 Unusually, this "Hits" album was released without the chronological '9' anywhere on the album's artwork or advertising and this could be considered a re-launch of the four-year-old series.The compilation is, however, listed as "The Hits Album 9" in "The Complete Book of the British Charts" and other chart statistic publications due to the catalogue number 'CDHITS9'.The absence of a volume issue number and the radically different relaunched cover artwork affected sales and the album stalled at #5 in the UK Top 100 Album chart.