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TRACK PROFILE · 2015

The Greatest Show on Earth

By Nightwish

From Decades: An Archive of Song 1996–2015

Symphonic metal

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Released
2015
Disc / track
1 / 1
Label
Nuclear Blast
Duration
23:59
Artist
Nightwish
Decades: An Archive of Song 1996–2015 album cover
Album artwork. (Credit: Nightwish / Nuclear Blast)

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About this track

“The Greatest Show on Earth” appears on Nightwish’s Decades: An Archive of Song 1996–2015, first released in 2018. This recording is listed with a 2015 release. It is track 1 on disc 1 in the listing below.

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Decades: An Archive of Song 1996–2015

Main track listing: Decades (2018), an official release cataloged by MusicBrainz. Additional recordings from other official editions are listed separately.

Disc 1

  1. 01The Greatest Show on Earth
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  2. 02Élan
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  3. 03My Walden
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  4. 04Storytime
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  5. 05I Want My Tears Back
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  6. 06Amaranth
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  7. 07The Poet and the Pendulum
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  8. 08Nemo
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  9. 09Wish I Had an Angel
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  10. 10Ghost Love Score
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  11. 11Slaying the Dreamer
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  12. 12End of All Hope
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  13. 1310th Man Down
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  14. 14The Kingslayer
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  15. 15Dead Boy’s Poem
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  16. 16Gethsemane
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  17. 17Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean
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  18. 18Sacrament of Wilderness
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  19. 19Sleeping Sun
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  20. 20Elvenpath
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  21. 21The Carpenter
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  22. 22Nightwish (demo)
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Album and track source · MusicBrainz release group · Genre context

Artwork (Credit: Nightwish / Nuclear Blast)

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