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Greatest Hits is a greatest hits 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" (though in some countries "Under Pressure", the band's 1981 chart-topper with David Bowie, was included). 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 1991, the US version of the album Classic Queen was released following the band's increase in popularity in the nation.
In the years after its release, Greatest Hits became a commercial success worldwide with sales of over 25 million copies worldwide. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, spending four weeks at the top and sold consistently well throughout the 1980s, becoming the fourth-biggest selling album of the decade. In the United States, the album sold moderately well on initial release in 1981. The single "Under Pressure", Queen's collaboration with David Bowie, which was released the same week as Greatest Hits, also topped the UK Singles Chart again.
Although initial reviews of Greatest Hits by British critics were negative, retrospective reviews have rated the album higher. British journalist Brian Viner called it the "greatest album of all time". As of October 2019, Greatest Hits has spent 868 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified 20x Platinum with sales of over 6 million copies, making it the best-selling album of all time in the UK. It has also been certified 15x Platinum in Australia, 10x Platinum in New Zealand, 8x Platinum in the United States and 3x Platinum in Canada. Following the release of the successful Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, it re-entered the charts of countries worldwide.
Tracklist
Bohemian Rhapsody
Another One Bites The Dust
Killer Queen
Fat Bottomed Girls
Bicycle Race
You're My Best Friend
Don't Stop Me Now
Save Me
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Somebody To Love
Now I'm Here
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Play The Game
Flash
Seven Seas Of Rhye
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Soundwave