Greatest Hits (Aqua album)

Greatest Hits
Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 2009 (2009-06)
Recorded1996–2009
Genre
Length70:45
LabelUniversal
Producer
Aqua chronology
Cartoon Heroes: The Best of Aqua
(2002)
Greatest Hits
(2009)
Megalomania
(2011)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "Back to the 80's"
    Released: 25 May 2009
  2. "My Mamma Said"
    Released: 25 June 2009

Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album by Danish-Norwegian pop band Aqua. The album was released on 15 June 2009, on Universal. Although it is their second greatest hits album, it is the first one to be released internationally, with Cartoon Heroes: The Best of Aqua (2002) only being released in Japan. The compilation was not released on any physical or digital format in North America. Greatest Hits includes digitally remastered versions of sixteen songs from Aqua's two previous studio albums, Aquarium (1997) and Aquarius (2000), and three new songs: "Back to the 80s", "My Mamma Said", and "Live Fast – Die Young".[1] "Back to the 80s" was released as the album's lead single on 25 May 2009.

A Special Edition re-issue was released in Denmark on 16 November 2009. It includes a new song, "Spin Me a Christmas", and replaces "Be a Man" with "Good Morning Sunshine". It also includes a DVD with a live recording of Aqua at Tivoli in Copenhagen, recorded on 7 August 2009.[2] The DVD track listing features the unreleased song "Shakin' Stevens (Is a Superstar)", which supposedly were written for the band's third studio album before their split in July 2001. The song was re-written as "Sucker For a Superstar" for the band's third studio album, Megalomania (2011).

The album peaked at number one in Denmark and therefore was released in the rest of Europe on 22 September 2009, but without repeating the same success.

  1. ^ "New Aqua Greatest Hits on the way". Aquarama.tk. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  2. ^ "CD + DVD reissue for Aqua's Greatest Hits". Aquarama.tk. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved 2009-11-16.