Chronicle:_The_20_Greatest_Hits

Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits
Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Released	January 1976
Recorded	1968–1972
Genre	Americana; swamp rock;
Length	67:55
Label	Fantasy
Producer	John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival chronology

<i>Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits</i>

Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits

1976 greatest hits album by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chronicle, or fully Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, is a greatest hits album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was released in January 1976 by Fantasy Records.^[1] The edited version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" featured on the album was simultaneously released as a single (see 1976 in music).^[4]

Quick Facts Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Greatest hits album by Creedence Clearwater Revival ...

Chronicle is a singles collection with 13 A-sides and seven B-sides. Unlike the two previously released Creedence Gold compilations, Chronicle includes all of the group's charted hits. Chronicle: Volume Two was released in 1986, and features non-charting "classics" collected from the same albums as the songs on Chronicle.

Certified 12× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America,^[5] it is the best-selling album in the band's catalog. The compilation was ranked number 59 in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time in 2012,^[6] but disappeared from the list altogether when it was published again in 2020. The album has sold at least 6 million copies in the US since 1991 (data from 2013), when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard.^[7] It has remained on the Billboard 200 LP chart for 12 years, during which it reached the 600 week-mark (non-consecutive) in August of 2022. It was re-released on vinyl in 2014 as a Limited Edition.

Charts

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[8]
Blender	^[9]
Robert Christgau	A^[10]
Rolling Stone	^[11]

No.	Title	Album	Length
1.	"Susie Q" (Dale Hawkins)	Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)	4:36
2.	"I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Herb Slotkin)	Creedence Clearwater Revival	4:32
3.	"Proud Mary"	Bayou Country (1969)	3:08
4.	"Bad Moon Rising"	Green River (1969)	2:19
5.	"Lodi"	Green River	3:10
6.	"Green River"	Green River	2:33
7.	"Commotion"	Green River	2:42
8.	"Down on the Corner"	Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)	2:45
9.	"Fortunate Son"	Willy and the Poor Boys	2:20
10.	"Travelin' Band"	Cosmo's Factory (1970)	2:08
11.	"Who'll Stop the Rain"	Cosmo's Factory	2:28
12.	"Up Around the Bend"	Cosmo's Factory	2:42
13.	"Run Through the Jungle"	Cosmo's Factory	3:07
14.	"Lookin' out My Back Door"	Cosmo's Factory	2:33
15.	"Long as I Can See the Light"	Cosmo's Factory	3:31
16.	"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong)	Cosmo's Factory	11:04
17.	"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"	Pendulum (1970)	2:38
18.	"Hey Tonight"	Pendulum	2:43
19.	"Sweet Hitch-Hiker"	Mardi Gras (1972)	2:56
20.	"Someday Never Comes"	Mardi Gras	4:00
Total length:			67:55

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)^[55]	Gold	30,000^{^}
Australia (ARIA)^[56]	6× Platinum	420,000^‡
Belgium (BEA)^[57]	Gold	25,000^*
Canada (Music Canada)^[58]	Gold	50,000^{^}
Germany (BVMI)^[59]	Gold	250,000^{^}
Italy (FIMI)^[60]	Gold	25,000^*
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[61]	Gold	7,500^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[62]	Gold	100,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[5]	12× Platinum	12,000,000^‡
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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