Hits (Phil Collins album)

...Hits
Greatest hits album by Phil Collins
Released	5 October 1998 (UK),[1] 2008
Recorded	1980–1998
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) ...Hits (1998) A Hot Night in Paris (1999)
Singles from ...Hits
"True Colors" Released: 26 October 1998

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

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 a 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.^[3][4] It has sold 3,429,000 in the US as of July 2012.^[4]

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)	Originally released on	Length
1.	"Another Day in Paradise"	Phil Collins	...But Seriously (1989)	5:22
2.	"True Colors"	Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly		4:34
3.	"Easy Lover" (with Philip Bailey)	Phil Collins, Philip Bailey, Nathan East	Chinese Wall (1984)	5:02
4.	"You Can't Hurry Love"	Holland-Dozier-Holland	Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982)	2:52
5.	"Two Hearts"	Phil Collins, Lamont Dozier	Buster: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988)	3:24
6.	"I Wish It Would Rain Down"	Phil Collins	...But Seriously (1989)	5:28
7.	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"	Phil Collins	Against All Odds: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)	3:25
8.	"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"	Phil Collins, Daryl Stuermer	...But Seriously (1989)	4:51
9.	"Separate Lives" (with Marilyn Martin)	Stephen Bishop	White Nights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1985)	4:06
10.	"Both Sides of the Story"	Phil Collins	Both Sides (1993)	6:37
11.	"One More Night"	Phil Collins	No Jacket Required (1985)	4:46
12.	"Sussudio"	Phil Collins	No Jacket Required (1985)	4:21
13.	"Dance into the Light"	Phil Collins	Dance into the Light (1996)	4:22
14.	"A Groovy Kind of Love"	Toni Wine, Carole Bayer Sager	Buster (1988)	3:29
15.	"In the Air Tonight"	Phil Collins	Face Value (1981)	5:30
16.	"Take Me Home"	Phil Collins	No Jacket Required (1985)	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.
• The original pressing of the album lists "Another Day in Paradise" with an incorrect running time of 6:22 and "One More Night" with a running time of 5:12. This is not the case for the Virgin pressing.

Charts

Album

Year	Charts
	UK [5]	US [6]	CAN [7][6]	AUS [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 [5]	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	Certified units/Sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[22]	Platinum	60,000^*
Australia (ARIA)[23]	4× Platinum	280,000^^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[24]	Platinum	50,000^*
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	50,000^^
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

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)

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

• The Official Phil Collins Website