Greatest Hits (The Supremes album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
The Supremes
ReleasedAugust 29, 1967
Recorded1963–1967
Genre
Length55:02
LabelMotown
Producer
The Supremes chronology
The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart
(1967) 		Greatest Hits
(1967) 		Reflections
(1968)
European Tamla-Motown cover
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "*"The Happening" b/w "All I Know About You" (non-album)"
    Released: March 20, 1967
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits (also released as The Supremes: Greatest Hits) is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group under the new billing Diana Ross & the Supremes. Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on all album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.

It would rank as their second #1 album holding a distinction that it would take decades for another female group to achieve. The 2-LP set topped the Billboard Album Chart for 5 consecutive weeks, spending 20 weeks in the top 5 and 24 weeks total in the top 10. It remained on the Billboard Album Chart for 89 weeks. By December 28, 1968, the album had raised more than $3 million in sales.[3] Greatest Hits spent three weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart.[4] In 2018, the Official Charts Company published that The Supremes' Greatest Hits (1967) has a total of 60 weeks in the UK top 40; making it the 4th "longest-reigning Top 40 girl group album ever".[5]

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. The Supremes: Greatest Hits (Vol. 1&2) Allmusic review at Allmusic
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Fireside Books. p. 797. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  3. ^ "Motown Rocks Out Triple Play With Triple Header" (PDF). Billboard. December 28, 1968. p. 3. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  4. ^ "All The Official Albums Chart Number 1s". Official Charts Company. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  5. ^ Myers, Justin (March 27, 2018). "Little Mix's Glory Days sets UK chart record as the longest-reigning Top 40 girl group album ever". Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 29, 2019.