Greatest Hits (Queen album)
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Original 1981 edition
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| Greatest hits album by Queen | |||||||||||||||
| Released | 26 October 1981 | ||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1973–1980 (1981 UK edition (Parlophone) & 2011 UK edition (Island) & 1994 U.S. edition) 1972–1981 (1981 U.S. & Canada edition) 1974–1981 (1981 Japan edition & 2011 Japan Reissue edition) 1972–1983 (1992 U.S. edition (Hollywood Records) 1973–1982 (2004 U.S. edition (Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You) |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 58:19 (UK edition) | ||||||||||||||
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Parlophone (Europe) Hollywood (North America) Melodiya (USSR) |
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| Producer | Queen, various | ||||||||||||||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released in the UK on 26 October 1981. The album consisted of Queen's best-selling singles since their first chart appearance in 1974 with "Seven Seas of Rhye", up to their 1980 hit "Flash" (though in some countries "Under Pressure", the band's 1981 chart-topper with David Bowie, was included). There was no universal track listing or cover art for the album, and each territory's tracks were dependent on what singles had been released there and which were successful.
Queen's Greatest Hits was an instant success, peaking at number one on the UK Album Chart for four weeks. It has spent over 700 weeks in the UK Charts, and is the best-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over 6 million copies there. It is certified 8x Platinum in the United States, and is Queen's most commercially successful album worldwide with over 25 million copies sold, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien hailed Greatest Hits as "impeccable" and "absolutely genius", while British journalist Brian Viner called it the single greatest album ever made.
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 cases, 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 was released as a single in any country, but appear on some regions' 1981 Hits release. In the UK and the U.S., where solid numbers could be collected, the standard was raised again by only including top 20 hits.
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