "Black Rain" | Osbourne, Wylde, Churko | Black Rain | 4:42 |
| 6. | "Changes" (featuring Kelly Osbourne) | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | Under Cover (2005) | 4:06 |
| Total length: | 26:34 | |||
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Australia (ARIA)[21] | Platinum | 70,000‡ |
| Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[22] | Gold | 16,825[22] |
| New Zealand (RMNZ)[23] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
| Norway (IFPI Norway)[24] | Platinum | 40,000* |
| Sweden (GLF)[25] | Gold | 30,000^ |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[26] | Gold | 100,000* |
| United States (RIAA)[27] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000‡ |
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