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A specific type of Compilation Album (also known as a "Best of" Album), the Greatest Hits Album consists of earlier hit singles or other successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. It's generally a great way for an artist to make a bunch of money without having to do any actual new work. It is also a great way for a record label to get a new album from an artist who has left that label or is trying to do so ASAP. To increase the possible appeal of the album, especially to people who already own the bulk of the artist's work (and thus likely to both be the biggest fans and already own all the hits), it's not uncommon to include remixes, alternate takes, live versions of popular songs, stand-alone singles that haven't yet appeared on an album (or, in the case of movie theme songs, only on a soundtrack album), and/or even a completely new song or two (which will, inevitably, be released as a single in order to promote the collection, and may or may not become a hit in its own right). Of course, all of this is likely to piss off the completists, who might find themselves being forced to pay full album price for just one or two songs (although the rise of digital music distribution has mollified this problem to a certain extent). However, Greatest Hits Albums are good purchases for casual fans of artists they otherwise have no urge to buy complete albums of. The very concept of the Greatest Hits Album is a double-edged sword, however; while such an album is likely to contain the most commercially successful of the artist's songs, it's pretty much a given that there will be at least a few critic- and/or fan-favorite B-sides and Album Filler tracks that won't appear on the disc (and thus greater resentment against the Black Sheep Hit that will inevitably be included). In hoping to appeal to the greatest number of fans, the album will end up completely pleasing no one. And at the other end of the spectrum, most bands and artists suffering from Second Album Syndrome don't have enough hits in the can to truly justify an entire album thereof, and it may seem like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel as to what may qualify as a "hit". Artists are of mixed feelings about these albums as well. Many artists resist releasing one for fear that once they do, their regular albums will begin to be ignored. (Joni Mitchell refused to allow compilation albums of her work for many years for this very reason.) Yet they are viewed as a necessary evil, as these provide an easy starting point for new fans who are curious about a particular artist's work but can't afford to purchase that artist's entire recorded output (which, in some cases, can be extensive) up front. Popular music was mainly singles-oriented until after the mid-1960s, and non-album singles were still common in Britain for longer than they were in the U.S. through the 1980s, with many of these singles only getting a stateside release on compilations. Musicians and bands don't always get to decide when to release a Greatest Hits Album. A label that acquires another artist's back catalog will often issue a new compilation to drum up sales, or to kick off a reissue/remastering campaign. If an artist is leaving the label and does not own his own back catalog, and if he is successful at all, the label will release a Greatest Hits Album — sometimes explicitly against the artist's wishes. Sometimes the "Best of" title is used instead. This often reflects a less concentrated focus on chart hits — sometimes for legitimate reasons (e.g., album-oriented artists, influential artists with less commercial success or simply those whose career may not be best reflected solely by singles). Or it could be a poor excuse to cover up a lack of genuine hits. Sometimes neither title is used (e.g. Dire Straits' compilation Money for Nothing). To add perceived weight a more scholarly phrase such as "Anthology" is often used. This can be justified where the artist has had a long career but is equally often just a pretentious affectation. If the artist's output has been released on more than one record label, any "Best Of..." LP will invariably only contain the best of whatever the artiste has recorded on that particular label, unless they managed to license tracks from another label. Therefore any truly definitive "Best Of..." LP is unlikely to appear, for copyright and royalties reasons, unless the artist's full backlog manages to move under a single party's control (whether it be their current label or themselves). As suggested by The Brunching Shuttlecocks, an easy way to determine the actual necessity of a Greatest Hits Album is to divide the number of songs on the album that actually charted, by the number of songs included on the album. Artists like The Beatles, Billy Joel, Madonna and The Beach Boys will bat nearly 1.000, whereas groups who have released Greatest Hits albums unneccesarily (i.e., One Hit Wonders) will score far lower (e.g,: Kajagoogoo has hit ratio on its greatest hits album of 0.059, Timbuk 3 has 0.071, The Best of Tiffany scores 0.083, The Best of Martika 0.067 and so on.) The most egregious example may be The Best of Shaquille O'Neal, which has 12 songs, none of which could legitimately be considered a hit, for a ratio of zero. Despite the rise of digital music distribution largely making compilation albums obsolete, the trend has gotten worse over time. It used to be a general rule that an artist would have around four albums and/or ten years worth of material before they would release a compilation but this is no longer the case. Now "best of" albums can be released after two or even a single album. There is also a trend towards releasing multiple best of albums, often with only a single original album in between releases. Some artists or record companies will even release a