| Greatest Hits | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Eurythmics |
| Cover: | Eurythmics - Greatest Hits.png |
| Recorded: | 1982–1989 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 77:19 |
| Label: | RCA |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | We Too Are One |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Live 1983–1989 |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by British pop duo Eurythmics, released on 18 March 1991 by RCA Records. It contains their successful singles spanning the years 1982 through 1990. The album topped the charts in the United Kingdom for a total of 10 weeks, in New Zealand for eight weeks and in Australia for seven weeks. It remains the duo's best-selling album worldwide and has been certified six-times platinum in the United Kingdom and triple platinum in the United States. Phil Sutcliffe in Q Magazine noted that "this compilation portrays, for once, a band accorded precise justice by the singles charts".[1]
The original European version of the album contains 18 tracks, while the version released in the US contains only 14. The five songs omitted from the US edition are "Right by Your Side", "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)", "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)", "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" and "The Miracle of Love", while "The King and Queen of America" is added. The track order also differs.
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Greatest Hits.[2]
| Peak position | |
| Belgian Albums (IFPI)[3] | 1 |
|---|---|
| Danish Albums (Hitlisten) | 4 |
| European Albums (Music & Media)[4] | 1 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[5] | 4 |
| French Albums (IFOP)[6] | 1 |
| Greek Albums (IFPI) | 2 |
| Irish Albums (IFPI) | 1 |
| Italian Albums (Musica e dischi) | 5 |
| Portuguese Albums (UNEVA)[7] | 6 |
| Spanish Albums (AFYVE) | 4 |
| Position | ||
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] | 4 | |
| Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[10] | 46 | |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[11] | 8 | |
| European Albums (Music & Media)[12] | 5 | |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] | 4 | |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[14] | 1 | |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] | 10 | |
| UK Albums (OCC)[16] | 2 |
| Position | ||
| UK Albums (OCC)[17] | 99 |
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| Position | ||
| Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[18] | 76 |
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| Greatest Hits | |
| Type: | video |
| Artist: | Eurythmics |
| Recorded: | 1982–1989 |
| Length: | 95 minutes |
| Label: | BMG Video |
| Prev Title: | We Two Are One Too |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Peacetour |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
A version of the compilation with 21 music videos was also released, on VHS and LaserDisc in 1991, and on DVD in 2000. Although it includes three more songs than the European audio version, and seven more than the US audio version, it still omits the videos for the singles "Never Gonna Cry Again" (1981), "The Walk" (1982), "Shame" (1987) and "Revival" (1989). In contrast to the audio versions of the compilation, the music videos are presented in chronological order, with short collages (made from snippets from the videos) between the songs.
