title: Hits 3 (compilation album)
text: # Hits 3 (compilation album)
  
  The Hits Album 3 or Hits 3 is a compilation album released in the UK by and WEA Records and CBS Records in November 1985. It followed up the extremely successful previous volumes Hits 1 and Hits 2. Although those albums both reached #1, Hits 3 peaked at #2 (held off by Now 6), despite a strong track-listing including a rare appearance of a Madonna track on a compilation album and a further 20 top ten hits.
  
  Hits 3 was a 28 track double-LP and cassette. A 22-track video compilation titled The Hits Video: Take 2 was also released on VHS by WEA Music Video.
  
  Hits 3 features two songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Frankie" and "The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song)".
  
  The Cars song "Drive" previously appeared on Hits 1.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  Record/Tape 1 Side 1 (1)
  
  * A-ha – "Take On Me"
  * King – "The Taste of Your Tears"
  * Red Box – "Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo)"
  * Matt Bianco – "Yeh, Yeh"
  * Sister Sledge – "Frankie"
  * Denise LaSalle – "My Toot Toot"
  * Shakin' Stevens – "Lipstick, Powder and Paint"
  
  Record/Tape 1 Side 2 (2)
  
  * Madonna – "Dress You Up"
  * Prince and The Revolution – "Raspberry Beret"
  * Bruce Springsteen – "Dancing in the Dark"
  * Steve Arrington – "Dancin' in the Key of Life"
  * Brilliant – "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
  * Colonel Abrams – "Trapped"
  * Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin – "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"
  
  Record/Tape 2 Side 1 (3)
  
  * Jennifer Rush – "The Power of Love"
  * Paul Young – "Everytime You Go Away"
  * The Cars – "Drive" $^†$
  * Cyndi Lauper – "Time After Time"
  * Sade – "The Sweetest Taboo"
  * The Dream Academy – "Life in a Northern Town"
  * Bonnie Tyler and Todd Rundgren – "Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It"
  
  Record/Tape 2 Side 2 (4)
  
  * John Parr – "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)"
  * Huey Lewis and the News – "The Power of Love"
  * ZZ Top – "Sleeping Bag"
  * Bonnie Tyler – "Holding Out for a Hero"
  * Thompson Twins – "King for a Day"
  * The Cult – "She Sells Sanctuary"
  * Echo & the Bunnymen – "Bring On the Dancing Horses"
  
  † Previously available on Hits 1.
  
  ## The Hits Video: Take 2
  
  * A-ha – "Take On Me"
  * King – "The Taste of Your Tears"
  * Red Box – "Lean On Me"
  * Matt Bianco – "Yeh Yeh"†
  * Brilliant – "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
  * The Associates – "Take Me To the Girl"††
  * Jennifer Rush – "The Power Of Love"†
  * Paul Young – "Every Time You Go Away"
  * Simply Red – "Holding Back the Years"††
  * The Dream Academy – "Life In A Northern Town"
  * Howard Jones – "Like to Get to Know You Well (new version)"†††
  * Shakin' Stevens – "Lipstick, Powder and Paint"
  * Bonnie Tyler – "Holding Out for a Hero"
  * Dead or Alive – "My Heart Goes Bang"††
  * Screaming Blue Messiahs – "Twin Cadillac Valentine"††
  * The Jesus and Mary Chain – "Just Like Honey"††
  * The Cult – "Rain"††
  * Prefab Sprout – "When Love Breaks Down"††
  * Jesse Rae – "Over the Sea"††
  * Eighth Wonder – "Stay with Me"††
  * Strawberry Switchblade – "Jolene"††
  * Echo & the Bunnymen – "Bring On the Dancing Horses"
  
  † Only available in mono. †† Never appeared on any Hits album. ††† Previously appeared on a Hits album.
  
  