Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1991.Queen; Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. AllMusic. Retrieved 16 January 2011. The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits between 1981 and 1991, from the UK chart-topper "Under Pressure" to "The Show Must Go On".
The compilation Greatest Hits II reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in the UK with sales of 3.9 million copies as of 2014. It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany, the thirteenth best-selling album in France, and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland. Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the US and Canada combined) are in excess of 25 million worldwide.BPI – UK Best Selling Albums of All Time (14 June 2009) , Retrieved 13 June 2011Queen Greatest Hits I and II Review BBC. Retrieved 17 June 2011
Freddie Mercury designed the crest on the album cover, using the astrological signs of the four members: two Leos (Roger Taylor and John Deacon), one Cancer (Brian May) and one Virgo (Mercury).Anderson, Sarah 50 Geeky Facts About Queen, NME. Accessed 28 May 2014.
Content The compilation contains most of Queen's hits from 1981 to 1991. The singles "Body Language", "Back Chat", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "Princes of the Universe" and "Scandal" were omitted for this release. "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "Princes of the Universe" were later included on Greatest Hits III.[ "Queen - Greatest Hits III"]. Allmusic. Retrieved 25 April 2021
Release Greatest Hits II was released less than a month before the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury and was the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive. The album was not initially made available in the United States and was replaced with its counterpart Classic Queen in early 1992 to capitalise on the band's renewed popularity in the country following the inclusion of "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World. Greatest Hits II was later made available in the US with its inclusion in two box sets, Greatest Hits I & II in 1994, and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III in 2002. On 19 April 2011, Hollywood Records released the newly remastered version of Greatest Hits II in the United States as an individual album for the first time.
A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. Most of the videos are now available on the DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 with the exception of the videos from the 1991 Innuendo album.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (1991)PeakpositionAustralian Top 50 Albums4Finnish Top 100 Albums1Netherlands Top 100 Albums1New Zealand Top 40 Albums1Swiss Top 100 Albums1UK Albums Chart1 Chart (1992)PeakpositionAustrian Top 75 Albums1French Compilations Find "QUEEN" under the drop-down menu to see statistics.1German Albums Chart2Hungarian Top 40 Albums1Norwegian Top 40 Albums4Portuguese Albums (AFP)Music & Media, vol. 9, issue 2; Jan 11, 19921Swedish Top 60 Albums2
Chart (2006)PeakpositionItalian Top 100 Albums28
Chart (2008)Peakposition Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)10Spanish Top 100 Albums45
Chart (2012)Peakposition
Chart (2025)Peakposition
Chart (2019–2025)Peakposition Portuguese Albums (AFP) 151
Year-end charts Chart (1991) Position New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 34
Chart (1992) Position Argentina Foreign Albums (CAPIF)3 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 2
Chart (1993) Position New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 28
Chart (1997)PositionGerman Albums Chart72
Chart (2018) Position Mexican Albums (AMPROFON) 81
Chart (2019) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 194 Mexican Albums (AMPROFON) 34
Certifications and sales
See also List of best-selling albums in Brazil List of best-selling albums in Finland List of best-selling albums in Germany List of best-selling albums in the Netherlands List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom
References
External links Queen official website: Discography: Greatest Hits II: includes lyrics of "Hitman."