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Greatest Hits II (Queen album)

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Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released in 1991.[2] It reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in UK Chart history with sales of 3.9 million copies as of 2014, and has sold 19 million copies worldwide. Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 23 million worldwide.[3][4] It is also the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland.[5][6]

Content[]

The compilation contains most of Queen's European hits from 1981 to 1991. It 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. It was later made available in the United States in two box sets: Greatest Hits I & II and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III. On April 19, 2011, Hollywood Records released the newly remastered version of Greatest Hits II in the United States and Japan.

A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. 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 singles "Body Language", "Back Chat", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "Princes of the Universe" and "Scandal" were omitted for this release.[7]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
No.TitleLength
No.TitleLength
No.TitleLength
No.TitleLength
2011 Japan Reissue Edition
From the bonus track for Japan, Available in iTunes.
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
18."I Was Born to Love You" (From Made in Heaven, 1995)Mercury4:48
Total length:79:53

Charts[]

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Top 50 Albums[8] 4
Netherlands Top 100 Albums[9] 1
New Zealand Top 40 Albums[10] 1
Swiss Top 100 Albums[11] 1
UK Albums Chart[12] 1
Chart (1992) Peak
position
Austrian Top 75 Albums[13] 1
French Compilations[14] 1
German Albums Chart[15] 2
Hungarian Top 40 Albums[16] 1
Norwegian Top 40 Albums[17] 4
Swedish Top 60 Albums[18] 2
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Spanish Top 100 Albums[19] 45

Certifications[]

Template:Certification Table Summary
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[20] Diamond 500,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[21] 4× Platinum Expression error: Missing operand for *.*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[22] 2× Platinum 500,000*
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[23] 2× Platinum 149,622[23]
France (SNEP)[25] Diamond 1,238,700[24]
Germany (BVMI)[26] 9× Gold Expression error: Missing operand for *.^
Italy (FIMI)[27] Gold 50,000*
Mexico (AMPROFON)[29] Platinum Expression error: Missing operand for *.[28]
Sweden (GLF)[30] Platinum Expression error: Missing operand for *.^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[31] 5× Platinum 250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[33] 13× Platinum 3,900,000[32]
Europe (IFPI)[34] 13× Platinum 13,000,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

See also[]

  • List of best-selling albums in Finland
  • List of best-selling albums in Germany
  • Top best-selling albums by UK Chart

References[]

  1. ↑ Rolling Stone Album Guide
  2. ↑ Queen; Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. AllMusic. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  3. ↑ BPI – UK Best Selling Albums of All Time (14 June 2009), Retrieved 13 June 2011
  4. ↑ Queen Greatest Hits I and II Review BBC. Retrieved 17 June 2011
  5. ↑ "Kaikkien aikojen myydyimmät kotimaiset albumit" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  6. ↑ "Kaikkien aikojen myydyimmät ulkomaiset albumit" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  7. ↑ http://www.queenonline.com/en/the-band/discography/greatest-hits-ii/
  8. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Australian Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  10. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Swiss Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  12. ↑ "All the Number One Albums: 1991". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  13. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Austrian Charts (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "Les "Charts Runs" de chaque Album Classé" (PHP). InfoDisc (in French). Find "QUEEN" under the drop-down menu to see statistics.
  15. ↑ "Chartverfolgung / Queen / Longplay". Music Line (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  16. ↑ "Archivum: Top 40 Album". Mahasz (in Hungarian). Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  17. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Norwegian Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  18. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Swedish Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  19. ↑ "Queen – Greatest Hits II (Album)" (ASP). Spanish Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  20. ↑ "Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  21. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help) (in German). IFPI Austria. URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  22. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help) (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help) (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  24. ↑ "Les Meilleures Ventes de CD / Albums Tout Temps" (in French). Infodisc.fr. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  25. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help) (in French). InfoDisc. URL–wikilink conflict (help) Select QUEEN and click OK. 
  26. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Queen; 'Greatest Hits II')"] Check |url= value (help) (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  27. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help) (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. URL–wikilink conflict (help) Select "Tutti gli anni" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Greatest Hits II" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".
  28. ↑ "QUEEN Greatest Hits II Mexico Promo award disc". Eil.com. 30 September 1992. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  29. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "Certificaciones"] Check |url= value (help) (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Type Queen in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Greatest Hits II in the box under TÍTULO
  30. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998"] Check |url= value (help) (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden.
  31. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Queen; 'Greatest Hits II')"] Check |url= value (help). IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
  32. ↑ "Queen's Greatest Hits becomes first album to sell 6 million copies in the UK" (webpage). Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  33. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "[[:Template:Certification Cite/Title]]"] Check |url= value (help). British Phonographic Industry. URL–wikilink conflict (help) Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Greatest Hits (Vol II) in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  34. ↑ [[[:Template:Certification Cite/URL]] "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 1991"] Check |url= value (help). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

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Preceded by
Stars by Simply Red
Dangerous by Michael Jackson 		UK number one album
9 November 1991 – 15 November 1991
7 December 1991 – 3 January 1992 		Succeeded by
Shepherd Moons by Enya
Stars by Simply Red

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