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1998 greatest hits album by 2Pac
Greatest Hits is a posthumous double-disc greatest hits album by American rapper 2Pac , released by Amaru Entertainment , Death Row Records , Interscope Records , and Jive Records on November 24, 1998.
The album's non-chronological sequence focuses on the highlights of 2Pac's career. 21 of his most popular tracks are accompanied by four previously unreleased songs: "God Bless the Dead", "Unconditional Love ", "Troublesome '96", and "Changes ". Some tracks have alternate mixes, while the original mix of "California Love " makes its first proper album appearance after initially only being available as a single.
"Changes" earned 2Pac the first, and so far only, posthumous Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance . This is one of two 2Pac releases — and one of only nine hip hop albums — to have been certified Diamond in the United States.[1]
Commercial performance
Greatest Hits debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 268,000 copies sold in its 1st week and peaked at No. 3 in January 1999. It has spent 191 weeks on the Billboard 200 .
[2] On October 16, 2000 it was certified 9× platinum. Nearly 11 years later, in June 2011, it was certified by the RIAA for shipments of over 10 million, the late rapper's second RIAA Diamond award.[3] [4] With 5.33 million units sold which is 10.66 million in RIAA sales,[5] it remains the best-selling rap greatest hits compilation of all time and the twentieth best-selling rap album since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking record sales in 1991.[6]
Tupac Shakur's virtual appearance at the annual Coachella Festival on April 15, 2012 spurred a re-entry for the album on the Billboard 200 chart; it jumped in at No. 129 with 4,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan (a gain of 571% over the previous week).[7]
The album was certified Platinum by the BPI on 16 August 2002, making it 2Pac's highest selling album in the UK.[8]
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
See also
References
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^ "Year-end Charts: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums" . Billboard . Prometheus Global Media . 1999. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .
^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2011 Albums" (PDF) . Australian Recording Industry Association . 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .
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^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (' Greatest Hits' )" . IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .
^ "British album certifications – 2Pac – Greatest Hits" . British Phonographic Industry . 2002. Retrieved December 8, 2011 . Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Greatest Hits in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
^ "American certifications – 2 Pac – Greatest Hits" . Recording Industry Association of America . June 23, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .
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