repackaged best of album as the follow up to the previous best of album without any original material being released in the interim. The "vinyl revival" of the 21st century has also revived the popularity of compilation albums, as they're among the best-selling vinyl albums and remain mainstays of Billboard's catalog chart. The ordering of songs can be either random or chronological (though for double-disc compilations, it can get experimental). A variation is a compilation of various artists by time period, genre, style or any combination of criteria. So you get albums with titles like Best Rock Ballads Ever, Biggest Hits of 2004, Best of the Sixties etc. Due to licensing issues, these can often omit iconic songs and/or artists. For example, Sixties compilation albums won't include anything by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or Elvis Presley (who was still popular in that decade despite his focus on moviemaking), which will make an album called Best of the Sixties a bit of letdown when it doesn't include anything by three of the decade's biggest artists. |
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Progressive metal band Dream Theater released a compilation to satisfy a contract with their now former label. Since the band only had one radio hit (the rock radio favorite "Pull Me Under") and have built their career without 'hit singles', the album is jokingly titled Dream Theater's Greatest Hit (and 21 other pretty cool songs). | |
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Despite the fact they never actually had a hit song, The Velvet Underground have two of these. One is considered generally inferior due to picking almost all of their most conventional songs; the second was more well-received. There is a slight catch with the latter compilation though - since it was released through Universal Music Group, who own the rights to every VU album except for Loaded, songs from that album had to be left out; performances of "Sweet Jane" and "Rock And Roll" from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live were included to make up for it. | |
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Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage was announced a week after the band's 2011 disbanding. This one, inspired by Changesonebowie, is their first career-spanning compilation and features the last three songs that the band recorded: "A Month of Saturdays", "We All Go Back to Where We Belong", and "Hallelujah"note the band initially considered putting these on a 16th, independently-released album, but decided to include them on the compilation instead, having already recorded Collapse into Now with the intent of making it their Grand Finale. Unlike In Time, this one does include "Shiny Happy People", the band having come to terms with it. | |
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The 1974 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album So Far consists of songs from the two studio LP's they'd recorded to that point (1969's Crosby, Stills & Nash and 1970's Déjà Vu), plus the breakout single Ohio and its B-side Find the Cost of Freedom. Sounds like a totally unnecessary endeavor, right? But it bats a respectable .454 on the Brunching Shuttlecocks metric (5 of the 11 songs on it hit the top 40), and fans were so eager for CSNY that So Far reached #1 on the charts and sold its way into Gold Record status. | |
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Some musicians focus on creating singles, mixtapes, or collaborative tracks to the extent that they can (and have) legitimately put out a Best Of compilation as their debut album. Chamillionaire and Perfume are two such artists who have done this. | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1974) by Gil Scott-Heron. | |
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The Best of British £1 Notes is a 2005 compilation that functioned as a "Best Of" album for John Lydon: Most of the album focuses on Public Image Ltd. material because that's the project he's been involved with the longest, but it also includes Sex Pistols songs, as well as solo material and two guest appearances with other artists. This time the one new track was a new Lydon solo recording called "Rabbit Song", taken from an in-progress album that apparently never got off the ground. There was also a two disc version, which added a few more PiL songs and remixes. | |
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Make that Up to Twelve for AC/DC, who wouldn't even release individual songs for Rock Band because it would compromise the integrity of the album and forced Harmonix to release it as its own disc for the game. The album in question is a live album that, incidentally, features most of their big hits. | |
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Elvis Presley: ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits turned out to have 31, as bonus track "A Little Less Conversation" topped the UK charts. And there was still material for a follow-up, 2nd to None. | |
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Faith No More had a few after the band split, with the most recent, done to promote their reunion, mixing all names used for such compilations for parody's sake: The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne has had a few. The first two, Best of Ozz and Ten Commandments, were released at the initiative of the record company in 1989 and 1990. In 1997 Ozzy released his first proper compilation, The Ozzman Cometh, which is a career retrospective with a few live cuts, unreleased songs and demos mixed in. After he became a reality TV star Sony released The Essential Ozzy Osbourne as part of their The Essential line, which covered the hits Cometh missed. After this a boxset was released and Ozzy, sick of having so many compilations pushed out in such a short time, mostly filled it with live tracks and rarities. | |
