Greatest Hits (Paula Abdul album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Paula Abdul
Released	September 26, 2000
Recorded	1988–1995
Label	Virgin
Paula Abdul chronology
Head over Heels (1995) Greatest Hits (2000) Greatest Hits: Straight Up! (2007)

Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album by American singer Paula Abdul. Released on September 26, 2000 by Virgin Records.

The album contains all of Abdul’s singles from her three studio albums with the exception of "Will You Marry Me?" and "Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up". It does, however, include "Crazy Love" which was previously only available on the Japanese version of Head over Heels , "Bend Time Back 'Round" which was included on the Beverly Hills, 90210 soundtrack, and the previously unreleased "Megamix Medley". By January 2006, the album had sold 138,000 copies in the United States. ^[1]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Straight Up" (from Forever Your Girl , 1988)	Elliot Wolff	Wolff	3:52
2.	"Cold Hearted" (from Forever Your Girl)	Wolff	Wolff	3:37
3.	"Forever Your Girl" (from Forever Your Girl)	Oliver Leiber	Leiber	4:13
4.	"The Way That You Love Me" (from Forever Your Girl)	Leiber	Leiber	4:01
5.	"Knocked Out" (from Forever Your Girl)	Kenneth Edmonds Antonio Reid Daryl Simmons	L.A. and Babyface	3:32
6.	"Opposites Attract" (with The Wild Pair) (from Forever Your Girl)	Leiber	Leiber	3:50
7.	"Bend Time Back 'Round" (from Beverly Hills 90210: The Soundtrack , 1992)	Wolff	Wolff	3:57
8.	"Rush Rush" (from Spellbound , 1991)	Peter Lord	Lord V. Jeffrey Smith	4:21
9.	"The Promise of a New Day" (from Spellbound)	Paula Abdul Lord Sandra St. Victor Smith	Lord Smith	4:16
10.	"Blowing Kisses in the Wind" (from Spellbound)	Lord	Lord Smith	4:18
11.	"Vibeology" (from Spellbound)	Lord Victor Smith	Lord Smith	3:20
12.	"My Love Is for Real" (R&B Remix featuring Ofra Haza) (from Head over Heels , 1995)	Abdul Rhett Lawrence	Lawrence	4:03
13.	"Crazy Cool" (from Head over Heels)	Lord Victor Smith	Lord Smith	4:02
14.	"If I Were Your Girl" (from Head over Heels)	Crystal Bernard Lawrence	Lawrence	3:55
15.	"Megamix Medley"		Sergio Silva	9:24
16.	"Crazy Love" (from Head over Heels) (Japanese edition)	Leiber	Leiber	4:30

References

1. "Ask Billboard: Idol Thoughts". Billboard. January 31, 2006. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
2. Greatest Hits at AllMusic
3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 32. ISBN   978-1-84609-856-7.
4. Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide . New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p.  2. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone paula abdul album guide.

External links

• Official Greatest Hits album site from Virgin Records