Hits (Phil Collins album)

"...Hits" redirects here. For other uses, see Hits (disambiguation).
...Hits
Greatest hits album by Phil Collins
Released 6 October 1998, 2008
Recorded 1979–1998
Genre
Length 1:14:01
Label Face Value Records
Virgin (UK and Ireland)
Atlantic (US and Canada)
WEA (Rest of the world)
Producer Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham, Babyface, Lamont Dozier, Arif Mardin, Anne Dudley
Phil Collins chronology
Dance into the Light
(1996)
...Hits
(1998)
A Hot Night in Paris
(1999)
Singles from ...Hits
  1. "True Colors"
    Released: 26 October 1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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 only greatest hits collection of Phil Collins studio recordings. 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.[2][3] It has sold 3,429,000 in the US as of July 2012.[3]

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.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Another Day in Paradise" (from ...But Seriously)Phil Collins 5:22
2. "True Colors" (Previously unreleased)Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly 4:34
3. "Easy Lover" (from the Philip Bailey LP Chinese Wall)Phil Collins, Philip Bailey, Nathan East 5:02
4. "You Can't Hurry Love" (from Hello, I Must Be Going!)Holland-Dozier-Holland 2:52
5. "Two Hearts" (from Buster)Phil Collins, Lamont Dozier 3:24
6. "I Wish It Would Rain Down" (from ...But Seriously)Phil Collins 5:28
7. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (from Against All Odds)Phil Collins 3:25
8. "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" (from ...But Seriously)Phil Collins, Daryl Stuermer 4:51
9. "Separate Lives" (from White Nights)Stephen Bishop 4:06
10. "Both Sides of the Story" (from Both Sides)Phil Collins 6:37
11. "One More Night" (from No Jacket Required)Phil Collins 4:46
12. "Sussudio" (from No Jacket Required)Phil Collins 4:21
13. "Dance into the Light" (from Dance into the Light)Phil Collins 4:22
14. "A Groovy Kind of Love" (from Buster)Toni Wine, Carole Bayer Sager 3:29
15. "In the Air Tonight" (from Face Value)Phil Collins 5:30
16. "Take Me Home" (No Jacket Required)Phil Collins 5:52

Track notes

Charts

Album

Year Charts
UK
[4]
US
[5]
CAN
[6][5]
AUS
[7][8]
NZ
[9]
GER
[10]
NL
[11]
AUT
[12]
BEL (VL)
[13]
BEL (WA)
[14]
FIN
[15]
NOR
[16]
SWE
[17]
SWI
[18]
1998 1 6 1 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 1 2
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.

Singles

Year Title Charts
UK
[4]
US
[19]
US A.C.
[19]
GER
[20]
NL Top 100
[11]
AUT
[12]
FRA
[21]
1998 "True Colors" 26 112 2 35 73 20 33

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)[22] Platinum 60,000x
Australia (ARIA)[23] 4× Platinum 280,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[24] Platinum 50,000x
Belgium (BEA)[25] 4× Platinum 200,000*
Brazil (ABPD)[26] Gold 100,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[27] 4× Platinum 400,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[28] Gold 32,143[28]
France (SNEP)[29] 2× Platinum 600,000*
Germany (BVMI)[30] 3× Gold 750,000^
Italy (FIMI)[31] Gold 50,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[32] 2× Platinum 400,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[33] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[34] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[35] Platinum 50,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[36] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[37] Platinum 50,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[38] 6× Platinum 1,800,000^
United States (RIAA)[39] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Personnel

References

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  34. THE FIELD id (chart number) MUST BE PROVIDED for NEW ZEALAND CERTIFICATION.
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External links

Preceded by
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours by Manic Street Preachers
UK number one album
17 October 1998 – 23 October 1998
Succeeded by
Quench by The Beautiful South
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