Greatest Hits II (Queen album)
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| Greatest hits album by Queen | ||||
| Released | 28 October 1991 (UK) 19 April 2011 (U.S. and Japan) |
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| Recorded | 1981–1990 1981–1995 (2011 Japan reissue edition) |
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| Genre | Rock | |||
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Parlophone (Europe) Hollywood (North America) |
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2011 Universal Remaster
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Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released in 1991. It reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in UK Chart history with sales of 3.9 million copies as of 2014, and has sold 19 million copies worldwide. Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 23 million worldwide. It is also the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland.
The compilation contains most of Queen's European hits from 1981 to 1991. It was released less than a month before the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury and was the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive. It was later made available in the United States in two box sets: Greatest Hits I & II and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III. On April 19, 2011, Hollywood Records released the newly remastered version of Greatest Hits II in the United States and Japan.
A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. Most of the videos are now available on the DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 with the exception of the videos from the 1991 Innuendo album.
The singles "Body Language", "Back Chat", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "Princes of the Universe" and "Scandal" were omitted for this release.
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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