The GH question was bound to be somewhat ambiguous but I count at least 30 :thinking: (plus 3 more edge cases Cliff Richard, The Smiths 'Hatful Of Hollow' and Bing Crosby which may or may not fit the description of 'greatest hits'). A couple of these aren't immediately obvious from the title I guess!

 

01 NE 01 The Killers ~ Rebel Diamonds

07 11 149 The Weeknd ~ The Highlights

11 09 596 Eminem ~ Curtain Call: The Hits

14 14 318 Elton John ~ Diamonds

17 24 1128 Abba ~ Gold: Greatest Hits

24 17 265 Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop

25 22 195 The Beatles ~ 1967-1970

26 25 34 Post Malone ~ The Diamond Collection

31 30 71 Eminem ~ Curtain Call 2

32 35 1080 Queen ~ Greatest Hits

33 29 206 The Beatles ~ 1962-1966

38 36 536 Oasis ~ Time Flies: 1994-2009

42 40 132 Michael Jackson ~ The Essential Michael Jackson

49 44 333 George Michael ~ Twenty Five

50 41 03 Tina Turner ~ Queen of Rock 'N' Roll

52 50 131 50 Cent ~ Best of 50 Cent

59 60 77 The Smiths ~ The Sound of The Smiths

60 75 1112 Bob Marley and The Wailers ~ Legend

62 58 324 Maroon 5 ~ Singles

63 59 240 Green Day ~ Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band

67 57 109 Little Mix ~ Between Us

68 62 369 David Bowie ~ Legacy

74 78 48 The Cure ~ Greatest Hits

78 69 382 Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Greatest Hits

81 72 219 Elvis Presley ~ Elv1s: 30 Number 1 Hits

84 74 58 Foo Fighters ~ The Essential Foo Fighters

85 77 130 Whitney Houston ~ I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston

92 87 96 Nirvana ~ Nirvana

95 83 79 XXXTentacion ~ Look At Me: The Album

99 RE 51 Nicki Minaj ~ Queen Radio, Vol. 1

It was the first 27 of these I counted. I have zero interest in that XXXTentacion thing, so I had no idea that was a GH. Nirvana I just carelessly overlooked, and I didn't realise the Nicki Minaj album was a GH. I did look up Cliff Richard but Wikipedia lists it as a studio album so I didn't count it. However, in the interests of accuracy, I will revise the answer to that question to 30 and recalculate the points, it's all done by spreadsheet so won't take long. Thanks for pointing this out!

In light of Bré pointing out the three GH collections I missed, I've recalculated the results for that question...

 

Q4. How many greatest hits collections will be in the top 100?

 

So the revised answer to this is 30, which means we have a different winner for that question :kink: but will this affect the overall results? We shall find out shortly :P

 

Dobbo - 30 (0 out) - 10 points

LewisGT - 29 (1 out) - 7 points

Riser - 31 (1 out) - 7 points

rio309 - 27 (3 out) - 4 points

Bjork - 33 (3 out) - 4 points

jimwatts - 27 (3 out) - 4 points

JulianT - 27 (3 out) - 4 points

Maestro - 24 (6 out) - 0 points

paulgilb - 20 (10 out) - 0 points

PeteFromLeeds - 19 (11 out) - 0 points

Roba - 19 (11 out) - 0 points

Jord - 13 (17 out) - 0 points

chrissmith276 - 12 (18 out) - 0 points

conorw - 48 (18 out) - 0 points

LiamSime - 8 (22 out) - 0 points

 

And now for the scores. Sorry that the delivery of these results has been a bit erratic but it's been a busy weekend so I've had to fit them in when I could.

 

It turns out that the revision to the answer to the above question doesn't change the order of the top 3, although a couple of the lower down positions did get swapped around.

 

The final scores are as follows...

 

1. jimwatts - 72 points

2. JulianT - 69 points

3. Bjork - 66 points

4. Riser - 55 points

5. Maestro - 52 points

6. rio309 - 49 points

7. LiamSime - 45 points

8. Dobbo - 38 points

9. chrissmith276 - 35 points

10. paulgilb - 31 points

11. conorw - 28 points

12. Jord - 27 points

13. LewisGT - 24 points

14. PeteFromLeeds - 22 points

15. Roba - 18 points

 

Well done to jimwatts, your powers of prediction are very impressive indeed :D

 

That was slightly harder work than I originally anticipated (as these things almost always turn out to be) but I hope you guys enjoyed it.

 

And ~1^∞, I calculated your scores on the side and had you entered, you would actually have finished joint bottom with 18 points :kink:

 

Maestro, if you do decide to run a version of this in the new year I will definitely be taking part, although I'm pretty sure I'll be terrible at it!

 

And that brings the current quiz season to an end! All that remains is for Pete to announce the final leaderboard, something which I'm very much looking forward to :D

Edited December 17, 20231 yr by Mangø

Thanks very much Mangø and well done Jim!

Thanks for running this Mango! Pretty happy with fifth and congrats to JimWatts.

 

Time allowing, I will aim to do at least one trial week of this at some point in January, so if you’re interested keep an eye out for that :)

Thanks Mango and well done Jim and the top 3. Big gap to what would have been me in 4th but for the recalculation!

Oops last :lol: thanks for running Mango and congrats to Jim!

Congrats Jim - and Julian since you weren't far behind! Shocked to find myself as high as 4th, my couple of bad guesses didn't harm my score as much as I thought. Thanks Mango for hosting, turned out to be a fun quiz :D

The Smiths is a compilation, it's not a studio album for sure:

Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 12 November 1984

 

 

Nice to end with my first quiz win of the season! :cheer: Well done Julian and Bjork for making the top 3 too (I realise the greatest hits one may be a little ambiguous but it's probably fairest we each get 4 points from it).

 

Thanks Mango for hosting!

The Smiths is a compilation, it's not a studio album for sure:

Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 12 November 1984

It's a compilation yes, but it's not a "greatest hits" in the traditional sense, as it includes songs from BBC Radio 1 sessions as well as B-sides, so I'm sticking with not counting it.

 

But note for Maestro: probably don't include this as a question when you run your version in January!

Edited December 18, 20231 yr by Mangø

Hi all! Just letting you know I'll be counting down the Final Leaderboard in The Lounge across the evening ^_^