Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released by Columbia Records on December 4, 2001. Issued after Carey's departure from Columbia, the album spans her tenure with the label and includes most of her singles released between 1990 and 2000. It features her then fifteen US number-one singles, as well as the UK number-one hits "Without You" and "Against All Odds". Following criticism from reviewers and Carey herself of her first compilation album, #1's, which focused on her US number-one singles, Greatest Hits was developed as a double album with a broader selection of her work, including two number-one songs released after #1's. The album peaked at number 52 on the US Billboard 200 and number seven on the UK Albums Chart. It received platinum certifications in several countries, including double-platinum in the US and triple-platinum in the UK and Australia. The album was reissued internationally as The Essential Mariah Carey on January 10, 2011, as part of Legacy Recordings' Essential series, with the same track listing. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greates...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)