Foo Fighters have claimed their fourth Australian No.1 album on the ARIA Album Chart with the debut of their highly anticipated 'GREATEST HITS'.

The release of Foo Fighters 'GREATEST HITS' confirms that the Australian fans can't get enough of this legendary band! This is the fourth album to debut at #1, following on from their most recent release, 'Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace', which held the top spot for a week in October 2007, 'In Your Honour' which lasted five weeks at the summit in 2005 and 'One By One' in October 2002, the first Foo Fighters album to debut at peak position.

In addition to the dozen-plus anthems that have charted the band's rise to Grammy winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status the world over, FOO FIGHTERS' 'GREATEST HITS' features two newly recorded songs available only on this compilation. The new single 'Wheels' and 'Word Forward'-- both recorded especially for this collection at the band's own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig. 'Wheels' is also the subject of the latest soon to be classic Foo Fighters video, appropriately included on the deluxe DVD and reuniting the band with director Sam Brown who lensed the unforgettable clip for 'The Pretender'.

'GREATEST HITS' covers every phase of the 15-year-and-counting run that began with 1995's Foo Fighters, with its classic singles 'This Is A Call' and 'Big Me,' and has since yielded six platinum-plus records and as many Grammys . The double-platinum The Colour & The Shape, originally issued in 1997 and since reissued in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition is recalled here not only by 'Monkeywrench,' 'Everlong' and 'My Hero,' but by the first ever studio recording of 'Everlong (acoustic).' Consecutive Best Rock Album Grammy winners 'There Is Nothing Left To Lose' (1999) and 'One By One' (2002) are represented by two pairs of classics respectively: 'Learn To Fly' and 'Breakout,' and 'All My Life' and 'Times Like These,' while 2005's two- disc electric/acoustic 10th anniversary opus 'In Your Honor' yields the perennial FF final encore 'Best Of You.' The intimate 2006 acoustically augmented theater tour documented on the 'Skin + Bones' album and DVD is commemorated here by that collection's title track.

'GREATEST HITS' is completed by 'The Pretender' and 'Long Road To Ruin,' a double shot from 2007's 'Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace'. It was this album which earned the Foos their third Best Rock Album Grammy and set off the band's biggest ever headlining tour, peaking with a two-night stand at London's Wembley Stadium attended by 165,000 fans. These two consecutives nights set the venue's two-night attendance record and has been immortalized on the 18-song 'Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium' DVD.