Hits (Phil Collins album)

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Hits (stylized as ...Hits), released in 1998 and again in 2008, following the success of "In the Air Tonight" on the Cadbury ad campaign, is the first greatest hits album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The collection included fourteen Top 40 hits, including seven American number 1 songs, spanning from the albums Face Value (1981) through Dance into the Light (1996). One new Collins recording, a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors", also appeared on the collection and was a popular song on adult contemporary stations. Hits was also the first Phil Collins album to include four songs originally recorded for motion pictures (all of them U.S. number 1 hits) as well as his popular duet with Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover" (a UK number 1 hit).

In 1998, the album reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and number 18 in the United States. On 4 August 2008, it became the number 1 album on the New Zealand RIANZ album chart. In July 2012, the album re-entered the U.S. charts, reaching number 6 on the Billboard 200 when the album price was deeply discounted very briefly by Amazon.com. It has sold 3,429,000 in the US as of July 2012.

There are other greatest hits compilations of Phil Collins songs. Most recently, a collection of Collins more romantic songs were released on a two-disc compilation titled Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New. A live collection, Serious Hits... Live!, was released in 1990. 1999's Turn It On Again: The Hits, 2005's Platinum Collection and 2014's R-Kive were greatest hits collections by Collins' original group, Genesis. Finally, Collins recorded many of his most popular songs as big band recordings on the album A Hot Night in Paris with The Phil Collins Big Band.

The compilation's cover features stylized versions of the cover art for Collins' first six albums, the collection's primary sources of songs.

Video Hits (Phil Collins album)

Track listing

Maps Hits (Phil Collins album)

Track notes

• Track 1 features David Crosby on backing vocals.
• Track 2 features Babyface on backing vocals, keyboard and drum programming, and Sheila E on percussion.
• Track 3 features Philip Bailey on vocals.
• Tracks 4, 11-13, 15 feature Daryl Stuermer on guitar.
• Track 6 features Eric Clapton on guitar.
• Tracks 8, 13 feature Nathan East on bass.
• Track 9 features Marilyn Martin on vocals.
• Track 16 features Peter Gabriel, Sting, and Helen Terry on backing vocals.
• The original pressing of the album lists "Another Day in Paradise" with an incorrect running time of 6:22 and "One More Night" with a running time of 5:12. This is not the case for the Virgin pressing.

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Personnel

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Charts

Album

Year-end charts

Singles

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Certifications

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References

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External links

• The Official Phil Collins Website

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