issued The Best Of: Volume 1

After the release of Neon Ballroom , Silverchair’s three-album contract with Sony Music had ended. The group eventually signed with Atlantic Records for North and South America, and they formed their own label with Watson, Eleven: A Music Company (distributed by EMI ), for Australia and Asia. In November 2000, after the group had left the label, Sony issued The Best Of: Volume 1 without the band’s involvement. Johns disavowed the compilation, saying, “We thought about putting out ads in the street press to make people aware that we weren’t endorsing it, but that would have blown the whole thing out of proportion … If people want to buy it, they can buy it[,] but I wouldn’t buy it if I was a Silverchair fan.”