The Greatest Hits 1970-2002

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This record/CD covers his career from the early hits to "Songs from the West Coast", the album released in 2001.

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). If you want only rarities, yes, Rare Masters - but it's not remotely a compilation of material Elton is best known for. UMG now owns worldwide distribution rights to all of John's music, while sharing overall ownership with John himself. It's not a great album nor diamond in the rough but a collection of songs most of which needed a better producer, more pruning.

The Very Best of Elton John (not released in USA) - The best hits (from European POV) from 1970-1990. I picked it up cheaply many years ago and although I've long since picked up most of his 70s stuff, it's still my one-stop go-to for a lot of his hits.Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". edition of GREATEST HITS VOLUME II that subbed in "Tiny Dancer" and "Bullet in the Gun" for "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" and "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart. A proper 50th anniversary box with 4-5 discs, chronological sequencing and various rarities would get me excited.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.ORICON STYLE-ミュージック" [Highest position and charting weeks of Your Song: Greatest Hits (1996 reissue) by Elton John]. 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. Of the ten selections for the North American album, two (" Crocodile Rock" and " Bennie and the Jets") were No.

It was the first Elton John compilation released since PolyGram, which had controlled the pre-1976 Elton John catalog, was sold to Universal Music Group, which controlled the post-1976 recordings. Greatest Hits is the eleventh official album release for English musician Elton John, and the first compilation. There is NO compilation that does a good job of covering the post 1990 era--and the forthcoming Diamonds doesn't really do that, either. For CDs Grading does not include Jewel case as these are replaceable - however any badly damaged Jewel cases will be replaced.

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.