Table of Contents
85 relations: A-side and B-side, ABBA Gold, AC/DC, Album, Alex Kapranos, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Britt Daniel, Changesonebowie, Christmas and holiday season, Christmas music, Compilation album, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Eagles (band), EMI, Endless Summer (The Beach Boys album), Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon, Extended play, Family Guy, Franz Ferdinand (band), Garth Brooks, Grandes éxitos, Greatest Hits (PlayStation), Greatest Hits (Queen album), Greatest Hits II (Queen album), Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Herald Sun, Hit song, Hits to the Head, Hot Rocks 1964–1971, Johnny Mathis, Johnny's Greatest Hits, Keith Richards, List of best-selling albums, List of best-selling albums in Australia, List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom, List of best-selling albums in the United States, List of Family Guy home video releases, List of largest recorded music markets, Louis Armstrong, Madonna, Metallica, Mick Jagger, More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies), Music download, New Order (band), Nintendo, Nintendo Selects, Official Charts Company, Opening act, ... Expand index (35 more) »
- Album types
- Greatest hits albums
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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ABBA Gold
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA.
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AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
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Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a British musician.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
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Britt Daniel
John Britt Daniel (born April 14, 1971) is an American musician.
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Changesonebowie
Changesonebowie is a compilation album by English musician David Bowie, issued through RCA Records in 1976.
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Christmas and holiday season
The Christmas season or the festive season; also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from late November to early January.
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Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.
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Compilation album
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers. Greatest hits album and compilation album are album types.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) was a folk-rock supergroup comprising American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.
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Eagles (band)
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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Endless Summer (The Beach Boys album)
Endless Summer is a compilation album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 24, 1974.
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Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon
Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is a greatest hits compilation album by American rock band Spoon.
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Extended play
An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. Greatest hits album and Extended play are album types.
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Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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Franz Ferdinand (band)
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002.
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Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country singer and songwriter.
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Grandes éxitos
Grandes éxitos or Grandes Éxitos may refer to.
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Greatest Hits (PlayStation)
Greatest Hits is a branding used by Sony Interactive Entertainment for discounted reprints of PlayStation video games.
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Greatest Hits (Queen album)
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released worldwide on 26 October 1981.
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Greatest Hits II (Queen album)
Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1991.
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Guitar Hero Smash Hits
Guitar Hero Smash Hits (titled Guitar Hero Greatest Hits in Europe and Australia) is a 2009 rhythm game developed by Beenox and published by Activision.
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Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.
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Hit song
A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known.
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Hits to the Head
Hits to the Head is a greatest hits album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, released on 11 March 2022 through the Domino Recording Company.
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Hot Rocks 1964–1971
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released by London Records in December 1971.
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Johnny Mathis
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.
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Johnny's Greatest Hits
Johnny's Greatest Hits is a compilation album by vocalist Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records on March 17, 1958, and has been described as the "original greatest-hits package".
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.
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List of best-selling albums
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs.
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List of best-selling albums in Australia
This is a list of best-selling albums in Australia that have been certified by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
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List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom
The best-selling album in the United Kingdom is Greatest Hits, a compilation album by the British rock band Queen that was first released in 1981.
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List of best-selling albums in the United States
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking.
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List of Family Guy home video releases
This is a list of English language Family Guy DVDs from regions 1, 2, and 4.
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List of largest recorded music markets
The world's largest recorded music markets are listed annually by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer.
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More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released in December 1972 on London Records.
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Music download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone.
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New Order (band)
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.
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Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
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Nintendo Selects
Nintendo Selects (and its predecessor, Player's Choice) is a marketing label previously used by Nintendo to promote best-selling video games on Nintendo game consoles.
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Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
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Opening act
An opening act, also known as a warm-up act, support act, supporting act or opener, is an entertainment act (musical, comedic, or otherwise), that performs at a concert before the featured act, or "headliner".
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Paste (magazine)
Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Platinum Hits
Platinum Hits is a term used to refer to a line of select Xbox games that were considered by Microsoft to have sold considerable units on the platform in the nine months after release, and have dropped in price from their original MSRP to a newer, lower price, generally that of $19.99, although multi-game packs may sell for more.
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PlayStation
is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.
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Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
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Record label
"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.
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Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.
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Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.
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Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones
Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released without the band's authorisation by its former label Decca Records in 1975.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Single (music)
In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.
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Sonic Mega Collection
is a video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2002 for the GameCube.
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Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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South Park
South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central.
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Spoon (band)
Spoon is an American rock band from Austin, Texas, consisting of members Britt Daniel (vocals, guitar), Jim Eno (drums), Alex Fischel (keyboards, guitar), Gerardo Larios (guitar, keyboards) and Ben Trokan (bass, keyboards).
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Standing on a Beach
Standing on a Beach (titled Staring at the Sea in CD format in some countries) is a greatest hits album by English rock band the Cure, released in the United States on 15 May 1986 by Elektra Records and in the United Kingdom on 19 May 1986 by Fiction Records, marking a decade since the band's founding in 1976.
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Streaming media
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.
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Substance 1987
Substance (also known as Substance 1987) is a compilation album by English alternative dance band New Order.
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Super Mario All-Stars
Super Mario All-Stars is a 1993 compilation of platform games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex.
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The Essential Bob Dylan
The Essential Bob Dylan is a compilation by Bob Dylan, released in 2000 as the inaugural entry in Sony Music's "The Essential" double-disc compilation series.
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The Hits (Garth Brooks album)
The Hits is the second compilation album, and first wide-released greatest hits album, from American country music artist Garth Brooks, released on December 13, 1994, by Liberty.
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The Immaculate Collection
The Immaculate Collection is the first greatest hits album by American singer Madonna, released on November 13, 1990, by Sire Records.
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The National (Abu Dhabi)
The National is a UAE state-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Supremes
The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
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The Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (አቤል መኮንን ተስፋዬ; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
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The White Stripes
The White Stripes were an American rock duo formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1997.
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Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released by Asylum Records on February 17, 1976.
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Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles.
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law.
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See also
Album types
- Album musical
- Book-and-record set
- Bootleg recordings
- Box set
- Budget album
- Cast recording
- Cast recordings
- Compilation album
- Compilation albums
- Concept album
- Concept albums
- Covers albums
- Demo (music)
- Double album
- EPs
- Exploito
- Extended play
- Greatest hits album
- Japanese edition
- LP record
- Live albums
- Mini-LP
- Remix album
- Remix albums
- Sampler album
- Soundtrack album
- Split album
- Split albums
- Spoken word album
- Surprise album
- Tribute albums
- Visual album
Greatest hits albums
- 16 Biggest Hits
- Greatest Hits Volume One
- Greatest Hits Volume Two
- Greatest hits album
- Icon (album series)
- List of greatest hits albums
- Yessingles
References
Also known as Best Of, Best Of (album), Best Of..., Best of album, Best-Of, Best-of album, Greatest Hit, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits (album), Greatest Hits albums, Greatest Hits: The Very Best Of, Greatest hits release, Greatest-Hits, Greatest-hits album, Original Album Classics, Singles collection, The Best (Of), The Best Of.