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Best Shots is a Platinum-certified greatest hits album released by American Rock singer Pat Benatar in 1987 in Europe and in an updated version in 1989 in North America. It peaked at #67 on the US Billboard album chart,[2] two years after the album hit #6 in the UK.[3].

It eventually sold close to 2 million copies in the US. This disc is now out of print.

Track listing (European Version)

Side one
  1. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" (Eddie Schwartz) – 2:51 (single version)
  2. "Love Is a Battlefield" (Mike Chapman, Holly Knight) – 4:12 (single version)
  3. "We Belong" (Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro) – 3:42 (single version)
  4. "We Live for Love" (Neil Giraldo) – 3:58 (remixed version)
  5. "Sex as a Weapon" (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) – 4:19
  6. "Invincible" (Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean) (Simon Climie, Knight) – 4:04 (single version)
Side two
  2. "Shadows of the Night" (D. L. Byron) – 3:42 (single version)
  3. "Heartbreaker" (Geoff Gill, Clint Wade) – 3:28
  4. "Fire and Ice" (Kelly, Scott St. Clair Sheets, Pat Benatar) – 3:20
  5. "Treat Me Right" (Doug Lubahn, Benatar) – 3:28
  6. "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" (Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 3:47 (single version)
  7. "You Better Run" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) – 3:04

Original album releases

Track listing (U.S. Version)

  1. "Love Is a Battlefield" – 5:24
  2. "Promises in the Dark" (Giraldo, Benatar) – 4:48
  3. "One Love" (Giraldo, Mryon Grombacher) – 5:12
  4. "All Fired Up" (Kerryn Tolhurst, Grombacher, Benatar) – 4:27
  5. "We Live for Love" – 3:55
  6. "Hell Is for Children" (Giraldo, Benatar, Roger Capps) – 4:48
  7. "Shadows of the Night" – 4:20
  8. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" – 2:51
  9. "We Belong" – 3:40
  10. "Invincible" – 4:28
  11. "Fire and Ice" – 3:20
  12. "Heartbreaker" – 3:26
  13. Medley: "Suffer the Little Children / Hell Is for Children" (Live 1988) (Giraldo, Benatar) – 6:45
  14. "Painted Desert" (Giraldo, Grombacher) – 5:24
  15. "Outlaw Blues" (Giraldo, Grombacher) – 4:19 (1989 re-recording)

Tracks 1-12 were on the LP and cassette release

Tracks 13-15 were CD only bonus tracks

Original album releases

Charts

Year Chart Position
1987 UK Albums Chart[3] 6
1988 New Zealand Albums Chart[4] 5
1989 Billboard 200 (USA)[2] 67

Certifications

Country Organization Year Sales
United Kingdom BPI 1987 Platinum (+ 300,000)[5]
USA RIAA 2001 Platinum (+ 1,000,000)[6]

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Pat Benatar - Best Shots review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Best Shots Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Artist Chart History – Pat Benatar". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  4. ^ "Pat Benatar – Best Shots (album)". Charts.org.nz. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  5. ^ "BPI Certified Awards Searchable Database". BPI. Retrieved July 25, 2014. search under artist for 'Pat Benatar'
  6. ^ "RIAA Searchable database: search for "Benatar"". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
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