Best Shots

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Best Shots
Pat Benatar best shots.jpg
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 26, 1987
Length43:55
Label Chrysalis
Producer
Pat Benatar chronology
Seven the Hard Way
(1985)
Best Shots
(1987)
Wide Awake in Dreamland
(1988)
US edition cover
Best Shots (album).jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Record Guide C [2]
New Musical Express 7/10 [3]

Best Shots is a Platinum-certified greatest hits album released by the American rock singer Pat Benatar in 1987 in Europe and in an updated version in 1989 in North America. It peaked at No. 67 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, [4] two years after the album peaked at No. 6 in the UK. [5]

Contents

Track listings

European version

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Hit Me with Your Best Shot" (single version) Eddie Schwartz Crimes of Passion (1980)2:51
2."Love Is a Battlefield" (single version) Mike Chapman, Holly Knight Live from Earth (1983)4:12
3."We Belong" (single version) Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro Tropico (1984)3:42
4."We Live for Love" (remixed version) Neil Giraldo In the Heat of the Night (1979)3:58
5."Sex as a Weapon" Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg Seven the Hard Way (1985)4:19
6."Invincible" (Theme from The Legend of Billie Jean ) (single version) Simon Climie, KnightSeven the Hard Way4:04
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
7."Shadows of the Night" (single version)D. L. Byron Get Nervous (1982)3:42
8."Heartbreaker"Geoff Gill, Clint WadeIn the Heat of the Night3:28
9."Fire and Ice"Kelly, Scott St. Clair Sheets, Pat Benatar Precious Time (1981)3:20
10."Treat Me Right" Doug Lubahn Crimes of Passion3:28
11."If You Think You Know How to Love Me" (single version)Chapman, Nicky Chinn In the Heat of the Night3:47
12."You Better Run" Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere Crimes of Passion3:04

U.S. version

No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Love Is a Battlefield" Live from Earth5:24
2."Promises in the Dark"Giraldo, BenatarPrecious Time4:48
3."One Love"Giraldo, Myron Grombacher Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988)5:12
4."All Fired Up" Kerryn Tolhurst, Grombacher, BenatarWide Awake in Dreamland4:27
5."We Live for Love" In the Heat of the Night3:55
6."Hell Is for Children"Giraldo, Benatar, Roger CappsCrimes of Passion4:48
7."Shadows of the Night" Get Nervous4:20
8."Hit Me with Your Best Shot" Crimes of Passion2:51
9."We Belong" Tropico3:40
10."Invincible" Seven the Hard Way4:28
11."Fire and Ice" Precious Time3:20
12."Heartbreaker" In the Heat of the Night3:26
13."Medley: Suffer the Little Children / Hell Is for Children" (live 1988, CD edition bonus track)Giraldo, Benatarpreviously unreleased6:45
14."Painted Desert" (CD edition bonus track)Giraldo, GrombacherTropico5:24
15."Outlaw Blues" (1989 re-recording, CD edition bonus track)Giraldo, GrombacherTropico4:19
Total length:67:07

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) [11] Platinum15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [12] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [13] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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