The Hits/The B-Sides

Box set by Prince

Released

September 10, 1993

Genre

Length

225:53

Label

Producer

Prince chronology

Love Symbol Album
(1992)

The Hits/The B-Sides
(1993)

Come
(1994)

Singles from The Hits/The B-Sides

"Pink Cashmere"
Released: August 31, 1993
"Peach"
Released: November 18, 1993
"Controversy"
Released: December 11, 1993

The Hits/The B-Sides is a box set by American recording artist Prince. It was released on September 10, 1993, by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album is a comprehensive 3-disc set consisting of many of his hit singles and fan favorites.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
Robert Christgau	B+^[5]
Entertainment Weekly	A^[2]
MusicHound	4.5/5^[6]
NME	6/10^[3]
Q	^[7]
Rolling Stone	^[7]^[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]

Album information

In 1993, Prince wanted to release Goldnigga, the debut album by his band The New Power Generation but Warner Bros. refused and instead decided to finally release the greatest hits collection it had wanted to release two years earlier when Prince instead got Diamonds and Pearls released.

Disc one and two were released separately, under the titles The Hits 1 and The Hits 2 respectively, but the B-Sides disc could only be obtained by purchasing the full set. Most of the songs (A-sides and B-sides) on The Hits/The B-Sides are represented in their edited single form. This was necessary due to time constraints, and the nature of a greatest hits collection; exceptions to this were "Alphabet St.", "7", "Little Red Corvette", "Sexy MF", and "Purple Rain". This compilation marks the first time the single version of "Kiss" was made available on CD. The third disc of B-sides also featured the 7" edits, with the exceptions of "200 Balloons", "17 Days", "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)", "Horny Toad", "Irresistible Bitch", "I Love U in Me", "God", and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" which were all original full-length recordings from the original singles.

Among the previously unreleased material was the rare live version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes", only previously released in a 1985 TV broadcast for the Live Aid concerts. Also included was a live version of "Nothing Compares 2 U", recorded live January 27, 1992, at Paisley Park with The New Power Generation. The other four new tracks were outtakes. The oldest track was "Power Fantastic", a moody ballad once considered for the Dream Factory project of 1986. Another ballad, "Pink Cashmere", was broadcast before some of the Lovesexy World Tour shows, dating it back to 1988 originally for his abandoned Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic project. "Peach" and "Pope" were more recent, and both were played live during some 1993 after shows. "Pope" was actually in the short-lived musical ballet Glam Slam Ulysses, which also spawned several songs later released on Come and The Gold Experience. Live jams of "Peach" often extended into the title track of Chaos and Disorder.

While Prince had very little interest in the project, he insisted that his longtime manager Alan Leeds write the liner notes instead of Rolling Stone journalist Neal Karlen. According to Prince biographer Per Nilsen, the record company paid Prince to not get involved with the making of this compilation.

The Hits/The B-Sides originally debuted and peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1993. The album sold 40,000 equivalent copies (24,000 in pure album sales) in the week following Prince's death,^[10] thus allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number 6.^[11]

Track listing

All songs performed by Prince, except where noted.

Disc 1: The Hits 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"When Doves Cry" (Single edit)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:47
2.	"Pop Life" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Around the World in a Day (1985)	3:41
3.	"Soft and Wet"	Prince Chris Moon	For You (1978)	3:02
4.	"I Feel for You"	Prince	Prince (1979)	3:24
5.	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?"	Prince	Prince	3:48
6.	"When You Were Mine"	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	3:43
7.	"Uptown" (Single edit)	Prince	Dirty Mind	4:09
8.	"Let's Go Crazy" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain	4:39
9.	"1999" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince	1999 (1982)	3:36
10.	"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (Single edit)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:38
11.	"Nothing Compares 2 U (Live)" (featuring Rosie Gaines)	Prince	Previously unreleased (1993)	4:57
12.	"Adore" (Single edit)	Prince	Sign o' the Times	4:39
13.	"Pink Cashmere"	Prince	Previously unreleased	6:13
14.	"Alphabet St."	Prince	Lovesexy (1988)	5:38
15.	"Sign 'o' the Times" (Single edit)	Prince	Sign o' the Times	3:43
16.	"Thieves in the Temple"	Prince	Graffiti Bridge (1990)	3:19
17.	"Diamonds and Pearls" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The New Power Generation)	Prince and The New Power Generation	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:19
18.	"7" (Performed by Prince and The New Power Generation)	Prince and The New Power Generation	Love Symbol Album (1992)	5:09

