Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Beatles album) over 100,000 in Australia. Both volumes stayed in print in Australia until EMI Australia ceased vinyl production in 1991. The album was released on cassette but never released compact disc. Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Beatles album) Greatest Hits Volume 1 is a greatest hits compilation album by The Beatles which was exclusive to Australia and New Zealand. The album was compiled by EMI Australia to fill in the gap between "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" (much like "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" would in 1966 in between "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"). The compilation and it's follow-up were
Revolver (Beatles album) to be "the best of the bunch, the letter that went unanswered" among a series of reciprocally influential musical statements exchanged between the Beatles and the Beach Boys over 1965–67.<ref name="Medsker/PM"></ref> In a 2007 appraisal of the band's albums, Henry Yates of "Classic Rock" magazine paired it with "Sgt. Pepper's" as the two "essential classics" in the Beatles' canon and described it as "Always the rock fraternity's favourite (and the blueprint for Noel Gallagher's career)". Writing in "Paste", Mark Kemp says that the album "completed [the Beatles'] transformation from the mop tops of three years earlier into bold, groundbreaking experimental