Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released worldwide on 26 October 1981. The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits since their first chart appearance in 1974 with "Seven Seas of Rhye", up to their 1980 hit "Flash". 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. In 1992, the US version of the album Classic Queen was released following the band's rekindled popularity in the nation.
The English rock group the Rolling Stones have released 30 studio albums, 30 live albums, 26 compilation albums, three extended play singles, 121 singles, 8 box sets, 47 video albums and 77 music videos. The early albums and singles released from 1963 to 1967 were originally on Decca Records in the United Kingdom, and on their subsidiary label London Records in the United States.
The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of The Essential series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early 1970s to his 2001 hit "You Rock My World".
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on 21 September 1992 through PolyGram and released in 2008 through Universal Music Australia, making it the first compilation to be released after the company had acquired Polar Music, and thus the rights to the ABBA back catalogue.
The discography of INXS, an Australian rock band, consists of 12 studio albums, 62 singles, 12 compilation albums, 4 live albums and 5 extended plays.
British rock band Queen (1971-1997) consisted of vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bassist John Deacon. Founded in 1971, Queen released their self-titled debut album in 1973. Despite not being an immediate success, Queen gained popularity in Britain with their second album Queen II in 1974. Their 1975 song, "Bohemian Rhapsody", was number 1 for nine weeks and is the third biggest selling single of all time in the UK. In the US, "Bohemian Rhapsody" hit the Billboard Top 40 charts in three different decades, reaching number 9 in its original 1975 release, number 2 in 1992 after being featured in the film Wayne's World, and hitting the top 40 once more in 2018 upon the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. The band's 1981 Greatest Hits album is the biggest selling album in UK history with 6.0 million copies sold by 2014. The band's 1991 compilation Greatest Hits II is also one of the UK's top ten biggest sellers of all time, with 3.8 million copies sold by 2012.
American singer and songwriter Pink has released eight studio albums, three live albums, five compilation albums, 49 singles, six promotional singles, and 44 music videos. In 2000, she released her debut studio album, Can't Take Me Home. It has sold four million units worldwide and yielded three singles, "There You Go", "Most Girls", and "You Make Me Sick". A year later, Pink recorded the Moulin Rouge! version of "Lady Marmalade" with Christina Aguilera, Mýa, and Lil' Kim. Later that year, Pink released her second studio album, Missundaztood, which has sold 15 million copies worldwide. The record was promoted by four singles, "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Just Like a Pill", and "Family Portrait", all of which attended commercial success.
American rock band Bon Jovi has released fifteen studio albums, three live albums, five compilation albums, five EP, sixty-six singles, fourteen video albums, and seventy-one music videos. With over 130 million records sold worldwide, Bon Jovi is one of the best-selling bands of all time. Album sales in the Unites States during the Nielsen Soundscan era (1991–2015) stood at 21.8 million units sold. The group's first commercial release was the single "Runaway" from its eponymous debut (1984), which had a modest success in the US. Its sophomore album 7800° Fahrenheit (1985) achieved bigger success than its predecessor being the band's first album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping 500,000 copies in the US.
The discography of Silverchair, an Australian alternative rock band, consists of five studio albums, one extended play (EP), nineteen singles, one live album, two compilation albums, four video albums, and twenty music videos.
The Eagles are an American rock band. Since their debut in 1972, they have released seven studio albums, two live albums, 10 compilation albums, as well as three video albums and 30 singles. Of those singles, five topped the Billboard Hot 100. The Eagles have a total of 18 Top 40 hits on the pop charts, as well as several hits on the adult contemporary chart. They are one of the best-selling popular music artists in history.
The discography of Faith No More, an American rock group, consists of seven studio albums, nineteen singles, one live album, five compilations, four video albums.
The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III is a box set by British rock band Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III. The album was originally released on 13 November 2000 on the Parlophone label. A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set. The US release was delayed by Hollywood Records until September 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2 on the US and Canadian versions of The Platinum Collection. The album peaked at number 2 in the UK.
Australian Crawl was an Australian surf / pop rock band. The band released four studio albums, two live albums, six compilations, seventeen singles, one extended play, and three video albums. These include releases credited to Australian Crawl, Australian Crawl and James Reyne, and 'Members of Australian Crawl'.
The albums discography of British-Australian recording artist Olivia Newton-John consists of twenty-eight studio albums, six live albums, seventeen compilations and four soundtracks. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, and two number-one Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. She starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history.
Ultimate Hits is a greatest hits album by Australian country musician Lee Kernaghan. It was released in September 2011, peaked at No.8 on the ARIA chart and was certified Gold in 2013.
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on October 29, 2010.
Australian singer Kylie Minogue has released fifteen studio albums, thirteen compilation albums, eight live albums, ten extended plays, eleven remix albums and two box sets. Minogue signed a recording contract with Mushroom Records in early 1987, and released her self-titled debut album the following year. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, it was distributed in the United Kingdom by Waterman's own label, PWL Records. The album spent six weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, making Minogue the youngest artist to have a number-one album at the time. It was the fifth highest-selling album of the decade in the United Kingdom, and was certified four times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
The Story So Far is a greatest hits album released by Keith Urban in Australia in May 2012.
The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You is a greatest hits album released in October 2011 by Australian rock band, Cold Chisel. It debuted at No.2 in Australia A limited edition included a bonus disc that featured a dozen of the band's most loved covers.
Diamonds is a greatest hits album by British singer-songwriter Elton John spanning his hits from 1970 to 2016. The album was released on 10 November 2017. It was released in a single disc version, a 2-CD version, a 3-CD deluxe box set and a 2-LP vinyl version. It has been described as an updated version of the 2002 compilation Greatest Hits 1970-2002, which is currently out of print. The two disc and vinyl versions have either as many or fewer songs than the previous multi-platinum collection.
