Greatest Hits | ||||
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Released | August 1983 | |||
Genre | Pop rock, soft rock | |||
Length | 37:27 (CD Edition) | |||
Label | Arista | |||
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Greatest Hits or Air Supply Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by British-Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, released in August 1983. It spent one week on top of the Australian ( Kent Music Report) album chart and reached number seven on the Billboard 200. [1] The Jim Steinman-written and produced track " Making Love Out of Nothing at All" had been released in July as a single. It is Air Supply's last top 10 hit in the United States, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" also reached top 10 in Canada and South Africa. The album was certified 5× platinum in 1993 in the US, denoting shipments of five million copies.
British-Australian soft rock group Air Supply had been formed in Melbourne in 1975 by vocalists Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell. [2] [3] By the late 1970s, they were based in the United States. [2] The duo had released seven studio albums, Air Supply (1976), The Whole Thing's Started, Love & Other Bruises (both 1977), Life Support (1979), Lost in Love (1980), The One That You Love (1981) and Now and Forever (1982). Their compilation album Greatest Hits or Air Supply Greatest Hits was issued on vinyl by EMI Records in Australia and Arista Records in the United States in August 1983. [2] [4] Each included a new track " Making Love Out of Nothing at All", released as a single a month earlier. [2] [4] The EMI version had 13 tracks with " Love and Other Bruises", "Bring out the Magic", " Two Less Lonely People in the World" and "Now and Forever" not included on the 9-track Arista version.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic reviewed the 1988 Arista Records version of Greatest Hits and rated it at four-out-of-five starts, "[it's] all that most Air Supply fans need, at least casual fans, but even the hardcore followers are sure to like having such a concentrated dose of hits in one package." [4] Australian writer Glenn A. Baker described how they used their "undeniably American laid-back style" to provide "six Stateside top ten hits", which are included on this compilation. [6] He considered the songs' writers, aside from band member Graham Russell, who "continued to pen excellent commercial songs, outside hitwriters (such as Lee Greenwood and the legendary Howie Greenfield) were also engaged to keep the hits flowing." [6]
All tracks are written by Graham Russell, unless otherwise noted
No. | Title | Album | Length |
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1. | " Love and Other Bruises" | Air Supply | 3:40 |
2. | "Bring out the Magic" | Life Support | 3:51 |
3. | " The One That You Love" | The One That You Love | 4:17 |
4. | " Here I Am" ( Norman Sallitt, Michael Masser, Linda Creed) | The One That You Love | 3:46 |
5. | " Sweet Dreams" | The One That You Love | 5:19 |
6. | " Lost in Love" | Lost in Love | 3:51 |
7. | "Chances" | Lost in Love | 3:32 |
8. | " Every Woman in the World" (Dominic Bugatti, Frank Musker) | Lost in Love | 3:30 |
9. | " All Out of Love" (Russell, Clive Davis) | Lost in Love | 4:01 |
10. | " Even the Nights Are Better" ( K Bell, T Skinner, J L Wallace) | Now and Forever | 3:57 |
11. | " Two Less Lonely People in the World" ( Howard Greenfield, Ken Hirsch) | Now and Forever | 3:59 |
12. | "Now and Forever" | Now and Forever | 4:18 |
13. | " Making Love Out of Nothing at All" ( Jim Steinman) | Greatest Hits | 5:15 |
Greatest Hits Arista Records (AL8-8024) [8]
Credits (tracks 1–5, 7–9)
Credits (track 6 "Making Love Out of Nothing at All")
Air Supply
Musicians
Production
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada ( Music Canada) [13] | 2× Platinum | 200,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [14] | 5× Platinum | 5,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |