Greatest Hits (The Doors album)

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band the Doors, released in 1980. The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created an entirely new audience which was too young to have remembered the band years before. The album went on to become one of the highest selling compilations of all time, with combined CD and vinyl sales of 5,000,000 in the United States alone.

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
the Doors
ReleasedOctober 1980 (1980-10)
Recorded1966–1971
GenreRock
Length48:10
LabelElektra
Producer
The Doors chronology
An American Prayer
(1978)		 Greatest Hits
(1980)		 Alive, She Cried
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The album was re-released in 1996 as an enhanced CD with a different track listing and cover art. The songs "The Ghost Song", "The End" and "Love Her Madly" were added, whereas "Not to Touch the Earth" was omitted.

Track listing

All songs written by the Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore). Details are taken from the 1980 Elektra Records release and may differ from other sources.[2]

Side one
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Hello, I Love You"Waiting for the Sun (1968)2:16
2."Light My Fire"The Doors (1967)7:05
3."People Are Strange"Strange Days (1967)2:10
4."Love Me Two Times"Strange Days3:14
5."Riders on the Storm"L.A. Woman (1971)7:11
Side two
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Break On Through (To the Other Side)"The Doors2:26
2."Roadhouse Blues"Morrison Hotel (1970)4:04
3."Not to Touch the Earth"Waiting for the Sun3:55
4."Touch Me"The Soft Parade (1969)3:11
5."L.A. Woman"L.A. Woman7:49

1995 additional CD tracks

  1. "Love Her Madly" (Krieger) – 3:17
  2. "The Ghost Song" (Morrison) – 4:13
  3. "The End" – 6:28 (edited version for George S. Clinton from Apocalypse Now (1979))

Note: Japanese version of this CD has 13 tracks : Track 13 "Wintertime Love".

Personnel

The Doors

Additional musicians

Other personnel

Charts
Chart Year Position
Billboard 200 1980 17[3]

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[4] Gold 30,000^
Australia (ARIA)[5] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[6]
CD edition 		5× Platinum 500,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[6]
LP edition 		2× Platinum 200,000^
France (SNEP)[7] Gold 100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[8] Silver 60,000^
United States (RIAA)[9]
CD edition 		2× Platinum 2,000,000^
United States (RIAA)[10]
LP edition 		3× Platinum 3,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. AllMusic
  2. Greatest Hits (Album notes). The Doors. Burbank, California: Elektra Records. 1980. LP labels. SE-515.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. "The Doors Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard.com. 2019. Archived from the original on September 20, 2019.
  4. "Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  5. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020.
  6. "Canadian album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
  7. "French album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits" (in French). InfoDisc. Select DOORS and click OK. 
  8. "British album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits _1996_". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Greatest Hits _1996_ in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  9. "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _1996_". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  10. "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _LP_". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 


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