GUNS N' ROSES Top U.K. Album Chart
April 19, 2004GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" compilation rose to No. 1 on the U.K. charts in its fifth chart week, replacing ANASTACIA's self-titled third Epic album at the top, according to Billboard. The Axl Rose-fronted band's only previous U.K. best-seller was "Use Your Illusion II", which spent a solitary week at the top in September 1991. This feat is especially remarkable if you consider that "Greatest Hits" is a collection of previously released songs from a band whose last studio CD, "The Spaghetti Incident?", came out more than a decade ago.
As previously reported, singer Axl Rose and fellow original members Slash and Duff McKagan argued in a lawsuit that Geffen Records was putting out the album without their input. Geffen officials countered that they wouldn't have released the album if Rose had delivered the long-promised album "Chinese Democracy", which has been in the works for seven years.
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