Disc 2: The Hits 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Controversy" (Single edit)	Prince	Controversy (1981)	3:35
2.	"Dirty Mind" (Single edit)	Prince Dr. Fink	Dirty Mind (1980)	3:49
3.	"I Wanna Be Your Lover" (Single edit)	Prince	Prince (1979)	2:56
4.	"Head"	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	4:43
5.	"Do Me, Baby" (Single edit)	Prince	Controversy (1981)	3:55
6.	"Delirious" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince	1999 (1982)	2:38
7.	"Little Red Corvette" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince	1999 (1982)	4:55
8.	"I Would Die 4 U" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain (1984)	2:56
9.	"Raspberry Beret" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Around the World in a Day (1985)	3:31
10.	"If I Was Your Girlfriend"	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:46
11.	"Kiss" (Single edit; performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Parade (1986)	3:45
12.	"Peach"	Prince	Previously unreleased	3:48
13.	"U Got the Look" (featuring Sheena Easton)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:46
14.	"Sexy M.F." (Performed by Prince and The New Power Generation)	Prince Tony M. Levi Seacer, Jr.	Love Symbol Album (1992)	5:24
15.	"Gett Off" (Performed by Prince and The New Power Generation)	Prince and The New Power Generation	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:29
16.	"Cream" (Performed by Prince and The New Power Generation)	Prince and The New Power Generation	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:12
17.	"Pope" (featuring Mayte Garcia and Bernie Mac)	Prince	Previously unreleased	3:28
18.	"Purple Rain" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	Purple Rain (1984)	8:40

Disc 3: The B-Sides

No.	Title	Writer(s)	A-side	Length
1.	"Hello" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"Pop Life"	3:23
2.	"200 Balloons"	Prince	"Batdance"	5:05
3.	"Escape"	Prince	"Glam Slam"	3:30
4.	"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)"	Prince	"Let's Work"	2:54
5.	"Horny Toad"	Prince	"Delirious"	2:12
6.	"Feel U Up"	Prince	"Partyman"	3:44
7.	"Girl" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"America"	3:47
8.	"I Love U in Me"	Prince	"The Arms of Orion"	4:12
9.	"Erotic City" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"Let's Go Crazy"	3:55
10.	"Shockadelica"	Prince	"If I Was Your Girlfriend"	3:30
11.	"Irresistible Bitch"	Prince	"Let's Pretend We're Married"	4:11
12.	"Scarlet Pussy"	Prince	"I Wish U Heaven"	4:18
13.	"La, La, La, He, He, Hee"	Prince Sheena Easton	"Sign "O" the Times"	3:21
14.	"She's Always in My Hair" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"Raspberry Beret"	3:27
15.	"17 Days" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"When Doves Cry"	3:54
16.	"How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore"	Prince	"1999"	3:50
17.	"Another Lonely Christmas" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"I Would Die 4 U"	4:51
18.	"God" (Performed by Prince and The Revolution)	Prince and The Revolution	"Purple Rain"	4:02
19.	"4 the Tears in Your Eyes (Live)"	Prince	Previously unreleased. Studio version released on the 1985 USA For Africa "We Are The World" charity album	3:23
20.	"Power Fantastic"	Prince	Previously unreleased	4:45

