Tracks
Side A
- 11985Dutch Top 40: peak position 2 in week 19 of 1985, 12 weeks in the chartEverybody Wants To Rule The World4:11G major
- 21985Dutch Top 40: peak position 1 in week 8 of 1985, 14 weeks in the chartShout6:34G major
- 32017I Love You But I'm Lost4:21A major
- 41982Mad World3:35F♯ major
Side B
- 11989Dutch Top 40: peak position 3 in week 40 of 1989, 11 weeks in the chartSowing The Seeds Of Love6:19C major
- 21989Dutch Top 40: peak position 14 in week 14 of 1990, 6 weeks in the chartAdvice For The Young At Heart4:51C minor
- 31985Head Over Heels5:02E major
- 41989Dutch Top 40: peak position 12 in week 51 of 1989, 6 weeks in the chartWoman In ChainsTears For Fears, Oleta Adams6:31F minor
Side C
- 11983Change4:14A major
- 22022Stay4:37E major
- 31983Pale Shelter4:34A major
- 41985Mothers Talk5:06D major
Side D
- 11993Dutch Top 40: peak position 16 in week 26 of 1993, 5 weeks in the chartBreak It Down Again4:32G major
- 21985I Believe4:55
- 31995Raoul and the Kings of Spain5:16B major
- 42003Dutch Top 40: peak position 38 in week 16 of 2005, 2 weeks in the chartClosest Thing to Heaven3:37B major
Source of the Dutch Top 40 entries: top40.nl
Sound of Rule The World: The Greatest Hits
Rule The World: The Greatest Hits sounds brighter and more acoustic than the shelves on average, at a tempo around 121 bpm.
Quietest track: I Believe · most energetic: Shout
Across 16 tracks on the shelves. The mark and the small number: the average of the whole collection.
Timeline of the line-up
All four members of Tears For Fears over the years, without tour members. This is a compilation that spans the whole career, not one moment in time. The thin line is this album and the red lines are the entries in the Dutch Top 40. Point at a line for more. A linked name has its own page.
Roland Orzabal
Curt Smith
Ian Stanley
Manny Elias198519901995200020052010201520202025Member of the groupAlbumDutch Top 40Still a member
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Frequently asked questions
When was Rule The World: The Greatest Hits by Tears For Fears released?
Rule The World: The Greatest Hits came out in 2017.
How many tracks are on Rule The World: The Greatest Hits?
Rule The World: The Greatest Hits has 16 tracks, 79 minutes in total, spread over four vinyl sides.
Which tracks from Rule The World: The Greatest Hits made the Dutch Top 40?
Seven tracks from this album reached the Dutch Top 40: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Advice For The Young At Heart, Woman In Chains, Break It Down Again and one other. The highest was Shout, at number 1 in week 8 of 1985.
Which category is Rule The World: The Greatest Hits in?
Rule The World: The Greatest Hits is filed under compilations. On the home page, sorted by category, the album sits on that shelf, among the other albums by Tears For Fears.
Which other albums by Tears For Fears are in the collection?
The collection holds one more album by Tears For Fears: Songs For A Nervous Planet (2024).
Who was in Tears For Fears when Rule The World: The Greatest Hits came out?
In 1982–2022, Tears For Fears consisted of Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith, Ian Stanley and Manny Elias. That is the line-up of the group in those years, not necessarily who is heard on the album. A linked name has a page of its own.
What do the percentages for the sound of Rule The World: The Greatest Hits mean?
They come from an acoustic analysis of the recordings as they are on Spotify: per track a score from 0 to 100 for energy, danceability, mood and acoustic, plus the tempo and the key. They are the outcome of a model, not a measurement of the music itself; 93% acoustic means the model is fairly sure that mostly acoustic instruments are heard. The sound of the album is the average of its tracks, each track counting equally, and the comparison is with the average of all analysed tracks in the collection.
How do you play Rule The World: The Greatest Hits?
With the round Spotify button after each track, or the whole album at once via the play button next to the cover. The music plays in the player at the bottom of the page and keeps going while you browse on. This needs one-time consent for Spotify.
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