Cyrax

What is the reason for the reappearance/climb of Greatest Hits 1970-2002?

Any particular reason for the climb of (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

I don't think most of them are that remembered by the masses, just stuff like Changes, Life On Mars? or Rebel Rebel...

Like A Virgin peaked at #3. From Madonna's canon, Express Yourself might qualify here as well, peaked at #5.

So now The Hits/The B-Sides is back to the top 40 after dropping hard but The Hits 1 & The Hits 2 are gone? Is it really down to just record store stock?

Is The Hits 1 charting separately from The Hits/The B-Sides now? How is it possible, I thought it was long out of print and digital sellers only offered the 3 "disc" edition? Not to mention that The Hits 2 has some of the biggest hits (Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, Raspberry Beret, Kiss, Cream)...

Poor Around The World In A Day missing out from charting in the upper regions, that one will always be punished for not being "Purple Rain Part II":

Is The Hits/The B-Sides available digitally only? Not sure if it's still in print as Ultimate might have replaced it. Wonder if Warner will release another Prince compilation with licensing some post-1993 tracks like The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Gold, Betcha By Golly, Wow!, Musicology, Call My Name, Black Sweat, Future Baby Mama...

On Sticky & Sweet Tour almost nothing sounded like album version, then on MDNA Tour we had Papa Don't Preach, Express Yourself, Vogue, Human Nature & Like A Prayer that sound like album/The Immaculate Collection versions and on Rebel Heart Tour nothing really strayed off its familiar arrangement except Dress You Up and the acoustic songs. Music starts out as a torch song but then it's literally the album version playing, such a disappointment... :(

Two of her very best album tracks, love them both but I'm giving a slight edge to 1994 with that smooth melody and amazing vocals.

That's little to do with it as in the 1990s she jumped on the R&B/Adult Contemporary bandwagon and she scored several hits. Then the electronica transition was also convenient for her but then people stopped loving her with American Life when she was no longer doing relatable pop music. She rectified that with COADF and HC was pretty successful considering the circumstances but to me after she left Warner she's been mostly repeating herself (Going back to William Orbit? Another single featuring Nicki Minaj?) and she stopped working with just a handful people and it became A&R'ing songs from other songwriters which is so not what she used to be for 25 years... Then again she is pushing 60 so nothing she does is likely to get much attention, only a select few fans would be pleased if she "went indie", like how she went back to William Orbit and how she stopped reinventing her hits and is only doing album versions on tour. I guess that's how business works now, can be compared to never-ending franchise films, safe and predictable.

Devil Wouldn't Recognize You is a highlight in the later part of her career, a perfectly written and produced song that was immortalized by the stunning live rendition. Devil Pray has always been just ideas thrown together that does not stick, some parts are good, mostly the lyrics but others are ruined by the simple Avicii-like melody and especially the iffy vocals, like during "The ground beneath..." bit. I also fail to see the point of those weird auto-tuned vocals added in the album version, she seems to have really obsessed to change *something* after the songs leaked. The song was interesting for 15 minutes when she put the first 6 songs for sale in December 2014...

Wonder why Under Pressure is sequenced wrong on Best of Bowie and 3-disc version of Nothing Has Changed, while it's correctly put on The Singles Collection & 2-disc version of Nothing Has Changed as it came out a year later than Scary Monsters...

+10 Bitch I'm Madonna +9 Autotune Baby +8 Shoo-Bee-Doo +7 Hey You +6 Girl Gone Wild +5 S.E.X. +4 B-Day Song +3 Did You Do It? +2 Spanish Lesson +1 Candy Shop Can't believe none of the last two tracks of True Blue are in...

What about the 2CD version of Nothing Has Changed, is it not widely available? I believe its tracklist is very similar to Best of Bowie.