Johnny's Greatest Hits
Artist: Johnny Mathis
Release Date: March 17, 1958
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Sub-Genre: Pop-Soul
Record Label: Columbia
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Johnny’s Greatest Hits was the first “Greatest Hits” album collection. The album made its debut on the Best Selling Pop LPs chart in Billboard in mid-April 1958, and eventually spent three weeks at Number One. It had its last appearance there over 10 years later in late July 1968, marking a total of 490 non-consecutive week there, at the time setting the record for the most weeks on Billboard‘s list of the most popular pop albums in the US. Johnny’s Greatest Hits held the title for 15 years until Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side Of The Moon notched 491 weeks on the chart in October 1983.
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Dr. Rock's POV
Johnny's Greatest Hits was the first "Greatest Hits" album collection, and one of the best, as well. The LP spent over nine years on the Billboard 200 chart, the most by any album by any artist until Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon eclipsed the mark in 1983.
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