Greatest Hits (Red Hot Chili Peppers Album)

Greatest hits
Compilation album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Publication (s)	November 17, 2003
Label (s)	Warner Music
Format (s)	CD (+ DVD)
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , funk rock
Title (number)	16 (+16)
running time	66:22
production	Rick Rubin Michael Beinhorn
chronology By the Way (2002) Greatest hits Live in Hyde Park (2004)
Single releases November 3, 2003 Fortune faded November 17, 2003 Save the population

Greatest Hits (. English for "Greatest Hits") is a best-of album by American alternative rock - band Red Hot Chili Peppers . It was released on November 17, 2003 on the Warner Bros. Records label.

content

Most of the songs on the album are previously released singles from the five most recently released studio albums by the band. These are Mother's Milk (one song), Blood Sugar Sex Magik (four tracks), One Hot Minute (one track), Californication (five tracks) and By the Way (two tracks ). Also included is Soul to Squeeze, a song from the soundtrack to the film Die Coneheads . Only the tracks Fortune Faded and Save the Population are new releases.

There are no tracks from the first three studio albums The Red Hot Chili Peppers , Freaky Styley and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan .

production

Almost all of the songs on the album were produced by music producer Rick Rubin . Only the song Higher Ground was written by Michael Beinhorn .

Cover design

The album cover shows a mouth wearing red lipstick. In the background there is a black box with a measuring instrument. At the top right of the picture are the words Red Hot Chili Peppers and Greatest Hits in black.

Track list

No.	title	length	album
1	Under the bridge	4:25	Blood Sugar Sex Magik
2	Give it away	4:43	Blood Sugar Sex Magik
3	Californication	5:21	Californication
4th	Scar tissue	3:35	Californication
5	Soul to Squeeze	4:52	Soundtrack - The Coneheads
6th	Otherside	4:15	Californication
7th	Suck my kiss	3:35	Blood Sugar Sex Magik
8th	By the way	3:35	By the way
9	Parallel Universe	4:29	Californication
10	Breaking the girl	4:54	Blood Sugar Sex Magik
11	My friends	4:08	One hot minute
12	Higher ground	3:23	Mother's Milk
13	Universally speaking	4:16	By the way
14th	Road trippin '	3:25	Californication
15th	Fortune faded	3:21	previously unpublished
16	Save the population	4:05	previously unpublished

Chart successes and singles

Chart placements (preliminary) Explanation of the data

Albums

Greatest hits   DE 4th 12/01/2003 (29 weeks)   AT 2 11/30/2003 (47 weeks)   CH 2 11/30/2003 (23 weeks)   UK 4th 11/29/2003 (...  where.)   US 18th 12/06/2003 (237 weeks)

Singles

Fortune faded   DE 46 12/01/2003 (8 weeks)   AT 68 11/30/2003 (1 week)   CH 59 07/12/2003 (3 weeks)   UK 11 11/22/2003 (9 weeks)

The best-of album entered the German charts at number 6 in the 49th calendar week of 2003 and reached the highest position in the following weeks at number 4. In total, the album stayed in the top 100 for 29 weeks, including four weeks in the top 10. In the USA, the album reached position 18. In the German annual charts in 2004, the record was ranked 49th.

The song Fortune Faded was released as a single . The song reached number 46 in Germany and stayed in the top 100 for eight weeks. The second previously unreleased track Save the Population was also released as a single, but only in Japan and Spain.

Sales figures and awards

For more than 400,000 copies sold, Greatest Hits was awarded double platinum in Germany in 2014 . In the UK, the album went quadruple platinum for over 1.2 million units sold and double platinum in the United States for over two million units. Total sales in Europe are more than three million, for which the album was awarded triple platinum in 2012.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	platinum	40,000
Australia (ARIA)	6 × platinum	420,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	(50,000)
Brazil (PMB)	gold	50,000
Denmark (IFPI)	platinum	(40,000)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × platinum	(400,000)
Europe (IFPI)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	(17,920)
France (SNEP)	gold	(100,000)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(20,000)
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA)	platinum	20,000
Italy (FIMI)	gold	(50,000)
Japan (RIAJ)	platinum	200,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	2 × platinum	30,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold	(40,000)
Austria (IFPI)	gold	(15,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	(30,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(80,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	(50,000)
United States (RIAA)	2 × platinum	2,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	5 × platinum	(1,500,000)
All in all	8 × gold 28 × platinum	6,110,000

Main article: Red Hot Chili Peppers / Music Sales Awards

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic

Eberhard Dobler from laut.de rated the album with four out of a possible five points. It represents “a successful to surprising song selection including two brand new tracks” and is filled with “tons of good Peppers numbers”.

Greatest videos

On the same day, a DVD version was also released under the name Greatest Videos , which contains an additional 16 music videos released by the group up to that point.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking Greatest Hits at musicline.de ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Red Hot Chili Peppers at billboard.com
5. ↑ DE: Annual charts # 49
6. ↑ Singles at musicline.de ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ DE: 2 × platinum
8. ↑ UK: 4 × platinum
9. ↑ US: 2 × platinum
10. ↑ EU: 3 × platinum
11. ↑ ^{a b} Evaluation: laut.de
12. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
13. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com