Headlong Original LP Edit. The Miracle. The Invisible Man. Hammer to Fall Single Version. Friends Will Be Friends. One Vision Single Version. Disc 3. Under Pressure Rah Mix. Barcelona Single Version.
You Don't Fool Me. Heaven for Everyone Single Version. Driven By You. Brian May. Living On My Own. Freddie Mercury. Let Me Live. The Great Pretender. Princes of the Universe. Another One Bites the Dust Remix. These Are the Days of Our Lives. November 13, 51 Songs, 3 Hours, 28 Minutes. Music Videos. Bohemian Rhapsody Queen. More by Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody The Original Soundtrack Greatest Hits UK Edition A Night at the Opera Sheer Heart Attack News of the World It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, spending four weeks at the top and sold consistently well throughout the s, becoming the fourth-biggest selling album of the decade.
Greatest Hits peaked at number eight on the Billboard in November , the second-slowest ascent to the top ten of the US album chart in history. Following the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in , it re-entered the charts of countries worldwide.
There was no universal track listing or cover art for the Greatest Hits album, and each territory's tracks were dependent on what singles were released there and what tracks charted. In some territories, despite the band's popularity, not enough songs were issued as singles to fill a compilation album, and a few album tracks were used as filler. Some examples of these were 'Sweet Lady' and 'Love of My Life', neither of which was released as a single in any country but appear on some regions' Hits release.
The US ended up with its original edit of Queen's first single release, 'Keep Yourself Alive', originally released in and re-released in the US in , following the success of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. The US version also added 'Under Pressure', Queen's collaboration with David Bowie, which was released the same week as Greatest Hits and subsequently topped the UK Singles Chart and reached the top ten in many charts around the world.
However, the song was not included on the European versions of Greatest Hits — according to Queen's business manager Jim Beach, this was because the longer manufacturing time required to press records in Europe meant that several hundred thousand copies of the album had already been pressed up before the song had been recorded.
The CD version is the same as the British version. The cover photo that appeared on the UK and US release was taken by Lord Snowdon at his home studio, using only natural light. For the release, the photo was skewed, but was later presented as it was originally taken for the re-release. In , Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing. However, the band had just changed record labels in the US, from Capitol to Hollywood Records, who were keen on a massive promotion of the band's back catalogue.
The problem was that Elektra still held the US rights to that first collection despite being Hollywood's US licensee. Hollywood Records decided not to release Greatest Hits II to the US market, but instead created their own collection, Classic Queen , peaking at number four on the Billboard chart. Later that year, Hollywood Records released a companion collection, Greatest Hits , with similar artwork on a red background, where Classic Queen was on royal blue.
Greatest Hits was released alongside Greatest Flix , a minute compilation released on VHS video and LaserDisc of all the videos Queen had made up until that point in chronological order, and Greatest Pix , a page paperback book edited by Jacques Lowe which featured photos of the band taken by Neal Preston.
The video for 'Killer Queen' had been shot especially for Greatest Flix , as no video had been made for the song on its original release in Initial reviews of the album in the British music press were negative. In NME Barney Hoskyns said, 'All of [their songs], besides 'Another One Bites the Dust', are quite repulsive, unbelievably crass insults to their respective genres and uniformly vulgar music.
It was only when Queen took vulgarity to its absolute limit that they stood out. The album continued to sell well throughout the s, appearing on several UK year-end charts, and by the end of the decade it had become the fourth-biggest selling album in the UK during the s, with sales of over 1. In the US, Greatest Hits sold moderately well on initial release in , obtaining a platinum certification.
The 39 years and one month that the album took to reach the top ten of the Billboard is the second-longest ascent to the top ten in the history of the US album chart. This section includes the track listings for the original Greatest Hits in its various forms.
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