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Kirby: In 2004, the Japanese-exclusive compilation The Very Best of Kirby: 52 Hit Tracks was released as a companion piece to the soundtrack album for Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, collecting songs from throughout the franchise's history up to that point. | |
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2008's iSelect, which is unique in that it features a tracklist selected by Bowie himself, and is a collection of his personal favorites of his own songs. It includes only one of his big hits, "Life on Mars?", and has a special, exclusive version of "Time Will Crawl" with a newly recorded backing track. This track would become even more notable in 2018 for serving as the starting point for Never Let Me Down 2018. | |
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Rush has released several compilations over their career, but the most noteworthy that would be considered "greatest hits" albums are the double album Chronicles released in 1990, and The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 released in 2003. | |
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2016's Bowie Legacy, which largely repeats the tracklist of the 2-disc version of Nothing Has Changed, only adding on a couple alternate single edits, a single from Heathen, and two songs from his final album, ★. | |
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Merry Christmas (1945) by Bing Crosby. | |
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Despite only having two studio albums, Frankie Goes to Hollywood have a few greatest hits collections: Bang!... The Greatest Hits Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1993) composes of all the singles with a few album tracks mixed in (it was promoted with a successful re-release of "Relax", which backfired due to said compilation including a unreleased alternative mix). Maximum Joy (2000) focuses on the album versions of the band's songs, with a disc composing of new trance remixes. Frankie Says Greatest (2009) was released with Universal Music Group, and has a heavy focus on the hits (one version includes a extra disc with 12" mixes and rare tracks, and another is a 2LP set with a lot of remixes). Frankie Said (2012) is a "Compact Introduction" to the group, with a mix of album tracks and rare mixes. The Best Of (2013) is budget-oriented, with a regular "Frankie's best" tracklisting on disc 1 and a few 12" mixesnote Relax (Sex Mix), The Power Of Love (12" version), Two Tribes (Annihilation), Welcome to The Pleasuredome (How To Remake The World) and Rage Hard (+++*/Compacted) on Disc 2. Simply (2015) is a budget-oriented compilation, focusing on content from the Salvo-era FGTH releases. |
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The Anthology (1947–1972) (2000), a posthumous compilation of Muddy Waters songs. | |
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David Sylvian had exactly one greatest hits collection: A Victim of Stars 1982-2012, a career-spanning double-CD set covering songs from Japan's final album to the newly-recorded song "Where's Your Gravity?" | |
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Incesticide (1992) by Nirvana is somewhat of a subversion, as it only compiles a series of B-sides. | |
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Star Time (1991) by James Brown | |
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1992 saw the release of the bluntly-titled Greatest Hits, which marked the first attempt at supplanting Every Breath You Take: The Singles before 1995's The Classics. Addressing criticisms of The Singles, it featured all of the band's UK top 20 hits, including "Synchronicity II" and the 1980 version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me", both of which were left off the 1986 compilation. The album also tosses in "The Bed's Too Big Without You" and "Tea in the Sahara" as bonus tracks to fill out the disc. | |
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The Immaculate Collection which comprises of fifteen hit singles from her first decade in music and were remixed with QSound technology and two new singles "Justify My Love" and "Rescue Me". | |
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Past Masters (1988) by The Beatles, which, like both Substance albums, is mostly a collection of singles otherwise unavailable on their regular (British) studio albums. | |
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A Collection of Great Dance Songs is a 1981 collection which only included six songs, one of which ("Money") was re-recorded due to rights issues with the band's former US distributors, Capitol Records. The band themselves don't look back on it too fondly. | |
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Cirque du Soleil Collection (1996) covered Le Cirque Réinventé through AlegrÃa. | |
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PopArt: The Hits was more or less an extension of Discography as it also comprised of their post-Behaviour UK Top 20 singles (minus "Absolutely Fabulous", which did despite being a Top 20 hit didn't appear due to licencing reasons since it featured sound bites from the popular BBC sitcom of the same name, "Break 4 Love", which was only released as a US only single and "London", which was released as a single in Germany only) in addition to all singles from its predecessor (minus "Was It Worth It?", which was their only single at the time not to be a UK Top 20 hit) and two new songs "Miracles" and "Flamboyant". | |
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The soundtrack release for Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories had "Best of" as part of the album's name; it is also the only album released from the game. | |
