The Greatest Hits 1970-2002

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Although all of its songs are available as downloads, the album is currently out of print, having been superseded by four other greatest hits releases over the years; The Very Best of Elton John in 1990, Greatest Hits 1970–2002 in 2002, Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits in 2007 and Diamonds in 2017. A proper 50th anniversary box with 4-5 discs, chronological sequencing and various rarities would get me excited. com (also known as Esprit) has been the world's biggest and best seller of premium quality and top condition rare and vintage vinyl records, rare CD's and music memorabilia since 1985 - that's 39 years!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The Very Best Of EJ is a well-chosen hits (and good sounding) collection from 1990, but Greatest Hits Vols. Greatest Hits is the eleventh official album release for English musician Elton John, and the first compilation. John would wait until 1976 to top the singles chart in the UK, via his duet with Kiki Dee, " Don't Go Breaking My Heart. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Released in November 1974, it spans the years 1970 to 1974, compiling ten of John's singles, with one track variation for releases in North America and for Europe and Australia. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved.

It was the best-selling album of 1975 in the United States, and is his second best-selling album to date, being his first to have received an RIAA diamond certification for US sales of more than 10 million copies – as of April 2016 the album has been certified for 17 million units in the US. If you are looking for a very specific version/pressing/variant please check with us first and we can send pictures. I got both, but prefer GH3 as it compliments the previous two cd’s in a better fashion without duplicating.

The compact disc version of Greatest Hits, issued in the 1990s, features both "Bennie and the Jets" (track 7) and "Candle in the Wind" (track 8). I have enjoyed listening to these cds because they are filled with all of his best loved songs that I listened to and bought as a youth. I'd say the 3 disc version would count as being the most comprehensive collection of hit singles to date. UMG now owns worldwide distribution rights to all of John's music, while sharing overall ownership with John himself.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.That also meant the contents for his 1977 and 1987 follow-up greatest-hits albums were changed, so that "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (both from 1976) were removed from the former (these two songs being replaced on that album by "Tiny Dancer" and "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" respectively) and instated on the 1992 compilation Greatest Hits 1976-1986, which not only fulfilled his MCA deal but also replaced his 1987 Geffen compilation, Greatest Hits Volume III, 1979-1987. The Very Best of Elton John (not released in USA) - The best hits (from European POV) from 1970-1990. It topped the album chart in both the United States and the United Kingdom, staying at number one for ten consecutive weeks in the former nation and eleven weeks in the latter. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. In 2003, Greatest Hits was ranked at number 135 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [9] then was re-ranked at number 136 in a 2012 revised list.

But the three greatest hits albums are up there too (why not reissue those instead of this new Diamonds package? When I first read your thread, I thought you were asking about the 1984 MCA CD that played "Candle In The Wind" instead of the listed "Bennie And The Jets". Madman was pretty big here in the US (Top 10) - despite the fact that neither single cracked the Top 20. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.It debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 12 on 30 November 2002, for a total run of 67 weeks. I was thinking more along the lines of the old German double "Pop Chronik," a good mix of hits and album material which doesn't require an entire evening to listen to, but which goes beyond the mid-1970s. This edition follows the US LP track listing for the main album and adds "Candle In The Wind" as track 11. hits in the US; in Canada, five (these two plus " Daniel", " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me") had been chart-toppers.