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[12]	5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[13]	40
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[14]	5
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[15]	10
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[16]	58
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[17]	15
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[18]	11
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[19]	19
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[20]	9
UK Albums (OCC)^[21]	4
UK Albums (OCC)^[22] The Hits 1	5
UK Albums (OCC)^[23] The Hits 2	5
US Billboard 200^[24]	19
US Billboard 200^[25] The Hits 1	46
US Billboard 200^[26] The Hits 2	54
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[27]	6
Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[28]	4
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[29]	60
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[30]	14
US Billboard 200^[31]	4

Release history

Country	Date	Label
Germany^[32]	September 10, 1993	Warner
United Kingdom^[33]	September 13, 1993	Warner
United States^[34]	September 13, 1993	Paisley Park Warner Bros.

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Prince

Prince

Discography Albums Singles Videography Unreleased projects Awards and nominations Associates Death

Concert tours	Prince Tour Dirty Mind Tour Controversy Tour 1999 Tour Purple Rain Tour Parade Tour Sign o' the Times Tour Lovesexy Tour Nude Tour Diamonds and Pearls Tour Act I and II Interactive Tour The Ultimate Live Experience Love 4 One Another Charities Tour Jam of the Year Tour New Power Soul Tour Hit n Run Tour A Celebration One Nite Alone... Tour World Tour 2003 Musicology Live 2004ever Per4ming Live 3121 21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour 20Ten Tour Welcome 2 Live Out Loud Tour Hit and Run Tour Piano & A Microphone Tour

Filmography	Purple Rain Under the Cherry Moon Sign o' the Times Graffiti Bridge

Videography	Prince and the Revolution: Live Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection The Hits Collection 3 Chains o' Gold Rave Un2 the Year 2000 Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas

Video games	Prince Interactive

Stage productions	Glam Slam Ulysses Billboards

Associated companies	Paisley Park Records NPG Records

Related articles	The Revolution The New Power Generation 3rdeyegirl The Time Vanity 6 Apollonia 6 The Family Madhouse Mazarati John L. Nelson Mayte Garcia Manuela Testolini NPG Music Club Minneapolis sound Purplish Rain

Book:Prince

Prince albums

Studio albums	For You Prince Dirty Mind Controversy 1999 Purple Rain Around the World in a Day Parade Sign o' the Times Lovesexy Batman Graffiti Bridge Diamonds and Pearls Love Symbol Album Come The Black Album The Gold Experience Chaos and Disorder Emancipation Crystal Ball The Truth The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic The Rainbow Children One Nite Alone... Xpectation N.E.W.S Musicology The Chocolate Invasion The Slaughterhouse 3121 Planet Earth Lotusflow3r MPLSound 20Ten Plectrumelectrum Art Official Age Hit n Run Phase One Hit n Run Phase Two

Live albums	One Nite Alone... Live! One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over! C-Note Indigo Nights

Remix albums	Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic

Compilation albums	The Hits 1 The Hits 2 The Hits/The B-Sides Girl 6 The Very Best of Prince Ultimate Prince

The New Power Generation albums	Goldnigga Exodus Newpower Soul

The NPG Orchestra albums	Kamasutra

Madhouse albums	8 16

Prince singles

1970s	"Soft and Wet" "Just as Long as We're Together" "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

1980s	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" "Still Waiting" "Sexy Dancer" "Bambi" "Uptown" "Dirty Mind" "Do It All Night" "Controversy" "Let's Work" "Do Me, Baby" "Sexuality" "1999" "Little Red Corvette" "D.M.S.R." "Delirious" "Automatic" "Let's Pretend We're Married" "When Doves Cry" "Let's Go Crazy" "Purple Rain" "I Would Die 4 U" "Take Me with U" "Paisley Park" "Raspberry Beret" "Pop Life" "America" "Kiss" "Mountains" "Anotherloverholenyohead" "Girls & Boys" "Sign "O" the Times" "If I Was Your Girlfriend" "U Got the Look" "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" "Alphabet St." "Glam Slam" "I Wish U Heaven" "Batdance" "Partyman" "The Arms of Orion" "Scandalous!"

