Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released worldwide on 26 October 1981.

Greatest Hits peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 in November 2020, the second-slowest ascent to the top ten of the US album chart in history.

However, the song was not included on the European versions of Greatest Hits – according to Queen's business manager Jim Beach, this was because the longer manufacturing time required to press records in Europe meant that several hundred thousand copies of the album had already been pressed up before the song had been recorded.

The cover photo that appeared on the UK and US release was taken by Lord Snowdon at his home studio, using only natural light.

[4][5] In 1991, Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing.

Hollywood Records decided not to release Greatest Hits II to the US market, but instead created their own collection, Classic Queen (1992), peaking at number four on the Billboard 200 chart.

Later that year, Hollywood Records released a companion collection, Greatest Hits, with similar artwork (on a red background, where Classic Queen was on royal blue).

[7] In 1992, Hollywood Records released a VHS version to accompany the album, simply called Greatest Hits.

In NME Barney Hoskyns said, "All of [their songs], besides 'Another One Bites the Dust', are quite repulsive, unbelievably crass insults to their respective genres and uniformly vulgar music.

"[11] Melody Maker's Adam Sweeting stated, "I've never been the slightest bit interested in Queen's ridiculous pomposity and Freddie just makes me snigger, but I suppose songs like 'Killer Queen' are sort of catchy, while anything as preposterous as 'We Will Rock You' deserves an award if only for bad taste".

[8] In an interview in 2003 as part of the Arte television programme Music Planet 2Nite, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien hailed the album as "impeccable" and "absolutely genius".

[24] Greatest Hits has now been certified nine times platinum in the US for sales of nine million copies, making it the band's best-selling album in that country.