Journey - Greatest Hits

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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Journey, originally released in 1988 by Columbia Records.[3] It is the band's best-selling career disc, spending 814 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart (more than any other compilation album, except for Bob Marley and the Wailers' Legend, in history).[4] Additionally, as of July 2024, it has logged 1,450 weeks on Billboard's Catalog Albums chart.[4]

On 26 January 2024, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Greatest Hits 18 Platinum for sales of 18 million copies in the United States.[5] As of January 2024, it was reported to have been the third highest certified 'greatest hits' package in the United States according to the RIAA, behind only similar collections by the Eagles and Billy Joel compilations.[6]

It continues to be one of the most popular 'best of' packages, at times selling close to 500,000 copies globally per year. The album has been reissued several times and was digitally remastered for compact disc by Legacy Recordings, issued on August 1, 2006, with "When You Love a Woman" featured as a bonus track. In Japan, the album has been reissued as Open Arms: Greatest Hits with the song "Open Arms" appearing as the first song on the album. A second Journey compilation album, Greatest Hits 2, was released in 2011.

The 1988 holiday season was red-hot in record stores across America. As shoppers perused bins filled with the biggest hits of the year from the likes of Madonna, George Michael and Guns N' Roses, a pair of legacy acts joined the racks with greatest hits releases on November 15, 1988: Fleetwood Mac and Journey.

For Fleetwood Mac, it was a chance to compile the long string of monster hits the band enjoyed from the mid-1970s through the late '80s, including "Dreams" and "Big Love." It was a similar situation for Journey, with hits ranging from the end of the '70s ("Wheel in the Sky") through the mid-'80s ("Only the Young").

Both albums would land in a lot of Christmas stockings that year. Journey's greatest hits album would peak at #10 on the Billboard 200, standing as the best-selling record in the band's storied career. It still moves a smooth half-million copies every year globally. To date, the LP has sold more than 15 million copies, making it diamond certified (more than 10 million sold).

Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits record would enjoy similar success. Peaking at #14 on the Top 200, it's flirting with diamond status at eight million copies sold. Fleetwood Mac would also share a pair of new songs to their collection: "No Questions Asked" and the Christine McVie-penned single, "As Long As You Follow." The song almost hit the Top 40, peaking at #43.

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