Brandy (Scott English song) arranged the record. In the Manilow version, the first two lines from the fourth verse, following the instrumental section, were omitted. They were: "Riding on a country bus/<br>No one even noticed us." The remaining lines were then used as a bridge instead. "Mandy" was covered by Irish boy band Westlife in 2003 and was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, "Turnaround". The single peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart to become the band's twelfth #1 single on the chart. The single sold over 200,000 copies in the UK. The single was released on Monday,
The Best of Mandy Moore Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine said:Of all the major teen pop stars who ran wild at the turn of the millennium, Mandy Moore was perhaps the least successful, if she's judged merely on terms of chart success. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera certainly racked up more hits and headlines than Mandy, and she never had a single as undeniably catchy and irresistible as Jessica Simpson's "I Think I'm in Love with You" [...] "The Best of Mandy Moore" [...] would be little bit more than footnote to the teen pop phenomenon of the early 2000s, and that may be true