VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE HITS ALBUM: THE DEBUT HITS COLLECTION [3CD]

Format: 3 x CD
Catalogue No.: 19958454942
Barcode: 0199584549422
Release Date: 14 Aug 2026
Genre: Pop

Another SME/UMG collaboration - Every brilliant Pop career has to start somewhere, whether it’s a long road to the top or waking up to find you’re an overnight sensation, leaving the safety of an established group to forge a solo career, or growing up in public, under the glare of lights and cameras on a reality TV show. But any successful run of hits begins with a great performer and a great song, and we are delighted to bring you 63 unforgettable “first steps” on The Debut Hits Collection. Some particularly lucky (and talented) artists top the chart on their first visit, and here you’ll find fantastic songs that achieved that feat for Rod Stewart (‘Maggie May’), Culture Club (‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’), Frankie Goes To Hollywood (‘Relax’), Soft Cell (‘Tainted Love’), Britney Spears (‘...Baby One More Time’), Gabrielle (‘Dreams’), Westlife (‘Swear It Again’), Sandie Shaw (‘(There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me’), and The Righteous Brothers (‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’’). If it’s a familiar face in a different setting that you’re after, then we’ve got the first solo hits for Michael Jackson away from the Jackson 5, Alison Moyet after Yazoo (‘Love Resurrection’), Nick Heyward without Haircut 100 (‘Whistle Down The Wind’), and Robbie Williams post Take That (‘Freedom’). The Debut Hits Collection is a 3CD set covering seven decades of chart action, songs that sound as fresh and exciting today as the first time you heard them.

Disc 1
1 Let's Stay Together
2 Torn
3 Why
4 Here With Me
5 Video Games
6 Take Me to Church
7 Budapest
8 Space Man
9 This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
10 Virginia Plain
11 Denis
12 Young Hearts Run Free
13 I'm Every Woman
14 Love to Love You Baby
15 Daddy Cool
16 Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
17 Baker Street
18 Forever Autumn
19 Maggie May
20 The Time They Are A-changin'
21 Homeward Bound

Disc 2
1 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
2 Relax
3 Take On Me
4 Planet Earth
5 To Cut a Long Story Short
6 The Sound of the Crowd
7 Mad World
8 Tainted Love
9 Where Did Our Love Go
10 Dancing in the Street
11 Uptight (Everything's Alright)
12 Got to Be There
13 One Day I'll Fly Away
14 Keep On Movin'
15 Gloria
16 Manic Monday
17 Love Resurrection
18 Dignity
19 Whistle Down the Wind
20 Holding Back the Years
21 Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)

Disc 3
1 ...Baby One More Time
2 María (Pablo Flores Spanglish Radio Edit)
3 I'm Outta Love
4 Freedom
5 Stitches
6 Human
7 Grace
8 Starry Eyed
9 Swear It Again
10 Hallelujah
11 Killing Me Softly With His Song
12 Breathe Again
13 Dreams
14 How Can I Love You More? (Sasha's Master Edit)
15 It Only Takes a Minute
16 Dreams (Tee's Radio Mix)
17 All I Wanna Do
18 You're Still the One
19 (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
20 I Only Want to Be With You
21 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'