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Robin Mark's Days Of Elijah: The Worship Songs Of Robin Mark features his best songs from Revival In Belfast, Come Heal This Land, and Revival In Belfast II. | |
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And AC/DC has two soundtrack albums that double as compilations, Who Made Who and Iron Man 2. | |
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HIStory: Past, Present, and Future -- Book I (1995) drew criticism for the way it was compiled. It was a Distinct Double Album: Disc One featured his Epic Records-era greatest hits up to that point, and Disc Two featured new material. This irked people who wanted one but not both; casual fans (and critics) didn't care about the new material aside from the singles, while hardcore fans already owned all the hits, all of which were the album versions to boot. Disc One was reissued on its own in 2001, but people who want the other tracks (especially the hit singles from the second disc like "You Are Not Alone", "Scream" and "Stranger in Moscow") still have to buy the full two-disc set. The story goes that Sony and Jackson's original plan was just to bring out a greatest hits set with a few new tracks (a project that had been in Development Hell since 1989), but after the first round of child molestation allegations against him he came up with a ton of new material. | |
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The band's first greatest hits album, Every Breath You Take: The Singles, saw mixed responses for lacking a few of their hits and replacing the Zenyattà Mondatta version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" with a radically different re-recording. In 1995, to promote the standalone reissues of the remasters from the Message in a Box Boxed Set two years prior, it was supplanted by Every Breath You Take: The Classics, which was almost identical but reinserted the 1980 version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me", shunting the 1986 version to the end of the album alongside The Not-Remix of "Message in a Bottle". The DTS and SACD releases also swap out the 1980 version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" with a previously unreleased re-recording from the same sessions as "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86". | |
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Star Trek has this with 1991's Star Trek: The Astral Symphony, a Star Trek: The Films (the first five of them) collection assembled by Cliff Eidelman for Paramount, commercially released by Milan Records. | |
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The Tragically Hip's Yer Favourites has two discs of songs chosen by fans, and unsurprisingly, all of the band's biggest singles were picked, effectively making it a greatest hits album. | |
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Muddy Waters' The Anthology 1947-1972 is a double album with the most essential recordings this blues legend made between 1947 and 1972. | |
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George Michael had two greatest hits albums: Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael, which was a double album comprising all of his hit singles at the time along with three new songs and one cover version that was released on Red Hot + Rio with notable differences of the second disc as in the American and Japanese versions, "The Strangest Thing '97" and "Fantasy" (a B-side from "Waiting for That Day" with a reworked version appearing on the album) are replaced by "Monkey" and "Hard Day", while in the former, "As" was excluded altogether, while "Waltz Away Dreaming" was exclusive to the cassette and MiniDisc versions. Twenty Five is an expanded version of the original, comprising of many songs that were included in the original though with notable exceptions in addition to four hits from his career in Wham! and two new songs and a reworking of "Heal the Pain" along with a limited edition including a third disc comprising of non-single album tracks and one new song. It also marked the first North American release from his discography to include "As" and "Shoot the Dog", both of which were excluded from their respective albums for said territory due to the former being excluded after Michael's arrest for engaging in a lewd act and the latter being excluded for its anti-war content. |
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The Rolling Stones have a lot of those, as early as 1966 by combining their singles in Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass). Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971) is their best-selling album in the United States, being certified for 12 million copies. The most comprehensive were made as Milestone Celebrations. The 40th anniversary earned Forty Licks, a two disc 40 track album with 36 hits and 4 new songs. The 50th in turn inspired GRRR!, a three disc, 50 song album with only 2 new tracks (that also got a budget version with 2 discs and 40 tracks — most shared with Forty Licks, including one of the new songs - and a deluxe edition with 4 discs, 80 songs, plus a bonus CD, bonus LP, and a few collectibles). The most recent one is Honk!, collecting the best songs starting from Sticky Fingers and going up until Blue & Lonesome, again with regular (36 songs), expanded (added 7 live tracks) and budget (20 songs) versions. | |
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Legend (1984) by Bob Marley. Though not as well-known, Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On (1995) is notable for being specifically designed as a belated "Best Of" style addendum to Legend. Legend mainly features love songs, because his songs with that theme often tended to be the most popular; In order to show a different side of the artist, Natural Mystic focuses entirely on songs with political or spiritual themes, which were mainly album tracks or lesser-known singles. |
