Time Flies... 1994–2009

Time Flies is Oasis’s complete singles collection, released on 14 June 2010 on Big Brother Recordings. The double album gathers the band’s UK singles from Supersonic in 1994 to Falling Down in 2009. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming the 900th album ever to top that chart.

The album arrived ten months after the band split in August 2009. Nobody expected a reunion then, so the collection read as a full stop on the whole story. Sixteen years of singles sit on two discs, out of chronological order, and the Oasis albums hub maps the catalogue around them.

How was Time Flies put together?

The tracklist follows one simple rule: every UK single the band released. Twenty-six tracks appear by name across the two discs, from the debut single Supersonic through to Falling Down. Two of those singles, Whatever and Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, never appeared on a studio album, which makes this collection their natural home.

The 27th single, Sunday Morning Call, hides in plain sight, playing on disc two two minutes after Falling Down ends. Noel Gallagher asked for the song to stay off the sleeve. The back cover therefore says 26 tracks, while the discs quietly carry 27.

For American buyers, the package shifts slightly, adding Champagne Supernova at the start of disc two. The song was a single in North America but never a UK commercial release. That edition drops the hidden track, which makes the UK pressing the complete one.

The sequencing mixes the eras deliberately, placing Stop Crying Your Heart Out and Songbird among the nineties singles on disc one. Some Might Say and Lyla open a second disc that runs toward the final years. The effect flattens the band’s decline narrative, because the strong late singles hold their own in this company.

For context, the collection also preserves the band’s odd singles history honestly. Oasis released singles that belonged to no studio album, skipped obvious album tracks as singles and once issued a download-only single. A complete singles set has to hold all of that, and Time Flies simply does.

How did Time Flies do on release?

Time Flies entered the UK chart at number one with first-week sales of 101,297 copies. The chart dated 26 June 2010 made history, because the album became the 900th number one in UK Albums Chart history. A singles collection by a band that no longer existed had taken the milestone.

Since then, the album has quietly become a catalogue giant. The BPI now certifies it 8x Platinum, covering 2.4 million UK units, which places it third among Oasis albums in Britain. Only Morning Glory and Definitely Maybe sit ahead of it.

The reunion era then handed the record a second chart life. Time Flies returned to number one in the UK following the launch of the Live ‘25 reunion tour in 2025, fifteen years after its release. It finished 2025 as the fourth biggest album of the year in the UK, an almost unheard-of run for a compilation of its age.

For comparison, its predecessor Stop the Clocks peaked at number two and chose 18 tracks by taste. Time Flies outsold it by completeness: every single, no arguments about omissions, one hidden joke in the tracklisting. The market has kept choosing the complete version ever since.

Which songs define Time Flies?

Supersonic opens the collection, exactly as it opened the band’s career. The debut single from April 1994 still sounds like a band kicking a door in, and it frames everything that follows. Live Forever and Wonderwall arrive early on disc one, which underlines how quickly Oasis moved from hopeful to unavoidable.

The first disc also maps the band’s second life, with Cigarettes & Alcohol and Stand by Me holding the nineties end up. The Hindu Times, Stop Crying Your Heart Out and Songbird show the 2000s band still producing UK Top 3 singles. All Around the World then closes the disc, the longest UK number one single of its time at roughly nine minutes.

Roll with It carries the collection’s most famous chart story. Its August 1995 release triggered the Battle of Britpop against Blur. Oasis lost that fight on the week and won it across the decade, and the Oasis vs Blur page tells the story in full.

Disc two runs from Some Might Say toward the end of the story. The Importance of Being Idle, Lyla and Let There Be Love carry the Don’t Believe the Truth revival. Whatever waits near the end, the great standalone single of Christmas 1994, and Falling Down closes the run two tracks later.

Whatever shows the every-single rule working at its strangest. The band released it as a standalone single at Christmas 1994, between the first two albums, and it sits here beside the album singles. Its co-writer credit, shared with Neil Innes, marks the catalogue’s most famous legal footnote.

I’m Outta Time gives the late era its tender moment near the end of disc two. Liam wrote and sang the piano ballad, and its placing before Falling Down lets the collection end on the band’s final singles in order.

Taken as a whole, the two discs make the collection’s argument without words. Twenty-seven UK singles, every one of them familiar to British radio listeners, sit comfortably on a double album. Few British bands of any era can fill that format with singles alone.

How does Time Flies stand now?

Today, this is the Oasis album most British households actually own. The certification figures prove the point: a singles collection outselling every studio album except the first two is a rare shape for a catalogue. Casual listeners start here, and many never need to go further.

Collectors still argue about which compilation serves the band better. Stop the Clocks offers Noel’s taste and superior sequencing, while Time Flies offers the complete evidence. The sales gap between them suggests the public settled that argument years ago.

On the practical side, the album also functions as the reunion era’s entry ticket.

Today, that behaviour makes sense, because playlists train listeners to meet a band through its singles. Time Flies simply gives that habit an official, complete form, with the artwork and the hidden track as bonuses.

New fans arriving through the reunion tours buy or stream this collection first. It promises them the whole story in one purchase, which explains its 2025 chart return.

Will you hear Time Flies at Live ‘27?

Almost all of it, across any given night. The modern Oasis set draws overwhelmingly on the singles, so a stadium show plays like a live run through this album’s two discs. Supersonic, Live Forever, Wonderwall, Don’t Look Back in Anger and Some Might Say are permanent fixtures of the reunion set.

Some tracks on the collection face longer odds. The late Dig Out Your Soul singles rarely troubled the band’s 2000s setlists, and neither did Lord Don’t Slow Me Down or Who Feels Love? Sunday Morning Call, the hidden track in every sense, will almost certainly stay hidden.

Follow the Oasis setlist page to count the overlap at your show. On most nights, Time Flies doubles as a setlist preview, which is exactly what a great singles collection should do.