A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a "best of" album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new songs often being released as singles (and themselves sometimes becoming successful).

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  • A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a "best of" album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new songs often being released as singles (and themselves sometimes becoming successful). Madonna's The Immaculate Collection is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a female artist; all of the songs on it are presented in different versions than the original hit versions. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the bestselling greatest hits compilation by a duo or group and also one of the ten best selling albums in history. Johnny Mathis's Johnny's Greatest Hits (1958) is generally considered the first greatest hits album. It was popular, remaining on the Billboard Top Albums Chart for a then record-breaking 490 continuous weeks. Greatest hits albums are typically produced after an artist has had enough successful songs to fill out an album release. Some artists, such as The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Aerosmith, Kiss, Los Tigres del Norte, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Billy Joel, have released multiple greatest hits albums through their career. Some greatest hits albums are released only at the end of the artist or group's career, as was Modern Talking's The Final Album. In British pop music, when a band releases a greatest hits album, in most cases after three or four studio albums, it is usually taken as a sign that the band are about to split up. Examples include greatest hits albums by Atomic Kitten, Steps, S Club 7, Blue, Spice Girls and Take That, although the latter band would reform nine years later. Recent exceptions to this "rule" include Westlife, Girls Aloud, McFly and Sugababes, who have released new material after their greatest hits collections. Some bands refuse to release a greatest hits album, notably AC/DC and Metallica. Manic Street Preachers initially refused to do a greatest hits, but in the end Forever Delayed was released. Radiohead also refused to do such a compilation, but upon their departure from Parlophone Records, was released without their cooperation. The country music star Garth Brooks long opposed the release of a greatest hits collection, but agreed to it in 1994 but only for a limited time (his release, The Hits was quickly deleted, but not until selling well over ten million copies). Joni Mitchell 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, but she agreed to release Hits in 1996 along with a second album titled Misses, which compiled non-hit songs that Mitchell personally selected as being representative of her work. 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.
  • Un Grandes éxitos (a veces Lo mejor de) es una compilación de canciones populares y conocidas (generalmente lanzadas como sencillos, aunque no necesariamente) de un cantante o banda, y lanzada como un álbum más. Para aumentar el interés en dicho álbum (especialmente para las personas que ya tienen el material previamente lanzado), habitualmente se les agregan nuevas canciones, regrabaciones de algunos clásicos y también remixes. Generalmente cuando se graban nuevas canciones para ser incluidas dentro de un álbum de grandes éxitos, aparte también son lanzadas como sencillos promocionales de éste. Un artista generalmente lanza un álbum de grandes éxitos cuando ya tiene una carrera consolidada, con varias canciones que hayan logrado convertirse en "éxitos" (de ahí el nombre), aunque también hay algunas excepciones, como por ejemplo de artistas que con no más de dos álbumes lanzados al mercado, lanzan una compilación de grandes éxitos. En el mercado inglés son generalmente lanzados bajo el nombre de Greatest Hits, Hits, o también como compilaciones Best of', en cambio en Asia generalmente se les conoce como álbumes Best, o Best Album. Los álbumes lanzados de este tipo no necesariamente tienen que incluir sencillos, en muchas ocasiones son privilegiadas canciones preferidas por los aficionados de determinado artista, o canciones que han sido aclamadas por la crítica, donde incluso varios sencillos quedan descartados.
  • Greatest Hits est un nom assez courant de compilation des morceaux les plus populaires d'artistes anglophones. Voici une liste d'albums comportant Greatest Hits dans leur nom: Doni Greatest Hits Forever Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits 20 Greatest Hits (The Beatles) 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (James Brown) Greatest Hits (2Pac) Greatest Hits (ABBA) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (ABBA) Greatest Hits (Ace of Base) Greatest Hits (Aerosmith) Greatest Hits (Alien Ant Farm) Greatest Hits (Pat Benatar) Greatest Hits (Better Than Ezra) Greatest Hits (Björk) Greatest Hits (Boney M. ) Greatest Hits (Boston) Greatest Hits (The Byrds) Greatest Hits (Blink-182) Greatest Hits (Mariah Carey) Greatest Hits (Kenny Chesney) Greatest Hits (The Cars) Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper) Greatest Hits (Creed) Greatest Hits (album de The Cure) Greatest Hits (DVD de The Cure) Greatest Hits (DJ Laz) Greatest Hits (Elton John) Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (Elton John) Greatest Hits, Volume 3 (Elton John) Greatest Hits (Fleetwood Mac) Greatest Hits (Goldie Lookin' Chain) Greatest Hits (Al Green) Greatest Hits (Guns N' Roses) Greatest Hits (The Jackson 5) Greatest Hits (Journey) Greatest Hits (Juvenile) Greatest Hits (Lenny Kravitz) Greatest Hits Volume 2 (GHV2) (Madonna) Greatest Hits (Mandy Moore) Greatest Hits (MC Hammer) Greatest Hits (Mötley Crüe) Greatest Hits (The Oak Ridge Boys) Greatest Hits (Offspring) Greatest Hits (Paul & Paula) Greatest Hits (Tom Petty) Greatest Hits (Poison) Greatest Hits (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Greatest Hits (Spice Girls) Greatest Hits (Queen) Greatest Hits (Queensrÿche) Greatest Hits (Otis Redding) Greatest Hits (Rheostatics) Greatest Hits (Ramones) Greatest Hits (Kenny Rogers) Greatest Hits (Robbie Williams) Greatest Hits (Run-D.M.C. ) Greatest Hits (Bob Seger) Greatest Hits (Simply Red) Greatest Hits (Sly & the Family Stone) Greatest Hits (Marty Stuart) Greatest Hits (Sublime) Greatest Hits (Temptations) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Temptations) Greatest Hits (Shania Twain) Greatest Hits (Neil Young) Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Britney Spears) Greatest Hits (Thalia) Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (Korn) Greatest Hits (Patsy Cline) The Greatest Hits (INXS) The Greatest Hits (Lulu) The Greatest Hits (Texas)
  • Greatest Hits — общее название какого-либо музыкального альбома, сборника видеоклипов, сборника видеоигр или сборник телесерий, которые содержат лучшие песни, видеоклипы, игры или телевизионные серии одного создателя соответственно. Музыкальные альбомы могут также называться «Best Of» или «Single Collection», или включать в свои названия такие эпитеты, как «Gold», «Classic», «Essential» или «Ultimate», однако иногда они вообще могут быть без таких названий.
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  • A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a "best of" album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new songs often being released as singles (and themselves sometimes becoming successful).
  • Un Grandes éxitos (a veces Lo mejor de) es una compilación de canciones populares y conocidas (generalmente lanzadas como sencillos, aunque no necesariamente) de un cantante o banda, y lanzada como un álbum más. Para aumentar el interés en dicho álbum (especialmente para las personas que ya tienen el material previamente lanzado), habitualmente se les agregan nuevas canciones, regrabaciones de algunos clásicos y también remixes.
  • Greatest Hits est un nom assez courant de compilation des morceaux les plus populaires d'artistes anglophones. Voici une liste d'albums comportant Greatest Hits dans leur nom: Doni Greatest Hits Forever Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits 20 Greatest Hits (The Beatles) 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (James Brown) Greatest Hits (2Pac) Greatest Hits (ABBA) Greatest Hits Vol.
  • Greatest Hits — общее название какого-либо музыкального альбома, сборника видеоклипов, сборника видеоигр или сборник телесерий, которые содержат лучшие песни, видеоклипы, игры или телевизионные серии одного создателя соответственно.
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