Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits

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Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits
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Greatest hits album by
Released21 April 2017 (2017-04-21)
Recorded1966–1987
Genre Pop, rock, disco
Label Capitol
Producer Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson, Arif Mardin, Robert Stigwood, Nat Kipner
The Bee Gees chronology
1974–1979
(2015)
Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits
(2017)

Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Bee Gees. It was released on 21 April 2017 by Capitol Records to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. [1] The album is a single-disc compilation of the group's biggest hits selected by the group's last surviving member, Barry Gibb. Gibb said of the compilation: "Although there are many other songs, these songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of." [1]

Contents

Content

The album is a career spanning compilation featuring 21 tracks selected by Barry Gibb that ranges from their first Australian hit, "Spicks and Specks", to the group's international number one single, "You Win Again". Several hits are omitted, including "Holiday", "Run to Me", "Love So Right", "One" and "World".

Track listing

All compositions by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, except as indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."Spicks and Specks"Barry Gibb Spicks and Specks , 19662:51
2."New York Mining Disaster 1941"Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb Bee Gees 1st , 19672:10
3."To Love Somebody"Barry Gibb, Robin GibbBee Gees 1st, 19673:00
4."Massachusetts"  Horizontal , 19672:22
5."Words" A-side Single, 19683:17
6."I've Gotta Get a Message to You"  Idea , 19683:04
7."I Started a Joke" Idea, 19683:17
8."Lonely Days"  2 Years On , 19703:47
9."How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb Trafalgar , 19713:38
10."Jive Talkin'"  Main Course , 19753:44
11."Nights on Broadway" Main Course, 19754:33
12."Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" Main Course, 19754:04
13."You Should Be Dancing"  Children of the World , 19764:16
14."How Deep Is Your Love"  Saturday Night Fever , 19774:02
15."Stayin' Alive"  Saturday Night Fever , 19774:43
16."Night Fever"  Saturday Night Fever , 19773:32
17."More Than a Woman"  Saturday Night Fever , 19773:17
18."Too Much Heaven"  Spirits Having Flown , 19794:54
19."Tragedy" Spirits Having Flown, 19795:02
20."Love You Inside Out" Spirits Having Flown, 19794:10
21."You Win Again"  E.S.P. , 19874:03

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [13] Gold50,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [14] Platinum300,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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