1990s	"The Future" "Thieves in the Temple" "New Power Generation" "Gett Off" "Cream" "Diamonds and Pearls" "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" "Insatiable" "Thunder" "Sexy MF" "My Name Is Prince" "7" "Damn U" "The Morning Papers" "Pink Cashmere" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Peach" "Pope" (remix) "Come" "Letitgo" "Space" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "P Control" "Dolphin" "Endorphinmachine" "I Hate U" "Gold" "Dinner with Delores" "Betcha by Golly Wow!" "The Holy River" "Somebody's Somebody" "Face Down" "The Truth" "Extraordinary" "The Rest of My Life" "5 Women" "It's About That Walk" "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"

2000s	"U Make My Sun Shine" (with Angie Stone) "When Will We Be Paid?" (with Audio Stepchild) "Supercute" "The Work, pt. 1" "Days of Wild" "Musicology" "Cinnamon Girl" "Controversy (Live in Hawaii)" "S.S.T." "Te Amo Corazón" "Black Sweat" "Fury" "Guitar" "F.U.N.K." "Dance 4 Me"

2010s	"Extraloveable" "Rock and Roll Love Affair" "Screwdriver" "Fixurlifeup" "Breakfast Can Wait" "Pretzelbodylogic" "Fallinlove2nite" "Breakdown" "Clouds" "Baltimore" "Hardrocklover" "This Could B Us" "Free Urself"

Promotional singles	"When You Were Mine" "D.M.S.R." "Another Lonely Christmas" "Erotic City" "Hot Thing" "Trust" "Willing and Able" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Pope" "Love Sign" (with Nona Gaye) "Come" "P. Control" "Dolphin" "Endorphinmachine" "Slave" "Somebody's Somebody" "Face Down" "Extraordinary" "The Rest of My Life" "5 Women" "It's About That Walk" "Baby Knows" "Man'O'War" "She Loves Me 4 Me" "Last December" "One Nite Alone... Live EP" "Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas" "Call My Name" "The Song of the Heart" "Beautiful, Loved & Blessed" (with Tamar Davis) "Chelsea Rodgers" "Future Baby Mama" "The One U Wanna C" "U're Gonna C Me"

Airplay-only songs	"International Lover" "Shhh" "Satisfied" "Better with Time"

Internet downloads	"One Song" "Cybersingle" "Bataclan" "Glass Cutter" "Live from Paisley Park" "Strange Relationship" (Live in Minneapolis) "Guitar" (original "demo" version) "Love" (acoustic version) "Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Remix 7) "Screwdriver" (Remix) "Boyfriend" (Demo) "That Girl Thang" "Live Out Loud" "Ain't Gonna Miss U When U're Gone" "Extraloveable Reloaded" "Menstrual Cycle" "Octopus Heart" "Groovy Potential" "The Sweeter She Is" "Something in the Water" (Paisley Park Rehearsal) "Da Bourgeoisie" "What If" "The X's Face"

Streams	"U're Still the One" "Xylophone" "In a Large Room with No Light" "Purple and Gold" "Cause and Effect" "Hot Summer" "Rich Friends" "Same Page Different Book" "Stare"

EP's	The Scandalous Sex Suite EP New Power Generation Remixes Gett Off Remix EP Cream Remixes' My Name Is Prince Remixes 7 Remixes The Beautiful Experience Letitgo Remixes Space Remixes I Hate U Remixes 1999: The New Master The Greatest Romance Ever Sold Remixes Breakfast Can Wait

Other songs	"I Feel for You" "When You Were Mine" "Head" "Private Joy" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" "17 Days" "The Beautiful Ones" "Computer Blue" "Darling Nikki" "Baby I'm a Star" "4 the Tears in Your Eyes" "Housequake" "Starfish and Coffee" "Adore" "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" "I Can't Make U Love Me" "La, La, La Means I Love U" "One of Us" "Everyday Is a Winding Road" "A Case of U"

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