Greatest Hits II

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There was only one track listing released worldwide, while the USA had a similar album titled ' Classic Queen' which featured other tracks from throughout Queen's career. As a result, the band's back catalog was reissued on CD, and while there were problems with the sound and grievances about certain bonus tracks, it achieved the desired result, and Queen were suddenly big news again in the States. 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. 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.

Simultaneous to the album release were the "Greatest Flix II" video assemblage ( grouped separately) as well as the "Greatest Pix II" book. Note: New videos were created for Now I'm Here, Seven Seas Of Rhye and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy for this collection, as they did not previously have music videos. Curiously, America didn't receive the album, though Hollywood Records were assembling its own collection, a variation of this album.

Accumulated sales ( Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide. 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. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. For the 1981 release, the photo was skewed, but was later presented as it was originally taken for the 2011 re-release. In some territories, despite the band's popularity, not enough songs were issued as singles to fill a compilation album, and a few album tracks were used as filler.

Apart from Under Pressure and Radio Ga Ga, all of the 17 singles here did not crack the American Top 40, but they’re well-known throughout the world, particularly the operatic anthems A Kind of Magic, I Want It All, I Want to Break Free, and Who Wants to Live Forever. Not only did it see them back on the top of the charts – both album and singles – with Innuendo and the title track, but America was finally starting to take notice of them again. Some tracks were not even singles in the US (" One Year of Love") or anywhere (" Stone Cold Crazy"). Curiously, only Under Pressure was released from Hot Space, while Scandal was also nowhere to be found. Published on the occasion of the twenty years of English training career (and less than a month before the death of Freddie Mercury!When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. In 1991, Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing. Hacemos nuestro mejor esfuerzo para entregar su pedido a tiempo, sin embargo, puede haber retrasos mientras intentamos mantener a todos a salvo. This album touches all of Queen's compelling sides, from the effortless pop of "I Want to Break Free" to the symphonic grandeur of the epic "Innuendo," this release captures the band at their most far reaching, creatively. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Ideal complement to the Greatest Hits 1 for those who want to have in two CD's most of Queen's work, this volume continues today to maintain the myth. Among the longest charting albums in the US, as of January 2024, it has spent 579 weeks on the Billboard 200 and has been certified 9× platinum in the US. This grouping collects all versions and editions of the "Greatest Hits II" compilation, originally released on 28. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Greatest Hits II reached No 1 on the UK Albums Chart and is the tenth best-selling album in UK Chart history, with sales exceeding 4 million.All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).