Compilation Albums facts
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Kiss has more greatest hits compilations (21) than studio albums (20)
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1989’s “Batman” soundtrack album was mainly composed by Prince, and is considered to be his 11th studio album, but since Prince had to agree to sign the publishing rights over to Warner Bros, none of the high-charting “Batman” songs appear on future hits compilations.
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Pete Best, the original drummer for 'The Beatles', released an album of original songs titled "Best of the Beatles" at the height of their popularity. Fans bought it thinking it was a compilation album.
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The cover of the Pink Floyd compilation album ECHOES is a real photo, and they actually built the set to capture it.
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In 1982 someone made a bootleg compilation album called "Elvis' Greatest Shit", featuring the worst songs Elvis ever recorded. On the cover was a picture of dead Elvis laying in his coffin.
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1989's "Batman" soundtrack album was mainly composed by Prince, and is considered to be his 11th studio album, but since Prince had to agree to sign the publishing rights over to Warner Bros, none of the high-charting "Batman" songs appear on future hits compilations
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Royalties from Hootie and the Blowfish's cover of "I Go Blind," allowed original composers, Canadian band, 54-40, to build their own recording studio in Vancouver. The song was featured on the TV show, "Friends," and multiple compilation albums.
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After Capitol Records refused licensing of the song, "Money", for inclusion on Pink Floyd's 1981 compilation album, A Collection of Great Dance Songs, David Gilmour re-recorded the track, providing all the guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals himself.
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Seminal hardcore punk band MDC changed their name to Mega Death Corporation when anarcho-punk collective Crass refused to include the band on a compilation album because "they were bothered by the name Millions of Dead Cops".
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The Ramones only had two albums that sold more than 500,000 copies. One was a compilation, and the other was their debut. The debut album didn't hit that mark until 2014.
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The Wu-Tang Clan has compiled and plans to release a "secret album" with only ONE pressing made available
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The 80's band Men At Work released just three studio albums to their eight compilation albums
Pink Floyd's legendary album 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' is the 7th best selling album of all time in the UK, yet it never made it to number 1 in the weekly UK album chart. It was kept off top spot by the compilation album '20 Flash Back Greats Of The 60s' - source
Fleetwood Mac's 1988 greatest-hits compilation was the last album available on 8-track tape. - source
The compilation album Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers has charted in the Billboard 200 for 992 nonconsecutive weeks. The only album to succeed this is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Lou Reed started off as a staff music writer & session musician for a record label that made compilation albums of generic cover versions of pop songs. He worked there with John Cale, leading to their founding the Velvet Underground. - source
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In 1982, a famous bootlegger, known simply as "Richard", compiled an entire album of various outtakes and blips from the late Elvis Presley's musical career, titled: "Elvis' Greatest Sh*t"
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Actor Michael Caine is a Chill Out music fanatic and released a compilation album in the Genre
The Beatles' White Album had a working title of "A Doll's House", and that artwork was commissioned for the album (and later used on an obscure compilation album, "Beatles Ballads")
The Who has twice as many compilation albums (22) as they do studio albums (11). They also have more live albums (12) than studio albums.
There was a compilation album released in 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, consisting of 37 different artists and songs and 4 record labels. The album was called Songs for Japan.
Counting original b-sides, songs for compilation albums, and exclusive music released online, Prince has released music every year since his debut in 1978.
