The Very Best of Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black is an original, career-spanning compilation album by English singer Cilla Black, released in October 2013 by Parlophone / Warner Music Group UK to mark her golden anniversary in show business. The album reached No. 37 in 2013 on the UK Albums Chart, which was Black's first Top 40 hit in thirty years. In September 2014, after the transmission of ITV biopic "Cilla" starring Sheridan Smith the album re-entered the UK Albums Chart and peaked at No. 26. The album was to make its ultimate peak at No. 1
Cilla Black label which launched her career in 1963) released the career-spanning CD "The Very Best of Cilla Black"—containing all 19 of her UK Top 40 singles, new club remixes plus a bonus DVD of her 1966 TV music special "Cilla at the Savoy". Black was the best-selling British female recording artist in the UK during the 1960s, releasing a total of 15 studio albums and 37 singles. Black was offered her own show on the BBC by Bill Cotton, then Assistant Head of Light Entertainment. The show would simply be titled "Cilla" and aired from January 1968 to April 1976. Cotton