Greatest Hits II (Queen album)

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1981–1995 (2011 Japan reissue edition)Rock76:32Template:Ublx|2=</?t[drh][ >]|nomatch=}}|Template:Main other}}Template:Main other}} Template:Music ratings Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1991.<ref>Queen; Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. AllMusic. Retrieved 16 January 2011.</ref> The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits between 1981 and 1991, from the UK chart-topper "Under Pressure" to "The Show Must Go On".

The compilation Greatest Hits II reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in the UK with sales of 3.9 million copies as of 2014.<ref name="bpialbums">Template:Cite web</ref> It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the thirteenth best-selling album in France,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland.Template:RTemplate:R Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide.<ref>BPI – UK Best Selling Albums of All Time (14 June 2009) Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 13 June 2011</ref><ref>Queen Greatest Hits I and II Review BBC. Retrieved 17 June 2011</ref>

Freddie Mercury designed the crest on the album cover, using the astrological signs of the four members: two Leos (Roger Taylor and John Deacon), one Cancer (Brian May) and one Virgo (Mercury).<ref>Anderson, Sarah 50 Geeky Facts About Queen, NME. Accessed 28 May 2014.</ref>

Content

The compilation contains most of Queen's hits from 1981 to 1991. The singles "Body Language", "Back Chat", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "Princes of the Universe" and "Scandal" were omitted for this release. "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "Princes of the Universe" were later included on Greatest Hits III.<ref>[[[:Template:AllMusic]] "Queen - Greatest Hits III"]. Allmusic. Retrieved 25 April 2021</ref>

Release

Greatest Hits II was released less than a month before the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury and was the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive. The album was not initially made available in the United States and was replaced with its counterpart Classic Queen in early 1992 to capitalise on the band's renewed popularity in the country following the inclusion of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Greatest Hits II was later made available in the US with its inclusion in two box sets, Greatest Hits I & II in 1994, and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III in 2002. On 19 April 2011, Hollywood Records released the newly remastered version of Greatest Hits II in the United States as an individual album for the first time.

A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. Most of the videos are now available on the DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 with the exception of the videos from the 1991 Innuendo album.

Track listing

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Charts

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Weekly charts

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Top 50 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 4
Finnish Top 100 Albums<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 1
Netherlands Top 100 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
New Zealand Top 40 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
Swiss Top 100 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
UK Albums Chart<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
Chart (1992) Peak
position
Austrian Top 75 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
French Compilations<ref>Template:Cite web Find "QUEEN" under the drop-down menu to see statistics.</ref> 1
German Albums Chart<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2
Hungarian Top 40 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1
Norwegian Top 40 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 4
Portuguese Albums (AFP)<ref>Music & Media, vol. 9, issue 2; Jan 11, 1992</ref> 1
Swedish Top 60 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2
Chart (2006) Peak
position
Italian Top 100 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 28
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)<ref name="mex2018">Template:Cite web</ref> 10
Spanish Top 100 Albums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 45
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Chart (2025) Peak
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Chart (2019–2025) Peak
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Portuguese Albums (AFP)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 151

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Year-end charts

Chart (1991) Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 34
Chart (1992) Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2
Chart (1993) Position
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 28
Chart (1997) Position
German Albums Chart<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 72
Chart (2018) Position
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)<ref name="mex2018"/> 81
Chart (2019) Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 194
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 34

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Certifications and sales

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See also

References

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