Stereophonics mark three decades with Tune!

A 30-track sweep lands on 20 November, aimed by Kelly Jones at long-term fans and the newer crowd drawn in by arena and stadium runs — with a ninth UK number one still fresh from 2025.

Stereophonics will release Tune!, a 30-track best-of album, on 20 November 2026. The compilation arrives as the Welsh band mark 30 years since they formed in 1996, gathering the big songs of a career that has already carried them past ten million albums and ten million singles sold worldwide.

Frontman Kelly Jones has described the set as an up-to-date collection of those songs in one place. He has framed it for long-term fans and for newer listeners who found the group through recent arena and stadium tours — a clear signal that the catalogue is still meeting fresh audiences on the road as well as on record.

They reach this anniversary with fresh chart weight behind them. Their most recent studio album, Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait, was released in 2025 and went to number one in the UK. It became their ninth UK number-one album, underlining that the studio run has kept its force even as a retrospective now takes shape around it.

Thirty tracks for thirty years

A best-of at this point in the story is less a full stop than a stocktake. Thirty tracks across three decades give the group room to set the songs that defined earlier chapters beside the work that has kept them in arenas and stadiums more recently. Jones's own wording — the big songs, gathered, kept current rather than frozen — presents the running order as a living map of the catalogue rather than a sealed museum piece.

That practical aim suits a band whose commercial reach has stayed broad. More than ten million albums, and the same figure again in singles sold worldwide, place Stereophonics among the lasting commercial forces of British and Irish rock over the past generation. A thirty-track sweep is the straightforward answer for listeners who want the arc without hunting each era on its own, and for those who mainly know the songs that have travelled with the recent live campaigns.

From the last number one to the shelf date

The timing is deliberate. Coming after a UK number-one studio album in 2025, Tune! does not stand in for new material; it sits beside it. That record reaffirmed the band's grip on the album chart. The compilation now packages the longer story for November. Pre-orders are already open through the band's official link.

What the final tracklist carries will be clear when the record arrives. What is already settled is the frame: thirty years, thirty tracks, a frontman offering the set to both the faithful and the newly converted, and a group still working at the scale of arenas, stadiums and chart-topping studio albums. For listeners who have kept these songs in rotation for years, the date is simple — 20 November 2026 — and the invitation is the career held in one place.