Britney Spears: The Singles Collection

Britney Spears | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jive
• ASIN: B002R68U7A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,593 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 3

2. ...Baby One More Time (2009 Remaster)

3. (You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!) (2009 Remaster)

4. Born To Make You Happy (2009 Remaster)

5. Oops!...I Did It Again (2009 Remaster)

6. Stronger (2009 Remaster)

7. I'm A Slave 4 U (2009 Remaster)

8. Boys (The Co-Ed Remix) (2009 Remaster)

9. Me Against The Music (2009 Remaster)

10. Toxic (2009 Remaster)

11. Everytime (2009 Remaster)

12. Gimme More (2009 Remaster)

13. Piece of Me (2009 Remaster)

14. Womanizer (2009 Remaster)

15. Circus (2009 Remaster)

16. If You Seek Amy (2009 Remaster)

17. Radar (2009 Remaster)

Editorial Reviews

This Ultimate fan piece celebrates Britney's long and unparalleled career, bridging the past and present with an eye on even greater future success. Britney Spears: The Single Collection is the perfect way to say "Thank you" to Britney's millions of fans around the globe and her die-hard core who have been with her every step of the way.

The standard edition includes a select collection of Britney's singles from the last 10 years all re-mastered plus the new song "3".

Customer Reviews

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56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great music; largely unnecessary collection, November 10, 2009

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Andrew Budgell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Britney Spears: The Singles Collection (Audio CD)

In 2004, when Britney Spears released her first greatest hits collection, "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative," many scoffed. Why, after only four studio albums, would Britney release a greatest hits record? However, I defended her. Love her or loathe her, few artists have churned out hit after hit quite like Britney, and evidently a solid album's worth of greatest hits.

It's now five years later and Britney is releasing her second hits package, "The Singles Collection." This time around I am less than enthusiastic. Don't great me wrong, her music is still great. But in the five years since the first collection, Spears has released two studio albums: "Blackout" (the album I consider to be her greatest work) and "Circus," its decent follow-up. However, do only two additional albums warrant another hits collection? Perhaps, but what we are given here is a below par effort.

The lead single to promote the album, "3" is another infectious pop track from Britney, one that debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, that's pretty much where my enthusiasm for this release ends; "3" is the only new track. That being said, my biggest gripe with this release is that her entire catalogue of singles isn't even represented here. Forgotten singles include "Sometimes," "Lucky," "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart," "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," "My Prerogative," and "Break the Ice." If all of Britney's singles were included this would have been a 2-disc set. A 2-disc set would have provided the perfect opportunity to include unreleased songs such as "Love Is (A State of Grace)", thus making this set worthwhile to owners of the previous hits album.

In the end this is a collection of songs that actually includes only one more track than the previous hits collection. While these songs have been digitally remastered, I highly doubt that would benefit some of the newer songs. I recommend this release to fans that didn't get around to purchasing Britney's first greatest hits. Like I said, the music is great. But for the rest there is little incentive to buy this. To me this seems like a decision to gouge Britney's fans during the holiday season.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music videos with a CD are always a bonus!, December 21, 2009

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Amazonian Hunter (California, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Singles Collection (Special Edition) (CD/DVD) (Audio CD)

In case you are wondering if the DVD's will play in the American region, THEY WILL!! I wasn't sure if the DVD was region free or not so I took a chance and thankfully it is and the DVD plays just fine in American DVD players. For an import this is a great deal, most imports are incredibly expensive, this one isn't and is well worth it.

I'm not a big Britney fan, in fact this is the first of anything of hers I've ever bought. I wanted the new 3 song but I hate paying for mp3's, their low audio quality isn't worth paying anything if you ask me. So this album is great for me because it has some of her best songs, including the newest one, and best of all this imported version comes with some of her best music videos as well. I love it when bands include their music videos with their CD albums, who could complain about that?

I don't know why some people complained that she already has another greatest hits album, if you already have one then you could simply not buy this one. You do realize you don't have to buy every single f-ing CD she puts out, right? Oh well, maybe I'm not a "true fan" unless I complain, who knows.

This is a great album at a great price. I only wish Lucky was included, but its no big deal, I think I will survive, lol.

::Other thoughts:: Would it be possible for some of her videos to be put on Blu-ray, or were they not shot in HD? I'd love to see Toxic in high definition, that diamond suit she wears in that video would sure sell a lot of Blu-ray players!

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Collection? Yes. Definitive? NO!, November 10, 2009

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iPod Fan 3 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Britney Spears: The Singles Collection (Audio CD)

So I've been a big Britney Spears fan since her debut "...Baby One More Time", so when I heard they were releasing "The Singles Collection" I was pretty excited. I mean I thought it would pretty much be a CD of the last ten years of my life. And the CD is good, but it's far from "The last ten years of my life".

What bothers me about the collection is the lack of older hits. No "Sometimes," "Lucky," or "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." What's up with that? I mean that was when I liked her most. And why did they include "Boys"? I hardly even remember that one, I didn't even know that it was released as a remix until "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative". Was it really a bigger hit than "Overprotected"?

I was first also thrown off by the inclusion of "Born to Make You Happy" on the US edition, since it wasn't a US single, but now it's one of my favorite Britney songs so I'm glad they included it.

On the positive, the booklet basically makes it worth the purchase. It features interesting facts and pictures from the music videos of each single on this CD. (Although I'm pretty sure the Box Set (Britney Spears: The Singles Collection (Deluxe)) will have this too, with all of the singles).

Either way, it's an OK collection, but hardly definitive. This is more for the casual fan, while the CD Singles box is for hardcore fans.