Prince
The Hits 1: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (color variant)
The Hits 2: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Walmart (color variant)
Legacy Recordings is bringing Prince's 1993 greatest hits collections back to vinyl. Though not a complete overview of Prince's chart entries, both sets of The Hits offered a comprehensive review of the artist's core discography. For completists, more than a dozen single edits and mixes were included therein, along with four brand new tracks: a live version of the Prince-penned "Nothing Compares 2 U" (a No. 1 hit for Sinead O'Connor in 1991), the acoustic-driven vault track "Pink Cashmere" (recorded in 1988 for the shelved Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic album), and rousing experiments in blues ("Peach") and even hip-hop ("Pope"). For their premiere vinyl release from Legacy (The Hits 1 was reissued by Warner in 2020 before Legacy controlled most of the material's distribution), each 150-gram 2LP set will come out on black vinyl instead of the by-now typical purple wax that most Legacy reissues have been put upon. But there are color options for U.S. retailers: each volume will be available on "creamy white" vinyl, with Target being the place to get that variant for The Hits 1 and Walmart for The Hits 2.