Greatest Hits II

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For the 1981 release, the photo was skewed, but was later presented as it was originally taken for the 2011 re-release. This is a slight edit of the single version of the track which appears on the 1984 album ' The Works'. If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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. The album continued to sell well throughout the 1980s, appearing on several UK year-end charts, and by the end of the decade it had become the fourth-biggest selling album in the UK during the 1980s, with sales of over 1.

Greatest Hits is the band's best-selling album to date, with total sales of over 25 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. In 1991, Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing. The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits between 1981 and 1991, from the UK chart-topper "Under Pressure" to "The Show Must Go On". Greatest Hits peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 in November 2020, the second-slowest ascent to the top ten of the US album chart in history.The US version also added " Under Pressure", Queen's collaboration with David Bowie, which was released the same week as Greatest Hits and subsequently topped the UK Singles Chart and reached the top ten in many charts around the world.

It has also been certified 15× platinum in Australia, 10× platinum in New Zealand, and 3× platinum in Canada. Fourteen in total, from “A Kind Of Magic” (Highlander Soundtrack) to “The Show Must Go On”, “Under Pressure” (with David Bowie) to “Innuendo” (the last big hit), brought Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor into the very closed circle of sacred rock monsters. 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". It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany, the thirteenth best-selling album in France, and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland.This grouping collects all versions and editions of the "Greatest Hits II" compilation, originally released on 28.

In February 2014, Greatest Hits became the first album in the UK to sell over six million copies, [16] [17] and it was claimed that one in three families in the UK owned a copy.By 2006, Greatest Hits had become the best-selling album in the UK and the first album to sell more than five million copies there. Speculation was rising about the state of Freddie's health, which was being reported on an almost daily basis.