Rule the World – The Greatest Hits | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Tears for Fears | ||||
Released | 10 November 2017 | |||
Recorded | 1982–2017 | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 74:14 | |||
Label | Virgin EMI | |||
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Singles from Rule the World – The Greatest Hits | ||||
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Rule the World – The Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British pop/rock band Tears for Fears, released in 2017 by Virgin EMI, part of Universal Music. The compilation contains fourteen top 40 hits, taken from each of the band's first six studio albums, and two new songs: "I Love You But I'm Lost" (co-written by the band with Dan Smith of Bastille) and "Stay". "I Love You But I'm Lost" was released as a digital single on 13 October 2017.
The album peaked at No. 12 in the UK, becoming the band's sixth UK top 20 album, and has been certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry for combined units and sales in excess of 60,000 copies. A UK and European tour called the Rule the World Live 2018 was scheduled to begin in April 2018, but was postponed to 2019 due to "unforeseen health concerns".
^shipments figures based on certification alone