Signed CD and colored cassette copies will be released in July 2021
Queen is set to issue a new collector’s edition of its 1981 Greatest Hits album on CD with exclusive slipcase cover and a limited edition cassette format on July 2nd.
In addition, the Official Queen Online Store will exclusively offer the collector’s edition Greatest Hits CD and four highly limited band member color cassettes. This version of the slipcase CD encases a CD-sized print personally signed by band members Brian May and Roger Taylor, limited to 1000 copies only and sold out as of press time.
The cassettes will also be sold separately with the Freddie Mercury cassette cover featuring a frosted aqua cassette, Brian May cover on transparent pink cassette, Roger Taylor cover on transparent green cassette and John Deacon cover on a transparent blue cassette.
Greatest Hits includes some of the world’s most iconic rock songs, including the stadium-sized symphonic chart-topper “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the most-streamed song of the 20th century around the globe and the most-streamed classic rock song of all time. Other gems featured on this compendium include the roof-raising “We Are The Champions,” the crowd rousing “We Will Rock You,” the tongue-in-cheek “Fat Bottomed Girls,” the stomp-stomp-stomp late 70’s disco inspired “Another One Bites the Dust,” to the finger-snapping jukebox retro-rock homage “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and the soaring, impassioned, gospel-tinged “Somebody To Love.”
Already wearing the crown as the UK’s biggest-selling album of all time and achieving the third-longest chart run on the UK Official Charts, Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits collection is getting a limited edition makeover to mark not only the band’s historic 50th landmark but also the album’s 40th anniversary.
First released in 1981, Greatest Hits stands alone as the first and only album to have sold over six million copies in the UK (6.75 million sales to date) with global sales in excess of 25 million.
Added to that, in the UK the collection has now spent over 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified a staggering 22× platinum.
According to the Official Charts Company who crowned it “Britain’s most popular album of the past 60 years,” one in four British households already own a copy of the album.
The reissue follows the record-breaking global success of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody feature film – earning almost $1 billion at the international box office – a new generation of faithful Queen followers has emerged ensuring that Queen’s undiminishing appeal will continue well beyond their current record-breaking achievements.
