For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Back at home, the band were as high profile as ever, though moreso in the tabloids than in the music papers. There was no universal track listing or cover art for the Greatest Hits album, and each territory's tracks were dependent on what singles were released there and what tracks charted.

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. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

Commonly referred to as the Red Greatest Hits, it features most of the '70s tracks absent from Classic Queen (including " Another One Bites the Dust", "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and " Killer Queen"). In an interview in 2003 as part of the Arte television programme Music Planet 2Nite, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien hailed the album as "impeccable" and "absolutely genius". The cover photo that appeared on the UK and US release was taken by Lord Snowdon at his home studio, using only natural light. 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.

Accumulated sales ( Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide. 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. 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Accumulated sales ( Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide.Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela had "Love of My Life" (live version) instead of "Seven Seas of Rhye". If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. As one person said to me once when asked what music I liked and I replied 'Queen' they're response was, 'everyone likes Queen', I don't think they were wrong.

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". 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. This grouping collects all versions and editions of the "Greatest Hits II" compilation, originally released on 28. 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. 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.Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. 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. 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. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. In the US, Greatest Hits sold moderately well on initial release in 1981, obtaining a platinum certification.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. Much like its predecessor, a trio of packages – Hits, Flix, and Pix – was unleashed, with the "hits" collection rounding up seventeen of Queen's most beloved singles from between 1981 and 1991.