Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits
1998 compilation album by Faith No More
Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits retrospective compilation album by American rock band Faith No More. It was released on compact disc and compact cassette by Slash Records and London Records in Britain and Europe on November 24, 1998, and by Slash Records and Reprise Records in North America on December 8, 1998. On January 8, 2021, Slash Records and Rhino Records re-issued the compilation on phonograph record.
Issued following the band's April 1998 breakup, a companion video album was also released on video home system under the title Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos by Slash Records and London Records via Polygram Video in Britain and Europe, and Slash Records and Reprise Records via Warner Reprise Video in North America on February 23, 1999. The album was most commercially successful in Australia, reaching number 4 on the country's charts and being certified Platinum. It also charted in New Zealand and several European countries, but failed to chart on the Billboard 200 in the United States.
The album's content spans most of the band's career (at the time of its initial break-up in 1998), including songs from all of the band's studio albums released through Slash Records (1987–1997). The first disc collects 15 singles from the band's Slash Records career in chronological order.
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