Hits (Phil Collins album)

Hits, released in 1998, was the first greatest hits collection of Phil Collins studio recordings. The collection included fourteen Top 40 hits, including seven American #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 studio tracks originally recorded for motion pictures as well as his popular duet with Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover".

The collection was a #1 album in the United Kingdom and reached #18 in the United States.

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 and 2005's The Platinum Collection 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.

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"Another Day in Paradise" (Phil Collins) – 6:20
"True Colors" (Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly) – 4:33
"Easy Lover" (Collins, Philip Bailey, Nathan East) – 5:03
"You Can't Hurry Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:53
"Two Hearts" (Collins, Lamont Dozier) – 3:25
"I Wish it Would Rain Down" (Collins) – 5:28
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (Collins) – 3:27
"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" (Collins, Daryl Stuermer) – 4:52
"Separate Lives" (Stephen Bishop) – 4:06
"Both Sides of the Story" (Collins) – 6:39
"One More Night" (Collins) – 5:13
"Sussudio" (Collins) – 4:23
"Dance into the Light" (Collins) – 4:24
"A Groovy Kind of Love" (Toni Wine, Carole Bayer Sager (The Mindbenders)) – 3:31
"In the Air Tonight" (Collins) – 5:32
"Take Me Home" (Collins) – 5:51

[edit] Track notes

Track 1 features David Crosby on backing vocals
Track 2 features Babyface on backing vocals, keyboard and drum programming
Track 3 features Phil Bailey on vocals
Track 6 features Eric Clapton on guitar
Track 16 features Peter Gabriel, Sting, and Helen Terry on backing vocals

v • d • e Phil Collins

Studio albums	Face Value • Hello I Must Be Going! • No Jacket Required • …But Seriously • Both Sides • Dance into the Light • Testify

Soundtracks	Against All Odds • White Nights • Buster • Tarzan • Brother Bear • Tarzan (Broadway)

Live Albums	Serious Hits... Live! • A Hot Night in Paris

Compilations	12"ers • Hits • Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New • The Platinum Collection

Bands	Genesis • Brand X • Flaming Youth • The Phil Collins Big Band

Collaborators	Hugh Padgham • Daryl Stuermer • Chester Thompson • others

Other	Discography • Awards