Greatest Hits II (Queen album)

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Greatest Hits II
File:Queen - Greatest Hits 2.png
Greatest hits album by Queen
Released 28 October 1991 (UK)
19 April 2011 (U.S. and Japan)
Recorded 1981–1990
1981–1995 (2011 Japan reissue edition)
Genre Rock
Length
  • 76:32 (LP version)
  • 75:57 (CD version)
Label Parlophone (Europe)
Hollywood (North America)
Queen chronology
The Complete Works
(1985)The Complete Works1985		 Greatest Hits II
(1991)		 Classic Queen
(1992)Classic Queen1992
Alternative covers
2011 Universal Remaster
2011 Universal Remaster
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars[1]

Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released in 1991.[2] It reached No. 1 on the UK Album 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]:{{{3}}}[6]:{{{3}}}

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

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "A Kind of Magic" (from A Kind of Magic, 1986) Roger Taylor 4:22
2. "Under Pressure" (with David Bowie; from Hot Space, 1982) Queen, David Bowie 3:57
3. "Radio Ga Ga" (from The Works, 1984) Taylor 5:43
4. "I Want It All" (single mix, from The Miracle, 1989) Queen (Brian May) 4:01
5. "I Want to Break Free" (single mix, from The Works, 1984) John Deacon 4:18
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
6. "Innuendo" (from Innuendo, 1991) Queen (Mercury/Taylor) 6:27
7. "It's a Hard Life" (from The Works, 1984) Freddie Mercury 4:09
8. "Breakthru" (from The Miracle, 1989) Queen (Mercury/Taylor) 4:09
9. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (from A Kind of Magic, 1986) Brian May 5:16
Side three
No. Title Writer(s) Length
10. "Headlong" (from Innuendo, 1991) Queen (May) 4:37
11. "The Miracle" (from The Miracle, 1989) Queen (Mercury/Deacon) 5:01
12. "I'm Going Slightly Mad" (from Innuendo, 1991) Queen (Mercury) 4:22
13. "The Invisible Man" (from The Miracle, 1989) Queen (Taylor) 3:58
Side four
No. Title Writer(s) Length
14. "Hammer to Fall" (single mix, from The Works, 1984) May 3:40
15. "Friends Will Be Friends" (from A Kind of Magic, 1986) Mercury, Deacon 4:08
16. "The Show Must Go On" (from Innuendo, 1991) Queen (May) 4:37
17. "One Vision" (single mix, from A Kind of Magic, 1986) Queen (Taylor) 4:02
Total length:
 76:32

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

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)[20] Diamond 500,000
Austria (IFPI Austria)[21] 4× Platinum 200,000
Brazil (ABPD)[22] 2× Platinum 500,000
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[23] 2× Platinum 149,622[23]
France (SNEP)[24] Diamond 1,000,000
Germany (BVMI)[25] 9× Gold 2,250,000
Italy (FIMI)[26] Gold 50,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)[27] Platinum 250,000[28]
Sweden (GLF)[29] Platinum 100,000
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[30] 5× Platinum 250,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[31] 13× Platinum 3,900,000[32]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[33] 13× Platinum 13,000,000

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

See also

References

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External links

Preceded by 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
  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
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