Hits (Phil Collins album)

"...Hits" redirects here. For other uses, see Hits (disambiguation).

...Hits
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Greatest hits album by Phil Collins
Released	6 October 1998, 2008
Recorded	1979–1998
Genre	Pop rock soft rock
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)Dance into the Light1996 ...Hits (1998) A Hot Night in Paris (1999)A Hot Night in Paris1999
Singles from ...Hits
"True Colors" Released: 26 October 1998

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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 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. 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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(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

• 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.
• Track 6 features Eric Clapton on guitar.
• Track 8 features Daryl Stuermer on guitar.
• Track 9 features Marilyn Martin on vocals.
• Track 16 features Peter Gabriel, Sting, and Helen Terry on backing vocals.
• In the US, Canada and Rest of the world version have a length error on Another Day in Paradise and One More Night, on the back cover was: 6:20 and 5:15, but on the UK was right: 5:22 and 4:48.

Charts

Album

Year	Charts
	UK	US	CAN	AUS	NZ	GER	NL	AUT	BEL (VL)	BEL (WA)	FIN	NOR	SWE	SWI
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	US	US A.C.	GER	NL Top 100	AUT	FRA
1998	"True Colors"	26	112	2	35	73	20	33

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)	Platinum	60,000
Australia (ARIA)	4× Platinum	280,000
Austria (IFPI Austria)	Platinum	50,000
Belgium (BEA)	4× Platinum	200,000
Brazil (ABPD)	Gold	100,000
Canada (Music Canada)	4× Platinum	400,000
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)	Gold	32,143
France (SNEP)	2× Platinum	600,000
Germany (BVMI)	3× Gold	750,000
Italy (FIMI)	Gold	50,000
Japan (RIAJ)	2× Platinum	400,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	Platinum	100,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	3× Platinum	45,000
Norway (IFPI Norway)	Platinum	50,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE)	2× Platinum	200,000
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)	Platinum	50,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	6× Platinum	1,800,000
United States (RIAA)	3× Platinum	3,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Personnel

• Phil Collins – vocals (1-16), keyboards (1,6,8,11,14-16), drums (1-9,13–16), drum machine (11,12,15,16), all instruments (10), kalimba (13), tambourine (4,6), backing vocals (11,13,16)
• David Crosby – backing vocals (1)
• Leland Sklar – bass (1,11,16)
• Dominic Miller – guitars (1,8)
• Babyface – keyboards, drum programming & backing vocals (2)
• Eric Rigler – Uilleann pipes (2)
• Cornelius Mims – bass (2)
• Michael Thompson – guitar (2)
• Sheila E. – percussion (2)
• Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano & Wurlitzer (2)
• Phil Bailey – vocals (3)
• Daryl Stuermer – guitars (3,4,8,11, 12,15,16), lead guitar (13)
• Nathan East – bass (3,8)
• Lesette Wilson – keyboards (3)
• John Giblin – bass (4,15)
• Peter Robinson – piano, glockenspiel & vibraphone (4)
• Freddie Washington – bass (5)
• Michael Landau – guitar (5)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (5)
• Eric Clapton – guitars (6)
• Pino Palladino – bass (6)
• Rob Mounsey – keyboards (7)
• The Phenix Horns
  • Don Myrick – saxophone (8,12), sax solo (11)
  • Louis Satterfield – trombone (8,12)
  • Michael Harris – trumpet (12)
  • Rhamlee Michael Davis – trumpet (8,12)
  • Arranged by Tom Tom 84
• Alex Brown – backing vocals (8)
• Marva King – backing vocals (8)
• Lynn Fiddmont – backing vocals (8)
• Marilyn Martin – vocals (9)
• Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards (9)
• David Frank – keyboards, Mini Moog bass & Oberheim DMX (12)
• Ronnie Caryl – rhythm guitar (13)
• Brad Cole – keyboards (13)
• The Vine Street Horns
  • Andrew Woolfolk – saxophone (13)
  • Arturo Velsaco – trombone (13)
  • Harry Kim – trumpet (8,13)
  • Daniel Fornero – trumpet (13)
  • Arranged by Harry Kim & Phil Collins
• Arnold McCuller – backing vocals (13)
• Amy Keys – backing vocals (13)
• L. Shankar – violins (15)
• Peter Gabriel – backing vocals (16)
• Sting – backing vocals (16)
• Helen Terry – backing vocals (16)
• Arif Mardin – orchestra conductor (7,9)
• Anne Dudley – orchestra conductor (14)

External links

• The Official Phil Collins Website

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