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Madness have released no less than nine different compilation albums, only one less than their ten studio albums of new material. Some of them have virtually the same track listing, though. | |
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Jaga Jazzist. For extra irony points, the band now considers the album, Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz, to be Old Shame. | |
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Ayreonauts Only consists near-entirely of alternate versions, with two exceptions - track five was the original demo of "Carpe Diem" note which later became "Chaos", the opener for The Universal Migrator Part II: Flight of the Migrator and the closer was "Cold Metal", from Ambeon, a side-project of Ayreon creator Arjen Anthony Lucassen. | |
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Elvis Costello has The Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions from 1985, the double Girls Girls Girls in 1987, Rykodisc's The Very Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions double-disc from 1994, Extreme Honey in 1997 (which compiles his Warner (Bros.) Records years (1989-94)), The Very Best Of Elvis Costello (double-disc, 2001), Rock & Roll Music (2007), The Best Of Elvis Costello: The First Ten Years (2007), and Pomp And Pout (chronicling his stint on Universal Records ((1998-2008))). Not to mention the rarities compilations Taking Liberties (aka 10 Bloody Marys And Ten How's Yer Fathers in the UK) and Out Of Our Idiot, the boxed set 2 1/2 Years, featuring his first three studio albums and a rare live 1979 recording, and three recent boxed sets of his singles. | |
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Country music artist Phil Vassar did an interesting variation. Since he had several hits as a songwriter before he had any as a singer (and some for at least a year after his singing career began), his Greatest Hits includes both his own songs and his versions of some of his pre-fame songs (namely "I'm Alright" by Jo Dee Messina, "My Next Thirty Years" and "For a Little While" by Tim McGraw and "Little Red Rodeo" by Collin Raye). | |
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Sheryl Crow has two: The Very Best of Sheryl Crow, featuring her cover of "The First Cut is the Deepest" as a new track in both pop/rock and country versions, and Hits and Rarities, a two-disc compilation that is a slightly updated version of the former featuring newer tracks and a few older songs that were eliminated from the previous compilation, as well as a disc of live tracks and B-sides. | |
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2014's 3-disc Nothing Has Changed presents its songs in reverse chronological order, starting with the new single "Sue (or In a Season of Crime)" (later re-recorded for ★) and working all the way back to his first single, 1964's "Liza Jane", making this the first Bowie-assembled compilation to include pre-Space Oddity material. Along the way, remixes, single edits, and other rarities pop up, including three selections from his then-unreleased album Toy. A 2-disc version, with its tracklist in regular chronological order, is also available | |
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Some bands refuse to release a greatest hits album, notably AC/DC and Metallica. Radiohead also has refused to do such a compilation, but upon their departure from Parlophone Records, Radiohead: The Best of was released without their cooperation. On the other hand, Metallica has S&M, which as live albums go, doubles as a greatest hits collection complete with brand new songs And AC/DC has two soundtrack albums that double as compilations, Who Made Who and Iron Man 2. Until 2012, AC/DC took this trope up to eleven by refusing to licence their music to iTunes as they allowed individual song purchases and the band wish their music to only be available as complete albums (aside from the two soundtracks previously mentioned), so you couldn't (legally) even compile your own greatest hits collection without purchasing the actual albums. Make that Up to Twelve for AC/DC, who wouldn't even release individual songs for Rock Band because it would compromise the integrity of the album and forced Harmonix to release it as its own disc for the game. The album in question is a live album that, incidentally, features most of their big hits. |
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Famed J-rock duo B'z is a interesting case: They had released several "compilations" albums that, in practice, are like Greatest Hits albums since they compiled all their singles... but still hadn't released any official Greatest Hits Albums yet. To muddle the waters more, some of those compilations feature re-recordings of two of their signature songs, actualized for the year of release. | |
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The Complete Recordings is a 1990 compilation album with music by Robert Johnson, posthumously released and well regarded as one of the most essential musical recordings ever. | |
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The three Best of the Beach Boys volumes of the late 1960s were released by Capitol in response to their decreasing commercial success: Vol. 1 came out a few months after Pet Sounds was released to lower sales than expected, Vol. 2 was hastily assembled after Smile was shelved, and Vol. 3 was made to compensate for the poor sales of Friends. | |
