In June 1996, at a press conference to announce the release of their greatest hits album Recurring Dream, Neil revealed that Crowded House were to disband.

It includes 19 of the band's greatest hits and is also available in a box set with a 25 track DVD of their music videos.

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( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

The May 8th performance was a " greatest hits " show, for the ATP " Fans Strike Back " event.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

It is an album of new recordings of ELO's greatest hits by Lynne ; along with a new song " Point of No Return " to coincide with Lynne's second solo album release Long Wave.

The song is included on Dixon's 1992 greatest hits album ( If ) I'm A Ham, Well You're A Sausage.

Jamiroquai released a greatest hits collection, High Times: Singles 1992-2006 in November 2006.

In 2006 he released Live Trucker, a greatest hits live album that failed to go platinum.

In the autumn of 2005, the group released another greatest hits compilation, in the form of Singles.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

In 2012, Columbia Records re-released Lump, a discount greatest hits compilation, without the band's approval or collaboration.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

From 1995 to the present, the label released over a dozen compilation albums featuring greatest hits, including 1999's The Ballads.

A compilation LP of Orbison's greatest hits went to number 1 in the UK in 1977.

In 2003, Crow released a greatest hits compilation called The Very Best of Sheryl Crow.

) Also released following their breakup was Lust in Phaze ( 2002 ), a greatest hits compilation including a few b-sides.

In 2002 an entire special show was dedicated to her on sister show TOTP2, in which Twain herself introduced some past performances of her greatest hits and new singles from Up!

Disc one contained a greatest hits package, very similar to " The Latest and Greatest ", with additional tracks.

As part of their severance deal, The Stranglers were forced to release a greatest hits collection, The Collection 1977 – 1982.

They released no new material during this time, although Virgin did issue two compilations-the US-only greatest hits collection Upsy Daisy Assortment, and the 2-CD set ' Best Of ' collection Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992, which featured remastered versions of their singles, including many tracks not previously issued on CD.

There was also a one-disc " greatest hits " release of highlights from Onobox, simply titled Walking on Thin Ice.

* October 3 – " Shot Heard ' Round the World ": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.

The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.

In mid-2009, after the split of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the Queen online website announced a new greatest hits compilation named Absolute Greatest.

A compilation album called Garage D ' Or was released in 2000, with one disc composed of greatest hits and three new songs, and another of out-takes, soundtrack contributions, demos and other obscurities.

After two failed attempts in 1990 and 1991, Warner Bros. finally released a greatest hits compilation with the three-disc The Hits / The B-Sides in 1993.

In the summer of 1974, the Capitol Records-era greatest hits compilation Endless Summer reached # 1 on the Billboard charts, reaffirming the relevance of The Beach Boys in the popular imagination ; nevertheless, recording sessions for a new album under the supervision of Wilson and James William Guercio at Caribou Ranch that autumn yielded only a smattering of basic tracks.

In November, he released a greatest hits compilation called Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting, which eventually was certified Double Platinum.

The album was a greatest hits compilation that included two re-recorded tracks, " I'm Gonna be Strong ", first recorded with her band Blue Angel, and a reworking of her first big hit, newly christened " Hey Now ( Girls Just Want To Have Fun )".

* On his largest-selling regular album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes ( 1977 ), Jimmy Buffett included a cover of " Biloxi " ( see above ); also, a compilation album of his digitally-remastered greatest hits was released in 1995 called Biloxi.

On November 15, DJ Q-Ball mentioned on his Facebook profile page that the band is headed to Berlin to shoot a music video for the song, which will also be included on a greatest hits compilation album.

In October the same year Virgin Records issued a greatest hits compilation album entitled Sight and Sound, which included a previously-unheard version of " Temptation " with spoken vocals by an unknown student from Germany whom the band met in 1982.

In November, 1988 a greatest hits compilation album was released that reached No. 3 in UK.

This was in the run up to a new " greatest hits " compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first " Greatest Hits " album from 1988.

A compilation of greatest hits, Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty, was released by Cooking Vinyl Records in June 2008.

* Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty ( 2008 ) – greatest hits compilation

Lump is a 2000 greatest hits compilation album by The Presidents of the United States of America.

The single was recorded to promote the " greatest hits " compilation, A Slight Case of Overbombing ( 1993 ).

The Innocents was the first of five consecutive number one albums for Erasure in the UK, including the greatest hits compilation Pop!

In 1991, Rhino Records released a new album Live in Hollywood recorded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill, as well as a compilation of her greatest Atlantic hits entitled Soul on Fire.