Greatest Hits: Red Hot Chilli Peppers

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Austriancharts.at – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013. Dutchcharts.nl – Red Hot Chili Peppers – What Hits!?" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 3, 2023. Dutchcharts.nl – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013. Australiancharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – What Hits!?". Hung Medien. Retrieved August 3, 2023. Classifica annuale 2004 (dal 29.12.2003 al 02.01.2005) – Album & Compilation" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved July 4, 2021.

While their first hits compilation album What Hits!? encompasses material from their 1984 debut to 1989's Mother's Milk, this collection of songs takes off from that point, including material from their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik up through their 2002 album By the Way. It was during this period of their career that the band became a major commercial force in the music industry. Therefore, this compilation includes the majority of hit singles released since their breakthrough cover of Stevie Wonder's " Higher Ground". ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2018". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved March 7, 2021. Swedishcharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013.

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ARIA Top 100 Albums Chart for 2022". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved January 4, 2023. Classifica annuale 2003 (dal 30.12.2002 al 28.12.2003) – Album & Compilation" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved June 27, 2021.

Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2004" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17 . Retrieved February 10, 2013. Greatest Hits was released along with a separately sold DVD containing most of their music videos from the same time period.Danish album certifications – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits". IFPI Danmark . Retrieved February 10, 2013.

The early Nineties. A ruminative ballad. Themes of loneliness and missed opportunities. Bryan Adams? Sting? No, the Chili Peppers, who not only calmed things down for this Blood Sugar Sex Magik gem but infused their music with out-of-nowhere maturity. Their gentlest and most touching song to date, “Under the Bridge” emerged from an awkward starting point. While making that album, the newly sober Kiedis found Flea and Frusciante toking up in a studio and, on the drive home, freestyled a poem and melody “to deal with my own anguish.” (The title referred to an actual overpass in L.A. where Kiedis used to get high.) He initially resisted giving the nascent song to the band — telling Rubin it was out of their wheelhouse given how “slow and dramatic and melodic” it was — but eventually Kiedis relented. What emerged was a downcast tune that still managed to soar and be hopeful (like in the way he stretches out the word “love”), leaving behind all the pain and drama that went into it. —D.B. Swisscharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013.Brunner, Rob (November 14, 2003). "The Greatest Hits Review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved May 10, 2012. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved March 7, 2021. In 2011, drummer Chad Smith discussed the recording sessions for Greatest Hits, mentioning that the band had recorded sixteen songs and wished to release an entirely new album just for this material after a brief tour; however, guitarist John Frusciante was heavily against this idea at the time, claiming that his playing style had evolved and changed too much, as had his musical influences. Smith said there was an entire Red Hot Chili Peppers album out there that nobody would ever hear. [6]

ARIA Top 100 Albums of the 10's". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved January 17, 2020. A VHS and later, DVD version of What Hits!? was also released. The video collection supersedes the 1990 video collection Positive Mental Octopus. A music video for the single "Behind the Sun" was created for this video collection and received airplay at the time on MTV. The video, which was made without the band's involvement, reuses footage from the band's "Higher Ground" music video along with newly added animation. Norwegiancharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013.Italiancharts.com – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 10, 2013. Brazilian album certifications – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits" (in Portuguese). Pro-Música Brasil . Retrieved February 10, 2013. Also absent was the top ten hits " Around the World" from their 1999 album Californication along with " The Zephyr Song" from By the Way although the DVD contained the music videos for the songs. Conversely, " Breaking the Girl" was not included on the DVD, as well as "Parallel Universe", the latter of which never had a music video released. Offiziellecharts.de – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 5 December 2021.