Greatest Hits II

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Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", " These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "Princes of the Universe" were later included on Greatest Hits III. However, retrospective reviews have rated the album higher: Ira Robbins gave Greatest Hits a B+ rating in Entertainment Weekly upon its reissue in 1992, [9] and AllMusic awarded the record four and a half stars out of five. On 19 April 2011, Hollywood Records eventually released the newly remastered version of Greatest Hits II in the United States for the first time individually, [17] thus, superseding Classic Queen in the process and ultimately out of print. Following the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, it re-entered the charts worldwide.

The highest quality pressing, will serve you well for a long time and give you so much pleasure for the outlay.In the UK, the album was limited to the Queen singles that had reached the top 20 in the UK singles chart up to that point, plus " We Will Rock You", which had been the B-side of " We Are the Champions". Greatest Hits peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 in November 2020, the second-slowest ascent to the top ten of the US album chart in history. The cover photo that appeared on the UK and US release was taken by Lord Snowdon at his home studio, using only natural light. In 1992, the US version of the album Classic Queen was released following the band's rekindled popularity in the nation. It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany, [5] the thirteenth best-selling album in France, [6] and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland.

The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits between 1981 and 1991, from the UK chart-topper "Under Pressure" to "The Show Must Go On". The album was not initially available in the United States and was later replaced with its counterpart Classic Queen in early 1992 to capitalize on the band's comeback in the country following the inclusion of Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World. Hits II was a double album, whereas the initial Hits collection was a single disc, and to date it has sold over 19 million copies worldwide. The second volume of Queen’s Greatest Hits appeared a decade after the first; a decade after the group started its slow shift from international superstars toward ruling the world. However, the band had just changed record labels in the US, from Capitol to Hollywood Records, who were keen on a massive promotion of the band's back catalogue.This is a slight edit of the single version of the track which appears on the 1984 album ' The Works'. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. In June 2022, Greatest Hits spent its 1,000th week on the UK Albums Chart, and in July 2022, it reached seven million sales, with one in four households in the UK estimated to have a copy of the album.

Greatest Hits has now been certified nine times platinum in the US for sales of nine million copies, making it the band's best-selling album in that country. Curiously, only Under Pressure was released from Hot Space, while Scandal was also nowhere to be found. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. This was due to an aggressive marketing campaign by Hollywood Records, with whom Queen had signed the year before.I don’t mind some surface noise from an old weathered vinyl, but a new one is a little annoying even after cleaning multiple times. However, the song was not included on the European versions of Greatest Hits – according to Queen's business manager Jim Beach, this was because the longer manufacturing time required to press records in Europe meant that several hundred thousand copies of the album had already been pressed up before the song had been recorded. Throughout, the flamboyance and verve of the bands performances shines, highlighting exactly why they remain one of the most popular acts in the world.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Simultaneous to the album release were the "Greatest Flix II" video assemblage ( grouped separately) as well as the "Greatest Pix II" book. The album continued to sell well throughout the 1980s, appearing on several UK year-end charts, and by the end of the decade it had become the fourth-biggest selling album in the UK during the 1980s, with sales of over 1. The compilation Greatest Hits II reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in the UK with sales of 3.Greatest Hits II 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. 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. Freddie Mercury designed the crest on the album cover, using the astrological signs of the four members: two Leos (Roger Taylor and John Deacon), one Cancer (Brian May) and one Virgo (Mercury).