Greatest Hits (2004)

Released:
March 15, 2004 (Europe)
March 22, 2004 (Australia)
March 23, 2004 (USA)

Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine and Paradise City from the Geffen album Appetite For Destruction (1987). • Patience from the Geffen album GN'R Lies (1988). • Don't Cry Original, November Rain and Live And Let Die from the Geffen album Use Your Illusion 1 (1991). • Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Civil War, You Could Be Mine and Yesterdays from the Geffen album Use Your Illusion II (1991). • Ain't It Fun and Since I Don't Have You from the Geffen album "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993). (Ain't It Fun radio version of album track) • Sympathy For The Devil from the Geffen album Interview With The Vampire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1994)

Compilation Produced by Bill Levenson / Mastered by Gavin Lurssen at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, CA / Art Direction: Vartan / Design: meat and potatoes inc. / Production Manager: Ute Friesleben / Photography: Back cover - Ross Halfin; lnside panel & CD tray - Gene Kirkland / Photo Research: Amy Neiman & Ryan Null / Copyright: Wendy Bolger & Stacy Darrow / Tape Research: Randy Aronson, David Foster & Brendan Morris / Project Assistance: Lee Lodyga / A&R Assistance: Dana Smart

• Originally scheduled for release in November 2003.
• Went to #1 in its fifth week on the UK Album Chart on April 18th, 2004.
• The band's first UK #1 album since 1991's Use Your Illusion II.
• Has sold more than one million copies in the USA according to Soundscan.
• #10 on the best-selling albums of 2004 (worldwide).
• #13 on UK's top selling albums of 2004.
• Has spent more than 130 weeks on the Billboard Top 100 (October 2006).

Debut and peak positions on album charts by country:

#4 / 4 - Argentina
#9 / 6 - Australia
#1 / 1 - Austria
#45 / 1 - Belgium
#2 / 2 - Canada
#12 / 4 - Denmark
#6 / 1 - Finland (#1 for four weeks)
#4 / 4 - Germany
#4 / 4 - Greece
#30 / 1 - Hungary
#1 / 1 - Iceland
#1 / 1 - Ireland (#1 for six weeks)
#8 / 2 - Italy
#1 / 1 - New Zealand (#1 for four weeks)
#1 / 1 - Norway (#1 for three weeks)
#25 / 1 - Slovenia
#14 / 8 - Spain
#3 / 2 - Sweden
#3 / 2 - Switzerland
#17 / 3 - The Netherlands
#2 / 1 - UK (#1 for two weeks)
#3 / 3 - USA

Welcome To The Jungle

Live And Let Die

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Sweet Child Of Mine

November Rain

Patience

Paradise City

Civil War

You Could Be Mine

Don't Cry (original)

Yesterdays

Ain't It Fun (Radio version)

Since I Don't Have You

Sympathy For The Devil

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