Greatest heat
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Publication |
November 8, 2005 |
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Label (s) | Geffen Records , Flip Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
17th |
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running time |
71:48 |
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Greatest Hitz ( English for "Greatest Hits") is a best-of album by the US Nu-Metal band Limp Bizkit . It was released on November 8, 2005 on the Geffen Records and Flip Records labels .
content
Most of the songs on the album are previously released singles from the four studio albums released to date: Three Dollar Bill, Yall $ (two songs), Significant Other (four songs), Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (five tracks ) and Results May Vary (three pieces). Only the tracks Why , Lean on Me and Home Sweet Home / Bittersweet Symphony are new releases.
The only guest contribution on the album comes from the rapper Method Man , who can be heard in the song N 2 Gether Now .
production
The entire album was produced by the band's front man, Fred Durst , in collaboration with Liam Ward.
Cover design
The album cover is kept quite simple. It shows a pink circle that contains an opening resembling a keyhole. At the top of the picture is the band name limpbizkit in gray and at the bottom of the picture is the title Greatest Hitz in black. The background is kept white.
Track list
# | title | length | album |
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1 | Counterfeit | 4:48 | Three Dollar Bill, Yall $ |
2 | Faith | 2:26 | Three Dollar Bill, Yall $ |
3 | Nookie | 4:26 | Significant Other |
4th | Break stuff | 2:46 | Significant Other |
5 | Re-arranged | 5:54 | Significant Other |
6th | N 2 Gether Now ( feat.Method Man ) | 3:55 | Significant Other |
7th | Take a look around | 5:19 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
8th | My generation | 3:41 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
9 | Rollin '(Air Raid Vehicle) | 3:33 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
10 | My way | 4:33 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
11 | boiler | 5:44 | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
12 | Eat You Alive | 3:57 | Results May Vary |
13 | Behind blue eyes | 4:29 | Results May Vary |
14th | Build a bridge | 3:56 | Results May Vary |
15th | Why | 4:05 | previously unpublished |
16 | Lean on Me | 4:25 | previously unpublished |
17th | Home Sweet Home / Bittersweet Symphony | 3:51 | previously unpublished |
Chart successes and singles
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The best-of album rose to number 25 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for seven weeks. In the United States, the album reached number 47 and left the charts after three weeks.
Home Sweet Home / Bittersweet Symphony was released as a single . The song reached position 45 in Germany and stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks.
Sales figures and awards
For each more than 100,000 copies sold, Greatest Hitz was awarded a gold record in Germany in 2011 and in the United Kingdom in 2013 .
Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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Australia (ARIA) | gold | 35,000 |
Germany (BVMI) | gold | 100,000 |
New Zealand (RMNZ) | gold | 7,500 |
United Kingdom (BPI) | gold | 100,000 |
All in all |
4 × gold |
242,500 |
Main article: Limp Bizkit / Music Sales Awards
reception
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Reviews | |
source | rating |
laut.de | |
allmusic |
Eberhard Dobler from laut.de rated the album with three out of a possible five points. He describes it as an “obligatory best of” because “enough tracks are together”. The three new pieces are "melodic alternative rock", in which Fred Durst "tries increasingly as a singer."
Greatest Videoz
On the same day, a DVD was released with twelve music videos released by the group under the name Greatest Videoz .
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 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. AT CH UK US
- ↑ Limp Bizkit at musicline.de ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 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.
- ↑ Limp Bizkit at billboard.com
- ↑ Singles at musicline.de ( Memento of the original from March 2, 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.
- ↑ DE: Gold
- ↑ UK: Gold
- ↑ Rating: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com