Simply the Best (Tina Turner album)

The album includes Turner's most popular hits since her comeback in the early-mid 1980s. It also includes three new songs that were previously unreleased; "Love Thing" (UK Airplay #13), "I Want You Near Me" (#22 UK), and "Way of the World" (UK Airplay #6 and UK #13) as well as a re-recorded dance version of Turner's classic "Nutbush City Limits", all of which were also issued as singles in 1991 and 1992. The album is Turner's biggest seller in the UK where it is one of the best selling albums of all time for sales in excess of 2.4 million copies.^[3] It was certified 8x platinum in the UK and stayed on the UK charts for over 140 weeks. The album sold 7 million copies worldwide.^[4]

The compilation was released with a different track listing in the U.S. with the songs "Addicted to Love (Live)" and "Be Tender With Me Baby" being replaced by "What You Get Is What You See" and "Look Me in the Heart". In Australia, a limited edition of the album was also released and features a five track bonus disc. It includes a re-recording of "The Best" as a duet with Jimmy Barnes, which was retitled "(Simply) The Best" and was released as a single, as well as a fourth new song called "I'm a Lady", which was released in other regions as the B-side to "Love Thing".

Track listing

Original version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Best" (7" edit)	Chapman, Knight	4:10
2.	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	Britten, Lyle	3:50
3.	"I Can't Stand the Rain"	Bryant, Miller, Peebles	3:44
4.	"I Don't Wanna Lose You"	Hammond, Lyle	4:18
5.	"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90s Version)	Turner	3:44
6.	"Let's Stay Together" (7" edit)	Green, Jackson, Mitchell	3:39
7.	"Private Dancer" (7" edit)	Knopfler	4:01
8.	"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (7" edit)	Britten, Lyle	4:14
9.	"Better Be Good to Me" (7" edit)	Chapman, Chinn, Knight	3:40
10.	"River Deep – Mountain High" (Ike & Tina Turner)	Barry, Greenwich, Spector	3:37
11.	"Steamy Windows"	White	4:02
12.	"Typical Male"	Britten, Lyle	4:14
13.	"It Takes Two" (with Rod Stewart)	Moy, Stevenson	4:13
14.	"Addicted to Love" (Live, London 1986)	Palmer	5:10
15.	"Be Tender with Me Baby"	David, Hammond	4:17
16.	"I Want You Near Me"	Britten, Lyle	3:53
17.	"Way of the World"	Hammond, Lyle	4:19
18.	"Love Thing"	Hammond, Knight	4:28

U.S. version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Best" (7" edit)	Chapman, Knight	4:10
2.	"Better Be Good to Me" (7" edit)	Chapman, Chinn, Knight	3:40
3.	"I Can't Stand the Rain"	Bryant, Miller, Peebles	3:44
4.	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	Britten, Lyle	3:50
5.	"I Don't Wanna Lose You"	Hammond, Lyle	4:18
6.	"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90s Version)	Turner	3:44
7.	"What You Get Is What You See"	Britten, Lyle	4:28
8.	"Let's Stay Together" (7" edit)	Green, Jackson, Mitchell	3:39
9.	"River Deep – Mountain High" (Ike & Tina Turner)	Barry, Greenwich, Spector	3:37
10.	"Steamy Windows"	White	4:02
11.	"Typical Male"	Britten, Lyle	4:14
12.	"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (7" edit)	Britten, Lyle	4:14
13.	"Private Dancer" (7" edit)	Knopfler	4:01
14.	"Look Me in the Heart"	Kelly, Steinberg	3:41
15.	"It Takes Two" (with Rod Stewart)	Moy, Stevenson	4:13
16.	"I Want You Near Me"	Britten, Lyle	3:53
17.	"Way of the World"	Hammond, Lyle	4:19
18.	"Love Thing"	Hammond, Knight	4:28

Australian version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Best" (7" edit)	Chapman, Knight	4:10
2.	"Better Be Good to Me" (7" edit)	Chapman, Chinn, Knight	3:40
3.	"I Can't Stand the Rain"	Bryant, Miller, Peebles	3:44
4.	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	Britten, Lyle	3:50
5.	"I Don't Wanna Lose You"	Hammond, Lyle	4:18
6.	"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90s Version)	Turner	3:44
7.	"What You Get Is What You See"	Britten, Lyle	4:28
8.	"Let's Stay Together" (7" edit)	Green, Jackson, Mitchell	3:39
9.	"Addicted to Love" (Live, London 1986) (Alternate version)	Palmer	5:05
10.	"River Deep – Mountain High" (Ike & Tina Turner)	Barry, Greenwich, Spector	3:37
11.	"Steamy Windows"	White	4:02
12.	"Typical Male"	Britten, Lyle	4:14
13.	"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (7" edit)	Britten, Lyle	4:14
14.	"Private Dancer" (7" edit)	Knopfler	4:01
15.	"Look Me in the Heart"	Kelly, Steinberg	3:41
16.	"It Takes Two" (with Rod Stewart)	Moy, Stevenson	4:13
17.	"I Want You Near Me"	Britten, Lyle	3:53
18.	"Way of the World"	Hammond, Lyle	4:19
19.	"Love Thing"	Hammond, Knight	4:28