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1994 saw the release of Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994, compiling various tracks from his solo career (which actually started with The Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985). The compilation includes two new songs: "When We Dance" and "This Cowboy Song". | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants released the album SpongeBob's Greatest Hits in 2009 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the series. It featured several tracks heard on previous SpongeBob albums, in addition to eight tracks never before released on a soundtrack. And to top it all off, one of those eight tracks partially inspired a future episode. | |
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Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits was the first posthumous record after Horton died at the peak of his fame. As the first album with a lot of his popular singles, combined with Posthumous Popularity Potential, it peaked at #8 on the charts and went platinum. | |
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Most complication albums of Jimmie Rodgers' recordings are more or less one since all of the recordings he did in his lifetime consisted of an individual song. | |
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The Sun Sessions (1976) by Elvis Presley. | |
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The Cult have two official best of albums, Pure Cult and High Octane Cult, but both are pretty much identical in terms of song selection. The only difference is that High Octane Cult adds two new songs and "Star", the only single they'd released in the three years between the two compilations. "Star" would later show up on a re-release of Pure Cult, but those two new tracks wouldn't. | |
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The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000) by Louis Armstrong. | |
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Johnny Mathis: Johnny's Greatest Hits (1958) is the Trope Codifier as well as the Trope Namer, the first true "greatest hits" package by any artist. It not only reached #1 on the Billboard album chart, but remained on said chart for nearly a decade (490 non-consecutive weeks), ensuring that there would be many more such albums in its wake. | |
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Japan had three main ones over the years: Assemblage, which collected songs from the band's three-album tenure on Hansa Records, Exorcising Ghosts, which focused on the two albums released under Virgin Records (plus two Hansa-era tracks), and The Very Best of Japan, a career-spanning CD. Hansa also released a number of other compilations throughout the '90s. | |
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Platinum All-Time Favorites (1995) actually made it into the National Recording Registry 20 years after its release. A follow-up album, Platinum Too, was released in 1997. | |
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Black Sabbath have had several, many of them with nearly-identical tracklists. Most compilations cover the Ozzy era, from 1970-78, with The Dio Years covering the Dio era, with three new songs recorded specifically for the compilation. The super-obscure Sabbath Stones covers the Ian Gillan, and Tony Martin era, but it wasn't released in North America. No tracks from The Seventh Star are on any Sabbath compilations, because it was a de facto Tony Iommi solo project and was only labeled a Black Sabbath album because the record label insisted upon it. After Ozzy became a TV star and the band's profile was raised the Greatest Hits starting coming out every other year before switching to an annual schedule. In 2002 they released Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978, a two-disc set that was the first band sanctioned release of the Ozzy era. It was notable for having brand new remasters, which came from the sessions that resulted in The Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978), a box set of all eight albums released two years later. And two years after that came Greatest Hits 1970–1978, which is essentially the two-disc set condensed down into one disc. Then three years later they released Greatest Hits, which was almost identical to the previous collection. And finally, in 2012 they released Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath which is identical to the previous collection. And that's just the Ozzy era. In 2007 there was a one-disc Greatest Hits collecting Dio era tunes and in 2008 there was a boxset containing all four albums. Between 2002 and 2009 there was a compilation released every year save for 2003 and 2005. |
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The Human League: The Human League Greatest Hits was released in 1988, partly as a way of recouping the costs of the critical and commercial underperformances of both Hysteria and Crash. Following the band's UK comeback in 1995, Virgin Records reissued the album with a reordered tracklist, adding a Eurodance remix of "Don't You Want Me", the Octopus track "Tell Me When", and the newly-recorded "Stay With Me Tonight" (which was released as a single to promote the compilation); the latter two tracks were licensed from EastWest Records, onto whom the band were signed. This version would be released in the US in 1998 as The Very Best of the Human League. A separate compilation, Soundtrack to a Generation, was also released in continental Europe by Virgin associate Disky Records in 1996 to further cash in on the band's renewed popularity. In 2003, Virgin put out The Very Best of the Human League (unrelated to the identically-named 1998 compilation) to coincide with the remasters of the band's first five albums. This compilation focused mostly on songs from those albums, plus the Romantic? track "Heart Like a Wheel", two songs from Octopus, and the Secrets track "All I Ever Wanted". Some versions also tossed in a bonus CD containing various remixes. In 2016, Virgin released A Very British Synthesizer Group, a two-CD retrospective compilation spanning material from the band's debut single in 1978 to their most recent album in 2011. |
