Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

• JEWEL GREATEST HITS

Acclaimed American singer-songwriter-poet Jewel has enjoyed career longevity rare among her generation of artists. Since achieving international stardom over 18 years ago, the Alaskan beauty has emerged as a charismatic live performer and a respected songwriter with 10 studio albums and four Grammy nominations to date. Rhino brings together Jewel's best for her first ever career-spanning collection that includes a single recorded specifically for this release, as well as reinterpretations of two classic hits with guest vocalists: "Foolish Games" with Kelly Clarkson and "You Were Meant For Me" with the Pistol Annies.<br><br>Signed to Atlantic Records before she was 19, Jewel has sold more than 27 million albums during her career. Her 1995 debut, <i>Pieces of You</i>, dominated the charts with "Who Will Save Your Soul, " "You Were Meant For Me" and "Foolish Games." Her next two albums - 1998's <i>Spirit</i> and 2001's <i>This Way</i> - both went platinum while introducing fans to hits like "Jupiter, " "Hands, " "Standing Still" and "Break Me. " Jewel switched directions in 2003 with <i>0304</i>, an album that fused elements of electronic and folk to create a delightfully quirky mix epitomized by the contrast of dance beats and accordion on the single "Intuition, " which became a huge hit single on both the dance and pop charts.<br><br>"Good Day" is taken from Jewel's fifth top 10 album, 2006's "Goodbye Alice In Wonderland, " an album on which each song was a chapter in an overarching story. In 2009, Jewel recorded <i>Lullaby</i> at her home in Stephenville, Texas. This best selling children's album - her first of two so far - mixed originals with standards like her stunning cover of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow. " She followed up Lullaby with <i>The Merry Goes Round</i>, which was named iTunes' "Children's Album of the Year" in 2011.<br><br>Jewel topped the Billboard country album chart in 2008 with her first country album, <i>Perfectly Clear</i>, which is represented on this collection by the Top 15 single "Stronger Woman. " Her second country album, 2010's <i>Sweet and Wild</i>, included the Grammy nominated-single "Satisfied. "