Greatest Hits

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A later release, National Treasures - The Complete Singles , was selected and endorsed by the band. Radiohead also refused to do such a compilation , but upon their departure from Parlophone Records , Radiohead: The Best Of was released in without their cooperation. Oasis later endorsed a second collection, Time Flies The country music star Garth Brooks long opposed the release of a greatest hits collection, but agreed to it in [5] but only for a limited time [6] his release, The Hits was quickly deleted, but not until selling well over ten million copies. Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell , known for her eclectic interest in different musical styles, also resisted releasing a greatest hits album for many years, reportedly fearing that the availability of a greatest hits compilation would lead her record label to take her actual studio albums out of print.

She agreed to release Hits in along with a second album titled Misses , which came out that same year, and the latter compiled non-hit songs that Mitchell personally selected as being representative of her work. Mitchell's assumptions proved correct as both releases earned mixed to positive critical reviews. One of the most notorious examples of a greatest hits compilation released against the artists' intentions is U. The music magazine Rolling Stone remarked that the album served as a "beautifully packaged A testament to the selling power of greatest hits albums, Hot Rocks remains the best selling album of the Rolling Stones' career.

Note that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards continue to collect significant songwriting royalties from the Hot Rocks sales, but not the ownership royalties. Greatest hits collections can also boost a falling music career. The Beautiful South 's first greatest hits album, Carry On up the Charts , was originally strongly opposed by the band. However, upon release it became one of the fastest selling albums in chart history. Often, a greatest hits VHS or DVD collection was released, which featured the music videos to the hits long before streaming websites like YouTube existed.

These were often released concurrently with a greatest hits album a more recent example being the Oasis release Time Flies Guns N' Roses would eventually release a greatest hits album in Another example of a video greatest hits without a companion audio album would be Positive Mental Octopus by the Red Hot Chili Peppers , released in However, in , the band released a video called What Hits!? Occasionally, a DVD release will feature music videos for singles that were not included on the greatest hits album.

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Whilst the greatest hits album might only contain a small number of singles, A DVD release will often contain all the band's music videos up until that point. Several bands that have experienced highly varied chart success such as being labeled ' one hit wonders ' or ' two hit wonders ' have released albums using comedic titles including things such as puns in reference to that fact in their 'best of' albums.

And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs , which came out on Rhino Records on April 1, ; the album referred openly to how their single " Pull Me Under " has such outsize knowledge compared to the rest of the band's discography. Some radio stations are emerging that only play greatest hits albums as their source material. One criticism has been including one or two new songs with a package of hits.

This trend started in the early s, and made it necessary for collectors to purchase the "greatest hits" album if they wished to have the complete catalog of an artist's songs, even if those collectors owned all the albums containing the pre-existing hits. By contract, another solution to acquire only the songs, via an online music store , may also be restricted to purchase of the album only, even online. For example, in , The Paperboys released Tenure , which out of its eighteen tracks, contains six new songs.

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The quality of a greatest hits package released early in an artist's career depends upon the artist. Elvis Presley released Elvis' Golden Records in , which only covered —, although this album still sells today, remaining in print on Compact Disc , despite the many Presley hits collections issued since. The Bee Gees released Best of Bee Gees in , only two years after their international debut, yet nine of the twelve tracks were hit singles in America.

Sly and the Family Stone released their Greatest Hits album in , after only three years. Ringo Starr 's Blast from Your Past and John Lennon 's Shaved Fish came out in , after five-year solo careers both had been in The Beatles , though none of that material was featured on either album. ZZ Top 's The Best of ZZ Top was released in , as a contractual obligation with no new tracks, but since its CD release has been popular because of its use of the original mixes of songs the CD releases of their parent albums have overdubs made in the s.

All of these compilations were well received and continue to garner critical kudos. In Japan, it is common for artists to have "greatest hits" compilations released early in their career.

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