Red Hot Chili Peppers — Greatest Hits 2xLP

Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album and second compilation album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on Nov. 18, 2003, by Warner Bros. Records. Aside from their cover of «Higher Ground», all songs on the album are from the band’s tenure on Warner Bros. Records from 1991 to 2002, in addition to two newly recorded songs.

Greatest Hits was released along with a separately sold DVD containing most of their music videos from the same time period.

The album was released with Copy Control protection system in some European markets, but not in the United States.

Overview
While their first hits compilation album What Hits!? encompasses material from their 1984 debut to 1989’s Mother’s Milk, this collection of songs takes off from that point, including material from their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik up through their 2002 album By the Way. It was during this period of their career that the band became a major commercial force in the music industry. Therefore, this compilation includes the majority of hit singles released since their breakthrough cover of Stevie Wonder’s «Higher Ground».

«My Friends» is the only track included from the 1995 album, One Hot Minute. However, the music video for «Aeroplane» is featured on the DVD version of the compilation. «Warped», the lead single from One Hot Minute, is also absent as both a song and music video on the DVD.

Of the band’s eight U.S. number-one singles on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart up to that point, only one, «Can’t Stop», from their 2002 album By the Way, was excluded, though the music video was featured on the DVD.

Also absent were top-10 hits «Around the World,» from their 1999 album Californication and «The Zephyr Song» from By the Way although the DVD contained the music videos for the songs. Conversely, «Breaking the Girl» was not included on the DVD, as well as «Parallel Universe,» the latter of which never had a music video released.

To date, Greatest Hits has outsold six of the band’s 13 studio albums, including Mother’s Milk and I’m with You, making it the band’s fifth-highest-selling release.