Greatest Hits (1992 Kylie Minogue album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Kylie Minogue
Released24 August 1992 (1992-08-24)
Recorded1987–1992
GenreDance-pop
Length77:47
LabelPWL
Producer
Kylie Minogue chronology
Let's Get to It
(1991) 		Greatest Hits
(1992) 		Kylie's Non-Stop History 50+1
(1993)
Kylie Minogue video chronology
Let's Get To...The Videos
(1991) 		Greatest Video Hits
(1992) 		The Kylie Tapes: 94–98
(1998)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)"
    Released: 10 August 1992
  2. "Celebration"
    Released: 16 November 1992

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The album was released on 24 August 1992 as Minogue's final release under Pete Waterman Limited (PWL). The record contains nineteen singles from the singer's first four studio albums, as well as three new songs recorded specifically for inclusion on this album. The album was largely written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman team, and its release marked the end of Minogue's professional relationship with them. It contained all her single releases to date including the Japan-only single, "Turn It into Love", featured on Kylie's first studio album in 1988.

Greatest Hits entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming Minogue's third number-one album in the United Kingdom. It charted there for eleven weeks and was later certified platinum for shipments of 300,000 copies. The album was also successful in Australia, debuting and peaking at number three and charting for fifteen weeks.[1] It was later certified platinum for shipments exceeding 70,000 copies, by Australian Recording Industry Association.[2] The album is Minogue's third number one album in the United Kingdom, after Kylie (1988) and Enjoy Yourself (1989).[3]

This compilation was superseded by 2004's Ultimate Kylie collection, with only seven tracks not being included on that 2-CD set and, later, by 2019's Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection, with only three tracks not being included on the expanded, 3-CD version of the latter. Following her release from PWL, she stated that she felt stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, saying, "I was very much a puppet in the beginning. I was blinkered by my record company. I was unable to look left or right."[4]

  1. ^ Steffen Hung (1998). "australian-charts.com". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
  2. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  3. ^ "Kylie Minogue Tops U.K. Album Chart". Billboard.
  4. ^ Shuker, p. 164