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Duran Duran will bring their latest - and, appropriately, greatest - compilation to vinyl for the first time this summer.

1998's Greatest - a tidy summary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers' most commercially successful period in the '80s and '90s - will be pressed as a double album on white vinyl - featuring a newly cut master created at Abbey Road Studios - with sleek packaging including an embossed front cover (recalling the companion DVD release of the band's biggest videos) and full-color inner sleeves. The collection will also be reissued on CD in a similarly embossed digipak. It's the latest catalogue activity from the group, a year after making their '80s albums available anew on CD and vinyl (with remastering originally released in 2009 and 2010) and adding a slew of digital EPs that offered deluxe edition material, including B-sides, remixes and demos, in a new way for streaming or download. They also reissued their latest album, 2023's Danse Macabre, with extra material.

Greatest served as a crucial update to the band's bestselling 1989 collection Decade, offering every song from that album along with hits and fan favorites the group recorded in the years since that release. Every one of the band's '80s Top 10 hits in the U.S. and the U.K. is accounted for in non-chronological order ("Girls on Film," "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Is There Something I Should Know?" "The Reflex," "A View to a Kill," "Notorious," "Ordinary World" and more), along with four favorites from the '90s: the hits "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone," the 1990 fan favorite "Serious," and "Electric Barbarella," off Duran's then-newest album Medazzaland (1997). Where appropriate, all were presented in an original single mix or edit.

Perhaps someday, Greatest may get a sequel updating fans on Duran's prowess in the decades since. (The band owns all their albums from Medazzaland forward, distributing all through BMG.) Until then, the original is making its way to a new format for your listening pleasure. It'll be available June 20 in the U.K., arriving in America on October 24. Pre-order links are below; as an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Greatest (Parlophone, 2025)dd

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1. Is There Something I Should Know?
2. The Reflex (Single Version)
3. A View to a Kill
4. Ordinary World (Single Version)
5. Save a Prayer (U.S. Single Version)
6. Rio (U.S. Edit)
7. Hungry Like the Wolf (Single Version)
8. Girls on Film
9. Planet Earth
10. Union of the Snake
11. New Moon on Monday
12. The Wild Boys
13. Notorious (45 Mix)
14. I Don't Want Your Love (Shep Pettibone 7" Mix)
15. All She Wants Is (45 Mix)
16. Electric Barbarella (Edit)
17. Serious (Edit)
18. Skin Trade (Radio Cut)
19. Come Undone (Edit)

Track 1 from EMI U.K. single 5371/U.S. pressings of Duran Duran - Capitol ST-12158, 1983
Original version of Track 2 and Tracks 10-11 from Seven and the Ragged Tiger - EMI EMC 1654541 (U.K), 1983
Track 3 from A View to a Kill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Parlophone BOND 1 (U.K.), 1985
Original versions of Tracks 4 and 19 from Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) - Parlophone CDDDB 34 (U.K.), 1993
Original versions of Tracks 5-7 from Rio - EMI EMC 3411 (U.K.), 1982
Tracks 8-9 from Duran Duran - EMI EMC 3372 (U.K.), 1981
Track 12 from Arena - Parlophone DD 2 (U.K.), 1984
Original versions of Tracks 13 and 18 from Notorious - EMI DDN 331 (U.K.), 1986
Original versions of Tracks 14-15 from Big Thing - EMI DDB 33 (U.K.), 1988
Original version of Track 16 from Medazzaland - Capitol CDP 72438 33876 2 5 (U.S.), 1997
Original version of Track 17 from Liberty - Parlophone PCSD 112 (U.K.), 1990