British Music icons Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ collection will be re-released. The re-release will be in celebration of the bands’ five-decade-long influential career and will also mark the 40th anniversary of the album which was originally released in 1981.
The band’s official Instagram page posted the news to fans.
The new ‘Greatest Hits’ collection will be available in many exclusive formats, including as a collector’s edition which will come with an exclusive slipcase cover. The collection will also be available as a limited-edition cassette format set, buyers will also be able to purchase the limited-edition colour cassettes which will each represent the band members, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. Fans can choose the colour of their cassettes based on their favourite band member. These special formats will also include prints the size of CD’s personally signed by members, Brian May and Roger Taylor. Fans will be able to get their hands on the very special edition formats from 2nd July 2021, but they will have to be quick as the special formats are limited to only 1000 copies.
The ‘Greatest Hits’ collection has proved to be a record-breaking album, the album has gone down in history with over 6 million units sold within the UK, at this point in time the collection has sold over 6.75 million copies. The album’s global sale record is even more impressive, with over 25 million units shifted. The impressive sales have made the album the only collection to have shifted over 6 million copies. The album has gone platinum over 22 times and has made chart history as the third longest-charting album in the UK. The collection has made further chart history by spending 946 weeks on the Official Albums Chart Top 100.
The collection is so popular that according to a press release, the album exists within one in four households within Britain and since the recent Queen biopic entitled ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ hit the silver screen, sales for the collection have skyrocketed even more. The collection is often seen within top curated lists for such institutions as Rolling Stone and has become an important part of the popular music canon.
The collection was originally released on 26th October 1981 and debuted on the charts at number two and made it to the number one spot the next week, it stayed at the top of the charts for four weeks. The release featured many of the band’s most beloved tracks including their famous duet with David Bowie, ‘Under Pressure’. With two sides the album boasted other such celebrated hits as ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ and of course their most famous song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
Click here to pre-order the collection on various formats.