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Saint Etienne have put out about half a dozen, with so many mixed up and crossed over tracklists it can be difficult to work out which is which, and which isn't an actual new album, and which ones were only released in certain areas, and... The main ones are probably Too Young To Die, Smash The System and London Conversations, but there's also You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone, Fairy Tales (Japan only), Travel Edition (US only), Boxette (a box set, natch), and several remix albums. | |
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Aerosmith has released nine so far. Two were released by the recording companies after the band was out (Columbia Records's Gems and Geffen Records's Young Lust). | |
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Queen: The two main ones — Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits II — were released in 1981 and 1991, respectively, and collected the hit singles of the preceding decade. A third album, Greatest Hits III in 1999, consists mainly of live recordings featuring guest performers and some remixes (including "Another One Bites the Dust" featuring Wycleaf Jean from the Small Soldiers soundtrack), although it does contain some songs which were left out on the first two installments. 1981's Greatest Hits was released in North America with a modified tracklist, but went out of print after Queen moved to Capitol Records in the region in 1984. Following Freddie Mercury's death and the inclusion of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World, Hollywood Records put out Classic Queen as an updated replacement to capitalize on renewed interest in the band. Later in 1992, Hollywood put out another compilation called Greatest Hits with a completely different tracklist from the 1981 versions. They also have a series called Deep Cuts, compiling non-hit single, fan favorite album tracks. 2020 saw the release of Greatest Hits in Japan, a Japan-only compilation capitalizing on the band's popularity in the region by featuring tracks voted on by fans there. |
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Sloan: A Sides Win: Singles 1992–2005, which consisted of 14 already released singles plus 2 new ones. | |
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Sting: 1994 saw the release of Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994, compiling various tracks from his solo career (which actually started with The Dream of the Blue Turtles in 1985). The compilation includes two new songs: "When We Dance" and "This Cowboy Song". In 2011, Sting released The Best of 25 Years, a retrospective compilation featuring new remixes of a few tracks alongside ones directly lifted from his earlier albums. |
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Starting with 1995's Best of the Beast, Iron Maiden released six, one every three years. They include Somewhere Back in Time, focusing on the 1980's "golden years" — and in the order the songs would be in a live concert's setlist — and From Fear to Eternity, encompassing the albums between 1990 and 2010 (though the Blaze Bayley albums are represented by live versions with Bruce Dickinson). Then there's Edward The Great, which features a full half of Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son album, yet not a single cut with original singer Di'Anno's voice. | |
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KodaKumi is infamous for these. Right after her first best-of compilation (which massively boosted her popularity), she released twelve singles in twelve weeks, all of which were put together (with an intro and one new track) and marketed as a second best-of album, only half a year later. A year after THAT, only a few months after releasing a studio album, her third best-of compilation was released as a CD + DVD collection, featuring ballads on the CD, and all-dance reshoots of her more uptempo songs on the DVD. Two studio albums later, she released a collaboration best-of, a remix album, and her third best-of album, coupled with her eighth studio album, followed by another remix album. She released yet another remix album in early 2011. In short, she has almost as many compilations as she does studio albums. | |
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Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection (2005), a posthumous compilation of Hank Williams songs, divided according to themes in his work. | |
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Richard Sherman and Milt Larsen, the gents behind the music of the film Mary Poppins, released ''Smash Flops," a 1968 collection of songs of dubious merit by different artists. Among the selections are "Columbus You Big Bag of Steam," "When Amelia Earhart Flies Home," "Watch World War III On Pay TV," "Congratulations Tom Dewey" and more. | |
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In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, a partying monster puts on Best of Little Kids Screaming. | |
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First there was Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats in 1990 (the title of which riffs on the cash-grab nature of greatest hits albums), a career-spanning set which featured a remix of the Youssou N'Dour collaboration "Shaking the Tree" and a piano re-recording of "Here Comes the Flood", based on the version from Robert Fripp's Exposure. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email compilation DVD Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits'' contained both well-known emails like "dragon" and "fan club", and other assorted hidden gems, including 5 bonus emails (not new ones, but already existing emails added as bonuses). It was made to resemble an infomercial mocking less popular sbemails; among other things, it claimed to cut through "caked on tape-leg". The DVD is no longer purchasable, which is unfortunate, as it was the only way to get creators' commentary for certain emails. | |
