Nirvana is the first greatest hits album by the American rock band Nirvana, released in October 2002. It was the third Nirvana album released following the death of vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain in 1994.
The album includes songs from Nirvana’s three studio albums and the live album MTV Unplugged in New York, plus the previously unreleased “You Know You’re Right”, recorded in 1994 during Nirvana’s final studio session, a version of “Been a Son”, previously only available on a UK limited release, and the Scott Litt remix of “Pennyroyal Tea”.
Nirvana opened at number three on the Billboard 200 with 234,000 copies sold. It has sold one million copies in the United States, and two million copies in Europe as of 2007.