Limited edition bonus disc
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(Simply) The Best" (with Jimmy Barnes)	Chapman, Knight	4:11
2.	"I'm a Lady"	Britten, Lyle	3:24
3.	"I Can't Stand the Rain" (Extended 12" remix)	Bryant, Miller, Peebles	5:43
4.	"Be Tender with Me Baby"	David, Hammond	4:17
5.	"Show Some Respect"	Britten, Shifrin	3:17

B-sides

Title	Single(s)
"Nutbush City Limits" ('91)	"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90s Version)
"I'm a Lady"	"Love Thing" and "(Simply) The Best"
"Let's Dance" (Live)	"I Want You Near Me"

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak Position
Dutch Albums Chart	1
New Zealand Albums Chart	1
UK Albums Chart	2
Swiss Albums Chart	3
German Albums Chart	4
Swedish Albums Chart	5
Norwegian Albums Chart	6
Austrian Albums Chart	8
Australian Albums Chart	12
Finnish Albums Chart	19
Belgium Albums Chart	23
Canadian Albums Chart	40
US Billboard R&B Chart	99
US Billboard 200 Chart	113

References

Tina Turner

Studio albums	Tina Turns the Country On! · Acid Queen · Rough · Love Explosion · Private Dancer · Break Every Rule · Foreign Affair · Wildest Dreams · Twenty Four Seven

Live albums	Tina Live in Europe · VH1 Divas Live '99 · Tina Live

Soundtracks	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome · What's Love Got to Do with It

Compilations	Simply the Best · The Collected Recordings – Sixties to Nineties · All the Best · Tina! · The Platinum Collection

Videography	One Last Time Live in Concert · All the Best – The Live Collection · Tina Live

Tours	Private Dancer · Break Every Rule · Foreign Affair · What's Love? · Wildest Dreams · Twenty Four Seven · Tina!: 50th Anniversary

Related articles	Discography · Awards · Ike & Tina Turner · I, Tina · What's Love Got to Do with It (film)

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Tina Turner singles

Acid Queen	"Baby Get It On" (with Ike Turner) · "Whole Lotta Love" · "Acid Queen"

Rough	"Viva La Money" · "Root, Toot Undisputable Rock 'n Roller" · "Sometimes When We Touch" · "Night Time Is the Right Time"

Love Explosion	"Love Explosion" · "Back Stabbers" · "Music Keeps Me Dancin'"

Private Dancer	"Let's Stay Together" · "Help!" · "What's Love Got to Do With It" · "Better Be Good to Me" · "Private Dancer" · "I Can't Stand the Rain" · "Show Some Respect"

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" · "One of the Living"

Break Every Rule	"Typical Male" · "Back Where You Started" · "Two People" · "Girls" · "What You Get Is What You See" · "Break Every Rule" · "Paradise Is Here" · "Afterglow"

Tina Live in Europe	"Nutbush City Limits (Live)" · "Addicted to Love (Live)" · "Tonight (Live)" (with David Bowie) · "A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)" · "634-5789 (Live)" (with Robert Cray)

Foreign Affair	"The Best" · "I Don't Wanna Lose You" · "Steamy Windows" · "Look Me in the Heart" · "Foreign Affair" · "Be Tender with Me Baby"

Simply the Best	"Nutbush City Limits (The 90s Version)" · "Way of the World" · "Love Thing" · "I Want You Near Me" · "(Simply) The Best" (with Jimmy Barnes)

What's Love Got to Do with It	"I Don't Wanna Fight" · "Disco Inferno" · "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" · "Proud Mary (1993 Version)"

Wildest Dreams	"GoldenEye" · "Whatever You Want" · "On Silent Wings" · "Missing You" · "Something Beautiful Remains" · "In Your Wildest Dreams" (with Barry White)

Twenty Four Seven	"When the Heartache Is Over" · "Whatever You Need" · "Don't Leave Me This Way" · "Talk to My Heart"

All the Best	"Open Arms" · "Complicated Disaster"

Guest singles	"Ball of Confusion" (with B.E.F.) · "Tonight" (with David Bowie) · "It's Only Love" (with Bryan Adams) · "Tearing Us Apart" (with Eric Clapton) · "It Takes Two" (with Rod Stewart) · "Cose Della Vita" (with Eros Ramazzotti) · "Teach Me Again" (with Elisa)

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