Would I be missing anything?

01. Letitgo
02. Space
03. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
04. Hate U
05. Gold
06. Dinner With Delores
07. Betcha by Golly Wow
08. The Holy River
09. The Truth
10. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
11. The Work Pt. 1
12. She Loves Me 4 Me
13. Musicology
14. Cinnamon Girl
15. Te Amo Corazon
16. Black Sweat
17. Fury.
18. Guitar

yeah, you would be missing the hits. barely but a few of those qualify as hits, especially the Truth, which is a great song but I don't know if it ever got any play at all, nevertheless broke the top, oh, say 1,000,000.

well there was a few songs on the first two hits albums that were never hits so i like this tracklist...think you need 'the good life' in there as that WAS a top 20 hit in the uk...and ' come on' also charted in the uk..'future baby mama ' has alredy charted in the r&b chart in the us....'last december' was a number 1 hit in japan if you are looking for international hits

so i would have it like this...
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01. Letitgo (top 40, uk )
02. Space (
03. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (no 1, uk ,top 10 ,us )
04. Hate U ( top 20 , uk, us )
05. Gold (top 10, uk )
06. Dinner With Delores (top 40 , uk)
07. Betcha by Golly Wow (top 20, uk )
08. The Holy River (top 20 , uk)
09. The Truth
10. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (top 75 ,uk, us )
11. the good life (top 20, uk )
12. come on (top 75, uk )
13. Musicology
14. Cinnamon Girl (top 50 ,uk)
15. Te Amo Corazon
16. Black Sweat (top 50, uk ,us )
17. Fury.
18. future baby mama

The Good Life shouldn't be included though as this wasn't released as a 'Prince'
or '' song, it was released under the name 'New Power Generation'. If you
start including NPG songs then you'd have to add 'Get Wild' and 'Come On' too.
And I don't think it's appropriate to include NPG tracks on a 'Prince' best of
(even the ones from NPS where he sings lead), otherwise you might as well
start including Sheila E, The Time or Madhouse tracks etc.
[Edited 7/24/07 7:02am]

blackbob said:

Would anyone actually buy the record above??

Its like a whos who of his worst songs ever, Betcha by Golly Wow, Black Sweat,
Fury, The Holy River - truly awful songs.. Hits 1 and 2 didnt have partyman and Batman, so I guess we could omit Betcha by Golly Wow, Black Sweat,
The Holy River and add a couple of decent album tracks.. as those songs were omitted. In fact, just to beef up the album a bit, I think those Batman songs could be incorporated into a Hits 3. And for extra spice, I would end the Batman "collection" with the Scandalous Sex Suite.. Awesome way to end a record..

I would add a few non-album tracks, he didnt have enough "hits" to really have a hits CD, so instead, do what the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" did several years ago and call it "What hits?", just adding their best songs as well as the couple of hits they had in the 80's (just before they became huge)..

If we could do this, I would add some of his stronger songs, She loves me for me, Dolphin, Dear Mr Man as album tracks. I agree that the good life shouldnt be on there, altbough its a great track. But "Come On" is a Prince song, regardless of how it was "badged" and should be on it.. I also thought that 3121 the song eclipses all the other songs on that record, so should be present, at least so listeners know that this album is represented. I also added Chelsea Rodgers as the last song because I wanted it to end with a roaring disco tune as well. The Last December is on there because someone said it was a hit in Japan.

I would also add Guitar to this list. Not sure if its a hit, but it quite well known..

01. Letitgo
02. Space (acoustic version)
03. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - non- album version
04. I Hate U
05. Gold
06. Dophin (Has been played live a few times and a ripper of a tune)
07. Dinner With Delores
08. The Truth
09. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
10. Come on
11. Musicology
12. 3121
13. Dear Mr. Man (Seems to be a well known album tune)
14. Cinnamon Girl (only just akes it because of the video)
15. Future baby mama
16. Guitar
17. She Loves Me 4 Me
18. Last December
19. Batdance
20. Trust
21. Partyman
22. Scandalous Sex Suite
23. Chelsea Rodgers
[Edited 7/24/07 7:25am]

DieLon said:

I wouldn't even release it as "the Hits". I'd call it The best of Prince 1994-2007. Then, you could include songs like "Pussy Control" which was a massive club hit/anthem...
[Edited 7/24/07 7:33am]

skywalker said:

I'd call it 'The Singles 1994-2007' because it's certainly not a 'best of'

I'm surprised everyone has forgotten Prince's biggest hit of the 2000s..."Call My Name"! Prince's biggest his and most memorable tracks of the last 13 years might look like this:

1.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2.Lovesign
3.Letitgo
4.Pussy Control
5.I Hate U
6.Gold
7.Dinner With Delores
8.Betcha By Golly Wow
9.The Holy River
10.Somebody's Somebody
11.The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
12.So Far, So Pleased
13.U Make My Sun Shine
14.Musicology
15.Call My Name
16.Cinnamon Girl
17.Te Amo Corazon
18.Black Sweat
19.Fury (Live)
20.All Along The Watchtower/Best Of U
21.Song Of The Heart
22.Guitar
23.Future Baby Mama

The presence of Gwen Stefani and "The Best Of U" would help sales a bit if anyone cared about that. "Best Of U" would lure in hardcore fans who have everything else, and it was probably heard by more people than anything else he's done in a while.
[Edited 7/24/07 9:17am]