After ten years of recording activity and seven albums, most of them platinum-selling Top Ten hits,
Malú released the greatest-hits CD/DVD collection
Gracias. Comprised entirely of previously released material, the 18-track CD that comes packaged as part of
Gracias is sequenced non-chronologically and includes a few rarities. Fairly well-balanced between all six of her studio albums and excluding anything from her live album
Por una Vez (2004), the CD includes two songs from
Aprendiz (1998), two songs from
Cambiarás (1999), four songs from
Esta Vez (2001), one song from
Otra Piel (2003), three songs from
Malú (2005), and three songs from
Desafío (2006). The three rarities tacked on to the end of the CD include "Contigo Aprendí," a duet with Mexican pop superstar
Alejandro Fernández from his live album
Mexico-Madrid: En Directo y Sin Escalas (2005); "Pueblo Blanco," a contribution to the
Joan Manuel Serrat tribute album
Serrat...Eres Único, Vol. 2 (2005); and "En Otra Parte," a contribution to the various-artists live in-concert album Tatuaje (2000). The DVD that comes packaged as part of
Gracias documents a 23-song concert performance from September 2007 in Córdoba, Spain, that is comprised primarily of
Malú's greatest hits. The first compilation to chronicle
Malú's recording output,
Gracias only includes about half of her singles to date and could have easily been expanded to a double-disc CD collection. As it stands as a single-disc collection, however, it's filled to the brim and well-compiled, selecting all of her biggest hits and leaving the secondary ones aside. Even though the accompanying live DVD is somewhat excessive, driving up the price more than necessary,
Gracias is a representative summary of
Malú's first decade of recording activity (1997-2007) and makes for an ideal entry point to her back catalog.