Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American

People of the United States

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 rock

Rock music

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 band Boston

Boston (band)

Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...

. The album released on June 3, 1997 features songs originally released on both the Epic

Epic Records

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 and MCA

MCA Records

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 labels, as well as three previously unreleased recordings ("Higher Power", "Tell Me", and "The Star-Spangled Banner"). Tom Scholz

Tom Scholz

Donald Thomas "Tom" Scholz is an American rock musician, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, inventor, and mechanical engineer, best known as the founder of the hard rock band Boston. He is also the inventor of the Rockman guitar amplifier...

, the band's leader, felt that the album's sound quality was not up to his standards, so a remastered version of the album was released in 2009 with a slightly different track listing.

Track listing

Personnel

• Tom Scholz
  Tom Scholz
  Donald Thomas "Tom" Scholz is an American rock musician, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, inventor, and mechanical engineer, best known as the founder of the hard rock band Boston. He is also the inventor of the Rockman guitar amplifier...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , organ
  Organ (music)
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  , drums
  Drum kit
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  , clavinet
  Clavinet
  A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
  
  , keyboards, hand clapping
  Clapping
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• Brad Delp
  Brad Delp
  Bradley E. Delp was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Boston. Delp was known for his vocal histrionics, and especially his high range.-Early life:...
  
   – vocals, guitar, hand clapping
• Barry Goudreau
  Barry Goudreau
  Barry Goudreau is a musician, best known as one of the original guitarists for the rock band Boston.- Before Boston :Goudreau had developed a musical interest at an early age and got his first guitar, an acoustic which he borrowed from a friend, at age 11. He began taking lessons and by age 13,...
  
   – guitar
• Fran Sheehan
  Fran Sheehan
  Fran Sheehan is an American rock musician best known for being the bass player in the early incarnation of the rock band Boston.Fran was perhaps the most experienced musician in the original lineup of Boston. He had been gigging with his dad since he was 5 years old, & majored in vocals at the New...
  
   – bass guitar
• Sib Hashian
  Sib Hashian
  John "Sib" Hashian is a drummer who was a member of the rock band Boston during their first and most successful lineup. Hashian currently lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Sib is of Armenian descent.-Boston years:...
  
   – drums
• Jim Masdea – drums
• Gary Pihl
  Gary Pihl
  Gary Pihl is a guitarist most famous for playing for Sammy Hagar and the band Boston.At his home recording studio, Pihl worked with the founding members of a band that would eventually be called "Night Ranger." They recorded demos for their first and second albums at his home studio...
  
   – guitar
• Fran Cosmo
  Fran Cosmo
  Fran Cosmo is an American musician best known as a former lead singer of the band Boston.-Music career:Cosmo was first featured on guitarist Barry Goudreau's self titled solo album in 1980, a prelude to the formation of Orion the Hunter in 1983...
  
   – vocals
• David Sikes – bass guitar, vocals
• Doug Huffman – drums

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Canadian Top Selling Albums	61
US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	47

Chart (2008)	Peak position
US Catalog Albums Top Pop Catalog Albums Top Pop Catalog Albums is a fifty-position weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine which ranks the best selling catalog titles, regardless of genre. Billboard defines a catalog title as one that is more than eighteen months old and that has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200...	12

Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... – US	Gold	April 20, 1999
	Platinum	May 15, 2000
	2x Multi-Platinum	December 4, 2003