Foo Fighters' Greatest Hits, which was released this week, spans the band's 15-year career by focusing on their many hits. Best-of collections are an interesting thing -- they're a great introduction to a band you may not know much about, but ideally they'll also get you interested enough to explore that group's studio albums in order to get a better understanding of all their sonic dimensions.

With that in mind, I've put together a list of the Top 10 Greatest-Hits Collections and included notes on what these compilations do and don't include. With the holidays just around the corner, these albums might make for fun stocking-stuffers for that young rock fan in your life.

Top 10 Greatest-Hits Collections

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Creed haven't released a new studio album since 2001, but last week they returned with their mediocre comeback record, Full Circle. Creatively, it may be a bit of a mixed bag, but how will it do commercially? We got our first hint today when this week's Billboard 200 album chart was announced. Full Circle landed at No. 2 with sales of 110,000 copies, bested only by Michael Jackson's posthumous This Is It.

It's hard enough to reclaim a fan base after years of inactivity, but Creed are also returning to the spotlight at a time when the music industry is radically different than the era when they thrived. No stronger indicator of this was the fact that when Creed's last album, Weathered, debuted on the sales chart, it moved 887,000 units. Now, that was during the height of their popularity, but the sad fact is that such a sales figure would be nearly impossible today because of reduced album sales. Of the band's previous studio albums, none has gone less than sextuple-platinum. No matter how beloved Full Circle becomes, that simply won't happen, so expectations will have to be adjusted accordingly.

In other rock news, the New Moon soundtrack fell from last week's top spot to No. 8, selling 69,000 units, which brings its approximate total to about 337,000 copies in less than a month. The accompanying film will be released November 20, so it'll be interesting to see if the album gets a sales boost around that time.

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Saving Abel are currently on the road, but if you've only seen them during earlier tours, they're giving fans an additional reason to attend these shows -- you'll get to hear them try out new material that will probably end up on their sophomore album.

Speaking with Billboard, the band members mentioned several songs that they're previewing on this tour, including "Hell of a Ride," "Bloody Sunday" and "Tap Out." Drummer Blake Dixon says, "Basically right now we've got the album pretty much finished, and I think if we put it out right now people would love it. But we want to make sure we're completely ecstatic with it."

The record doesn't have a title yet, but from the band's comments, it appears that they want it to continue in the vein of their commercially successful 2008 debut, Saving Abel. They use words like "edgy" and "raunchy" in their description of the new songs, and those adjectives could certainly be used when discussing Saving Abel, which was boosted by the salacious slow-burn single "Addicted."

No exact release date has been set, but the band say they'll be putting out the album in the first half of 2010. But that doesn't mean they're done writing material for the record. "Hopefully [we'll] come up with just a few more tunes that are over the top," Dixon said, "kind of like how 'Addicted' was one of the last songs we recorded for [Saving Abel]. We want to take a little more time and put a little more into it and just come out with the best product we possibly can."

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Glasvegas are working on the follow-up to their self-titled debut, and it sounds like the Scottish quartet will be sticking with the romantic spirit of their first record for this new effort.

"Love gained and love lost," frontman James Allan told NME.com when asked to describe the forthcoming record's themes. "The idea of finding love and losing love. I still think I'm clueless when it comes to songwriting and describing how I'm feeling, what I've seen and what comes to me in the middle of the night. But it is an album of love songs. It is a definite follow on from the debut, which also had love songs on it, but was mainly about having aspirations to love."

As Allan suggested back in July, the group will leave their native Glasgow and head to Los Angeles to do the actual recording of the album. While they're in L.A., they'll be working with renowned producer Rick Rubin on the record's drum sounds. There's no word yet on when this follow-up will be released, but I wonder if Glasvegas will be bumping into the Red Hot Chili Peppers while they're in Southern California -- the Funky Monks have made their last five albums with Rubin, and the expectation is that they'll team up with him again for their new record.

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