There are greatest-hits collections, various-artists compilations, reissues and live recordings new and old.

Why bother coming up with songs that audiences may not like when you can recycle greatest-hits collections from stars with proven commercial records?

(It seems a bit unfair to count live albums and greatest-hits collections in that total, but never mind.)

Richie made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.

This results in less a character study or an appreciation than a life's greatest-hits collection.

She also released her second greatest-hits collection, titled GHV2, to coincide with the home video release of the tour.

All are on "Endless Summer" (Mercury), her latest greatest-hits collection.

He showed me a folder stuffed with this correspondence, a sort of greatest-hits collection.

There has also been an unsanctioned greatest-hits collection (The Very Best of The Smiths, 2001).

If so, you're sure to recognize the title of mystic poet William Blake's greatest-hits collection.