Released 5 December 1988 Label BMG UK & Ireland | Release date 5 December 1988 Genre Pop music | |
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Similar Hits 8, The Hits Album 10, Hits 7, Hits 6, Hits 4 | ||
The Hits Album is a compilation album released by BMG, CBS and WEA in December 1988 and is the ninth volume of the long-running Hits compilation series. It charted on December 17. Unusually, this Hits album was released without the chronological '9' anywhere on the album's artwork or advertising and this could be considered a re-launch of the four-year-old series. The compilation is, however, listed as The Hits Album 9 in The Complete Book of the British Charts and other chart statistic publications due to the catalogue number 'CDHITS9'.
Contents
The absence of a volume issue number and the radically different relaunched cover artwork affected sales and the album stalled at #5 in the UK Top 100 Album chart. On January 14, 1989, compilation albums were excluded from the main chart and Hits 9 transferred to the new Compilation Top 20 for the rest of its run, peaking at #4.
It is also known as The Hits Album 9 to avoid confusion with two other albums simply titled The Hits Album (the 1st and 14th editions of the series).
Hits 9 features two songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Orinoco Flow" and "One Moment in Time".
Track listing
- Bros: "Cat Among the Pigeons"
- A-ha: "You Are the One" (Remix)
- Kim Wilde: "Never Trust a Stranger"
- Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine: "1-2-3"
- Debbie Gibson: "Foolish Beat"
- The Pasadenas: "Enchanted Lady"
- Prince: "I Wish U Heaven"
- Enya: "Orinoco Flow"
- Chris de Burgh: "Missing You"
- Fairground Attraction: "Find My Love"
- Deacon Blue: "Real Gone Kid"
- Everything but the Girl: "I Don't Want to Talk About It"
- Tanita Tikaram: "Twist in My Sobriety"
- Robbie Robertson: "Somewhere Down the Crazy River"
- Yazz: "Stand Up for Your Love Rights"
- Matt Bianco: "Wap-Bam-Boogie"
- Royal House: "Can You Party"
- The Funky Worm: "The Spell! (Get Down With The Genie)"
- Kraze: "The Party"
- Samantha Fox: "Love House"
- Karyn White: "The Way You Love Me"
- Rick Astley: "She Wants to Dance with Me"
- Whitney Houston: "One Moment in Time"
- Bill Withers: "Lovely Day"
- Alexander O'Neal: "Fake '88"
- The Bangles: "In Your Room"
- Angry Anderson: "Suddenly"
- Londonbeat: "9 A.M. (The Comfort Zone)"
- The Proclaimers: "Sunshine on Leith"
- Chris Rea: "Driving Home for Christmas"
Songs
1Cat Among the PigeonsBros4:05
2You Are the OneA-ha3:47
3Never Trust a StrangerKim Wilde4:03