Consider the compilation album: Their primary purpose, of course, is to collect an artist's most critically and commercially successful songs from years gone by. In this way, they simultaneously offer ...

"Can't do a greatest hits tour without a greatest hits album!!!" the 'Girlfriend' singer announced on social media Buda Mendes/Getty Images Avril Lavigne is releasing a Greatest Hits album on June 21 ...

Looking at the roster of top-selling records, you could easily think greatest hits albums are doing better than ever. As of September, two dozen had made it onto the music industry’s list of the 200 ...

Contrary to what their names imply, “greatest hits” albums often include one or two new tracks that have never previously been in a band or artist’s discography. In some cases, a band might use the ...

The Doors will make their classic first six studio albums available on Blu-ray for the first time ever in a box set titled The Doors – Immersed 1967–1971. The six-disc collection will be released on ...

The albums were compiled by their notorious manager Allen Klein—the only favor he ever did for them. Klein also assembled the Rolling Stones’ Hot Rocks—say what you like about this old shark, he knew ...

Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time has officially received the coffee table book treatment, with the expansive tome hitting shelves today, Nov. 1, via Abrams. The new ...