A customer browses vinyl records at the HMV Record Shop in Tokyo, Japan, in 2016. Looking at the roster of top-selling records, you could easily think greatest hits albums are doing better than ever.
There are a few near-universal truths in rock 'n' roll, one of them being: Where there is a band with hits, there will be a band with a lot of hits compilations. Decades ago, when hits compilations ...