Greatest Hits (The Notorious B.I.G. album)

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Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by The Notorious B.I.G.
Released March 6, 2007
Recorded 1994 - 2005
Genre Hip hop
Length 76:08
Label Bad Boy
The Notorious B.I.G. chronology
Duets: The Final Chapter
(2005)		 Greatest Hits
(2007)		 Notorious (soundtrack)
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 1/5 stars[2]

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by The Notorious B.I.G. The album was released on March 6, 2007 by Bad Boy Records, three days before the 10th anniversary of his death.

The album does not contain many of the Notorious B.I.G.'s biggest hits: "Mo Money Mo Problems", "Going Back to Cali", "Player's Anthem" and "Sky's the Limit".

Greatest Hits debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one in the issue dated March 14, 2007, with 100,000 copies sold in its first week of release.[3]

The album sold 178,702 units in 4 weeks. The album has sold over 600,000 copies to date.[citation needed]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Juicy"1
  2. "Big Poppa"1
  3. "Hypnotize" (feat. Pam from Total)2
  4. "One More Chance (Stay With Me Remix)" (feat. Faith Evans)7
  5. "Get Money" (with Junior M.A.F.I.A.)3
  6. "Warning"1
  7. "Dead Wrong" (feat. Eminem)4
  8. "Who Shot Ya?"4
  9. "Ten Crack Commandments"2
  10. "Notorious Thugs" (feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)2
  11. "Notorious B.I.G." (feat. Lil' Kim and Diddy)4
  12. "Nasty Girl" (feat. Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge, and Avery Storm)5
  13. "Unbelievable"1
  14. "Niggas Bleed"2
  15. "Running Your Mouth" (feat. Snoop Dogg, Fabolous, Nate Dogg, and Busta Rhymes)6
  16. "Want That Old Thing Back" (feat. Ja Rule and Ralph Tresvant)6
  17. "Fuck You Tonight" (feat. R. Kelly)2

[edit] Notes

  1. From Ready to Die
  2. From Life After Death
  3. From Conspiracy
  4. From Born Again
  5. From Duets: The Final Chapter
  6. Previously Unreleased
  7. From Bad Boy's Greatest Hits

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (2007–2009) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 1
U.S. Billboard Top Rap Albums 1
UK Albums Chart[4] 65
Canadian Albums Chart[5] 183
ARIA Australian Albums Chart 100[6]

[edit] Certifications

Country Certification
United Kingdom Gold (100,000+)[7]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ Sisario, Ben (2007-03-15). "Arts, Briefly; Notorious B.I.G. on Top". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4DC1E31F936A25750C0A9619C8B63. Retrieved 2011-11-24. 
  4. ^ http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=48018
  5. ^ http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html
  6. ^ http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/chartifacts.htm
  7. ^ http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx
Preceded by
Daughtry by Daughtry		 Billboard 200 number-one album
March 18, 2007 - March 24, 2007		 Succeeded by
Luvanmusiq by Musiq Soulchild
The Notorious B.I.G.
Junior M.A.F.I.A. – Lil' Cease · Banger · Nino Brown · MC Klepto · The Notorious B.I.G. · Lil' Kim · Bugsy · Blake C · Capone · Chico Del Vec
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