20 Years Ago BEST OF DEF LEPPARD Album/BEST OF THE VIDEOS Released In UK

Friday, 25th October 2024

Best Of Def Leppard

Def Leppard released the Best Of Def Leppard/Best Of The Videos 2CD/DVD set on this day in 2004 in the UK.

The second greatest hits album release from the band which was released in UK, parts of Europe and later in Japan and elsewhere (excluding North America).

It was seen as the replacement for the Vault Greatest Hits album which had been issued 11 years before in October 1995.

It would become their first Top Ten UK album since 'Slang' in 1996 reaching Number 6 and selling over 120,000 copies in one week.

The album and accompanying DVD were initially announced in August 2004 with the title 'Super Vault' for this reason. Following six months of news about the covers album which had a proposed September release date but eventually came out as YEAH! in May 2006.

This was then changed to 'Best Of Def Leppard' for the UK and 'Super Vault' for the US/CAN (with a 26th October release date).

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