Greatest Hits

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Queen+ – Greatest Hits III (Album)" (ASP). Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 24 July 2011. Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 23 July 2011. Norwegiancharts.com – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 November 2021. ARIA End of Year Albums 2017". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 5 January 2018.

The album includes " These Are the Days of Our Lives" (1991), which was Freddie Mercury's last appearance in a music video, and " No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (1997), a song dedicated to Mercury which also features the last recording of bass guitarist John Deacon before his retirement. Four songs from their last studio album Made in Heaven (1995) also feature in the compilation, including " Too Much Love Will Kill You" and " Heaven for Everyone". A home video was also released in the EU and in North America but has since been long out of print, called "Greatest Flix III." The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Queen; 'Greatest Hits II ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Albums (CD's & Cassettes)". RPM. 56 (16). 17 October 1992. ISSN 0315-5994. Archived from the original (PHP/PDF) on 23 October 2012 . Retrieved 25 July 2011. It also came too late in their career, thus including things I would rather not listen to like Another One Bites The Dust and Flash. Fans would have been better served if this (or, my preference, a live album) had come out between A Day At The Races and News Of The World given the change in direction. Still, it sold a bazillion copies so what do I know?

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Let's get this part out of the way up front. I love Queen and the songs themselves are still spectacular. I have no problem awarding this a 10 based on the music alone. ARIA End of Year Albums Chart 2019". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 10 January 2020. Anderson, Sarah (12 November 2010). "The 50 best-selling albums ever". NME . Retrieved 22 February 2019. Sólo Éxitos 1959–2002 Año A Año: Certificados 1979–1990 (in Spanish). Iberautor Promociones Culturales. ISBN 8480486392. As of November 2023, Greatest Hits has spent 1,073 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified 23× platinum with sales of over seven million copies, making it the best-selling album of all time in the UK. 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. Among the longest charting albums in the US, as of November 2023, it has spent 566 weeks on the Billboard 200, and has been certified 9× platinum in the US. It has also been certified 15× platinum in Australia, 10× platinum in New Zealand, and 3× platinum in Canada. Following the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, it re-entered the charts worldwide.

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a b c Grein, Paul (17 October 1981). "Row over Rent-Only Plan for Queen Vid". Billboard. pp.3 & 84. British album certifications – Queen – Queen Platinum Collection". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 20 April 2022. Kaikkien aikojen myydyimmät ulkomaiset albumit" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland . Retrieved 27 August 2013. What the album also proves is that Queen concentrated their studio album efforts on what they truly did best (Catchy Pop Songs) then they would have probably made that great studio album instead of creating those inconsistencies that would dog their career." ( SputnikMusic) Dutchcharts.nl – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums2002". Ultratop. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021.

Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 23 February 2019. Austriancharts.at – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 November 2021. Oficjalna lista sprzedaży:: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

Offiziellecharts.de – Queen – The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 28 December 2018. Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela had "Love of My Life" (live version) instead of "Seven Seas of Rhye". All this means – for me personally – that the album doesn't reach a rating of 9 or 10, but it is good enough to be rated 7 or even 8.Copsey, Rob (1 January 2020). "The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2019". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 1 January 2020.