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Post by Michael1973 on Jan 30, 2015 12:45:45 GMT -5
It occurred to me that Air Supply released their first greatest hits album in 1983, only three years after their first American hit. Would that be a record? It never struck me before how odd it seems, an artist that new releasing a compilation album.
Another example I thought of that comes close is the Eagles' first greatest hits album from 1975.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 30, 2015 12:54:51 GMT -5
Casey cited Johnny Mathis' "Johnny's Greatest Hits' as the longest charting album in history (prior to "Dark Side of the Moon".) It was released in 1958, only one year and some months after he started having hits (early 1957.)
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Post by frente on Jan 30, 2015 13:50:04 GMT -5
I guess this is not exactly what you're talking about, but if we talk about AT40 hits rather than first (Hot 100) hit ever, I can think of at least one artist whose first AT40 hit was from a Greatest Hits album.
Anyone?
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jan 30, 2015 15:05:00 GMT -5
I do know the Jackson 5's Greatest Hits album came out two years to the week their first chart hit entered the top 40. Considering how fast their hits came, the album coincided with their eighth entry.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 30, 2015 15:24:10 GMT -5
Abba's Greatest Hits LP was their third American LP release. It charted in September 1976, two years and three months after "Waterloo" became their first US chart single.
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Post by pb on Jan 30, 2015 16:05:40 GMT -5
Elvis Presley was another quick one with the Golden Records LP just over two years after his first hit "Heartbreak Hotel."
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Post by pb on Jan 30, 2015 16:07:20 GMT -5
I guess this is not exactly what you're talking about, but if we talk about AT40 hits rather than first (Hot 100) hit ever, I can think of at least one artist whose first AT40 hit was from a Greatest Hits album. Anyone? This may or may not be who you had in mind, but Jethro Tull's first AT40 entry came with "Living In The Past," first released in 1969 before they gained a large American audience and reissued when they used it as the title track of a 1972 compilation. |
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Post by frente on Jan 30, 2015 16:40:00 GMT -5
I guess this is not exactly what you're talking about, but if we talk about AT40 hits rather than first (Hot 100) hit ever, I can think of at least one artist whose first AT40 hit was from a Greatest Hits album. Anyone? This may or may not be who you had in mind, but Jethro Tull's first AT40 entry came with "Living In The Past," first released in 1969 before they gained a large American audience and reissued when they used it as the title track of a 1972 compilation. Good one. The one I have in mind is from the Shadoe Stevens era.  |
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 30, 2015 22:56:38 GMT -5
REO Speedwagon released their first greatest hits album, "A Decade of Rock and Roll 1970 to 1980", a few months BEFORE their first AT40 hit!
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Post by rayshae3 on Jan 31, 2015 3:20:54 GMT -5
There are a few acts whose first greatest hits pre-date their first AT40 hits (whether or not those best-of albums made the Billboard 200 album chart despite them getting released in north America, or if those compilations even included those first hits). Off the top of my head, a few examples are:
-Siouxie and the Banshees first compilation called 'Once Upon a Time' (1981), while their 1st top 40 hit was in 1991 ("Kiss them for Me")
-UB40: their first singles collection came out in 1982, one year before their first US hit, the 1st run of "Red Red Wine".
-Depeche Mode. The single "People Are People" was released a few months before the first compilation album also titled 'People Are People', although the single was from an studio album called 'Some Great Reward' released a few months after the single (and that first compilation album).
-The first New Order AT40 hit "True Faith"
(1987) was from their first greatest hits album 'Substance 1987'.
-also David Bowie's 1970 album 'The World of David Bowie' was a highlight of his first studio album (plus some previously unreleased items). Whether it technically justifies as a best-of compilation or not,
it came out way before his first top 40 singles in the middle of the decade.
-Best of Bee Gees (1969) came out relatively in a short time after their first Top 40 single "New York Mining Disaster" (1967).
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Post by jlthorpe on Jan 31, 2015 9:23:10 GMT -5
Also, The Cure's "Standing on a Beach - the Singles" was released in 1986 before their first Top 40 hit "Just Like Heaven".
And then there are the acts that took years to have a Top 40 hit. The Grateful Dead had at least a couple of Greatest Hits albums before "Touch of Grey". I believe Bonnie Raitt had one as well before "Something to Talk About". And Frank Zappa had at least a couple of Greatest Hits albums with his group the Mothers of Invention before "Valley Girl".
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Post by frente on Jan 31, 2015 16:09:56 GMT -5
TKA's Maria made the AT40 in 1992. They had previous (moderate) hits, but this was their first AT40 one (it didn't make the Top 40 in the Hot 100). It was taken fron their Greatest Hits album.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 28, 2022 1:54:02 GMT -5
Nazareth had released their greatest hits in the fall of 1975, shortly before "Love Hurts" - which appeared on it several months after its studio album appearance on "Hair Of The Dog" - made the top 40, becoming their first and only top 40 hit. Most of the songs were hits on rock radio though.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 28, 2022 7:45:18 GMT -5
Add The Partridge Family (at Home With Thier Greatest Hits - from 1972) to the list.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 28, 2022 9:34:47 GMT -5
Elton John's first charted single was "Border Song (Holy Moses)" in 1970-Four years later,his first greatest hits album went to # 1.
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