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2003 saw the release of Hit, another career-spanning compilation that combined a standard hits collection with Miss, a second disc featuring fan-favorite deep cuts; the tracklist for Miss was altered for the US release. The first disc additionally included a remix of "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", a song that was included on promotional copies of Up but omitted from the final tracklist. | |
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Peter Schilling's The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) was more a compilation album with material from both Error in the System and Things To Come with only the title track as its new song at the time of its release, since only "Major Tom (Coming Home)" was considered to be a hit. | |
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The first, Substance— the band's best selling album— contains all of the A-sides and most of the B-sides to the group's 12" singles up to 1987 (including re-recordings of "Temptation" and "Confusion" and new songs "True Faith" and "1963", released as a single to promote the compilation). The cassette release in their native UK includes all the band's B-sides, while the double-LP version focuses solely on the A-sides. | |
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Debbie Gibson put out a Greatest Hits album in 1995, covering most of her singles from her Teen Pop years and only a cursory glance at material from 1990 onward, plus a couple extra 12" mixes for good measure. Notably, it was the last release before spending the next decade recording and performing as Deborah Gibson. | |
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GHV2, which comprises of fiteen hit singles from her second decade in music though no new material, due to the fact she was busy shooting the remake of Swept Away at the time. Interestingly enough, it originated as a companion album for her 1999 music video compilation The Video Collection 93:99 and was going to come out in the same year to tie in with her then-upcoming world tour but it was scrapped due to her shooting The Next Best Thing as well as her pregnancy that resulted in the tour to be postponed to 2001. | |
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Sid Sings by Sid Vicious is a combination of this, Cover Album, and Live Album. It was released after Sid's early death and was nothing more than a cobbled together collection of badly produced and sang tracks. But it's the only album ever made around his name and in that regard it's as close to a greatest hits album by him you can find. | |
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Substance (1988) by Joy Division, a collection of every single, B-Side, and EP track put out by the band during their short lifetime. Like New Order's Substance, the tracks featured on Joy Division's compilation are not available on any of their proper studio albums. | |
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Adam and the Ants' Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant, The Very Best of Adam and the Ants, and Dandy Highwaymen (The Best of..). | |
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Lastly, there was The Best of Talking Heads, a single-disc collection with a considerably different tracklist than the first Once in a Lifetime compilation. This one focuses only on studio cuts (meaning the Stop Making Sense live tracks are absent) and omits "Sax and Violins" and "Lifetime Piling Up". Unlike the first Once in a Lifetime, it does include "Love → Building on Fire", which was on Sand in the Vaseline but excluded from its international counterpart. | |
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Westlife have two: Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits Volume 1, which comprised of all of their UK Top 20 hits released at the time with six new songs. The Asian and Spanish versions include a bilingual duet of their song "Flying Without Wings" aa the twentieth track, such as BoA for the former and Cristian Castro for the latter, along with the Asian version having the US mix of "A World of Our Own" instead of the original version and replaces "What Makes a Man" with their non-UK and Ireland single "I Lay My Love on You". Greatest Hits, which was available in single disc and double disc deluxe editions with four new songs. |
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ICON: A Very Special Christmas is one for the A Very Special Christmas series of albums. | |
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1994's (the best of) NewOrder adds in songs from their two post-Substance albums and their UK #1 single "World in Motion", but also contained remixes and edits for most of the tracks in place of the 12" versions (in fact, only "Thieves Like Us" appears in the same version as on Substance). The American release on Qwest Records came out a year later, replaced "The Perfect Kiss", "Shellshock" and "Thieves Like Us" with the non-single album tracks "Dreams Never End", "Age of Consent", and "Love Vigilantes" to further reduce redundancies with Substance, added in a previously unreleased vocal mix of "Let's Go" (which had previously been included in the 1987 film Salvation! as an instrumental), and replaced The Not-Remix of "1963" with the much different single mix from earlier in 1995. | |
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Gordon Lightfoot released Gord's Gold, reorchestrations of his best-known songs, after his original label re-released all of his old albums, taking advantage of his newfound popularity. | |
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