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Sales Icon 2,300,000 copies

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"The Hits / The B-Sides" ist die erste Greatest Hits Compilation von Prince. Sie erschien am 13. September 1993 als 3-CD Set bei dem Label Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park Records und enthält insgesamt 56 Songs, darunter die bisher unveröffentlichten Songs "Pink Cashmere", "Peach", "Pope", "4 The Tears In Your Eyes", "Power Fantastic", und eine Live-Version des Songs "Nothing compares 2 U. Die Songs "Pink Cashmere" und "Peach" wurden als Singles ausgekoppelt.
Die ersten beiden CDs des Dreier-Sets enthalten Radio-Versionen und Edits der erfolgreichsten Singles aus den Jahren 1978 bis 1993, während auf der dritten CD B-Seiten von Prince-Singles zu finden sind. Singles des 1989 veröffentlichten Albums "Batman" wurden auf den ersten beiden CDs jedoch nicht einbezogen, da Prince damals die Veröffentlichungsrechte an den Songs, die im Film berücksichtigt wurden, an Warner Bros. Entertainment abtreten musste.
Parallel zu "The Hits / The B-Sides" erschienen die ersten beiden CDs einzeln als "The Hits 1" und "The Hits 2". Die erste CD des Dreier-Sets umfasst 18 Songs und hat eine Laufzeit von 75 Minuten und 49 Sekunden, die zweite CD umfasst ebenfalls 18 Songs und hat eine Laufzeit von 74 Minuten und 41 Sekunden. Die dritte CD besteht aus 20 Songs und hat eine Laufzeit von 76 Minuten und 39 Sekunden. Das Albumcover gestaltete der Fotograf Herb Ritts.
"The Hits / The B-Sides" erreichte in den amerikanischen Billboard Charts Platz vier und erlangte dadurch Platin-Status. "The Hits 1" und "The Hits 2" erreichten Platz 46 bzw. 54 und wurden jeweils ca. 2 Million Mal in den USA verkauft, wodurch sie jeweils ebenfalls Platin-Status errangen. In Deutschland erreichten "The Hits / The B-Sides" Platz 58, "The Hits 1" Platz 20, und "The Hits 2" Platz 19 der deutschen Album-Charts.
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Released along with The Hits 1 and The Hits 2 this 3-disk set came as one of three separate releases (disks one and two sold separately and containing the single releases), with the triple disk set The Hits / The B-Sides combining both plus the B-side releases (disk 3).

Batman is the only previously released Prince album not represented across the two A-side disks because of licensing restrictions (200 Balloons, a rejection from the original soundtrack, did appear on the B-side to number 1 chart single Batdance and reappears on disk 3 for that reason). Warner Brothers, who wanted to recoup the considerable advance they had given Prince in order to produce , also paid Prince to not be involved with this greatest hits release at all. Prince instead charged a considerable fee for the production of the cover photos for The Hits / The B-Sides releases. Prince was opposed to the concept of greatest hits albums, they in his eyes epitomised the end of a musician’s career. Warner Brothers, however, were simply maximising the return on their new $100m contract with the Prince and experience marked the beginning of a long and bitter demise in the relationship of the two parties. The album originally peaked at number 19 in Billboard’s chart, however, climbed to number 7 in the week following Prince’s death in 2016.


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