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* [[Shakira]] got her own Greatest Hits in Spanish after four albums... but only songs from the latter two made it, because the two first were [[Old Shame|commercial failures full of]] [[Executive Meddling]]...
* J-pop group Glay, after ''two'' Best Of albums (one of them double!), released a two-volume, two-disc-each compilation titled ''rare collectives'' compiling all the B-sides of their singles to date (most of which hadn't made into any album), plus some live recordings and a couple of version and cooperations with other artists.
* [[The Beatles]] had several: first the Red (1962-1966) and Blue (1967-1970) albums (recently re-released), then ''20 Greatest Hits'' (which never made CD), the singles-only ''Past Masters'' (re-released with the 2009 remastered albums as it compiles everything that wasn't released on an album including important stuff like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "Hey Jude"), and finally 2000's ''1'', the best selling album of [[
** As early as 1966, their British label (Parlophone) released one of these: ''A Collection of Beatles Oldies''.
** [[John Lennon]] released one greatest hits album while he was alive, ''Shaved Fish''. That one was infamous for having short versions of songs that never charted. A fair percentage of his post-mortem releases are also greatest hits albums. "The John Lennon Collection" was a bit strange because half the songs on it were from ''Double Fantasy,'' and most of John's half of ''Double Fantasy'' was on that album.
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