Hits 1
The Hits Album, or Hits 1 as it is often called, is a compilation album released by CBS (Now Sony BMG) and WEA in November 1984. The album was released as a rival to the already successful Now That's What I Call Music series which EMI and Virgin Records had launched in November 1983. The Hits Album reached No. 1 in the UK Top 100 Albums chart for seven weeks and remained in the chart for 36 weeks. This album kept Now 4 from the coveted No. 1 spot over Christmas 1984 – the only Now album in the original series not to reach No. 1 in either the UK Album Chart (to 1989) or the UK Compilations Chart (January 1989 onwards).
It was released on double LP and cassette.
Hits 1 features three songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Freedom", "I Feel for You" and "Careless Whisper".
Track listing
- Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1)
- Freedom : Wham!
- Like To Get To Know You Well : Howard Jones
- All Cried Out : Alison Moyet
- I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down : Paul Young
- Big In Japan : Alphaville
- Self Control : Laura Branigan
- Ghostbusters : Ray Parker, Jr.
- Thriller : Michael Jackson
- Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2)
- I Feel For You : Chaka Khan
- Caribbean Queen : Billy Ocean
- Body : Jacksons
- Just Be Good To Me : The SOS Band
- Let's Hear It For The Boy : Deniece Williams
- Dr Beat : Miami Sound Machine
- Lost In Music : Sister Sledge
- Purple Rain : Prince & the Revolution
- Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3)
- Careless Whisper : George Michael
- Drive : The Cars
- Hard Habit to Break : Chicago
- All Through The Night : Cyndi Lauper
- Sister Of Mercy : Thompson Twins
- Skin Deep : The Stranglers
- Each And Every One : Everything but the Girl
- Smooth Operator : Sade
- Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4)
- Gimme All Your Lovin' : ZZ Top
- Jump : Van Halen
- Footloose : Kenny Loggins
- Apollo 9 : Adam Ant
- Modern Girl : Meat Loaf
- Some Guys Have All the Luck : Rod Stewart
- Teardrops : Shakin' Stevens
- Hole in My Shoe : Neil
See also
References
- Collins Complete UK Hit Albums 1956-2005. Graham Betts. 2005. ISBN 0-00-720532-5.
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| | First wave Original series (1984-1991) | |
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| | Second wave (1993-1994) | |
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| | Third wave (1995-2001) | |
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| | Fourth Wave Music series (2001) |
- Music: The Definitive Hits Collection
- Music: The Definitive Hits Collection 2
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| | Fifth wave (2001-2004) | |
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| | Sixth wave (2005-2006) |
- Red Hot Hits
- Essential Hits
- Summer Hits '06
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- Super Trouper (ABBA, 1980)
- The Visitors (ABBA, 1981)
- The John Lennon Collection (John Lennon, 1982)
- Now That's What I Call Music (Various artists, 1983)
- Hits 1 (Various artists, 1984)
- Now – The Christmas Album (Various artists, 1985)
- Now That's What I Call Music 8 (Various artists, 1986)
- Now That's What I Call Music 10 (Various artists, 1987)
- Private Collection: 1979–1988 (Cliff Richard, 1988)
- ...But Seriously (Phil Collins, 1989)
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