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Motown Chartbusters

British Motown Chartbusters
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1967 Album No TML/STML11055 Stereo issued 1969
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
British Motown Chartbusters Volume 2
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1968 Album No TML/STML11082
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 3
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1969 Album No TML/STML11121
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 4
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1970 Album No STML11162
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 5
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1971 Album No STML11181
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 6
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Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1971 Album No STML11191
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 7
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1972 Album No STML11215
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 8
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1973 Album No STML11246
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 9
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1974 Album No STML11270
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum
Motown Chartbusters Volume 10
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1979 Album No STML12123
Genre R&B, Soul
Label Tamla Motown, Spectrum

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Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. In total, 12 editions were released in the UK between 1967 and 1982. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters; after this the title Motown Chartbusters was used.

Early Motown Records releases in Britain were not on the Motown label, but were issued on the London, Fontana, Oriole and Stateside labels. In 1964, Motown's first number 1 in Britain was "Baby Love" by the Supremes, released on EMI's Stateside label. "Where Did Our Love Go" by the Supremes, and "My Guy" by Mary Wells were amongst other big hits in the same year, also on Stateside. The first release on the Tamla Motown label was "Stop In The Name Of Love" by the Supremes, in March 1965.

By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits. Over the next few years, several more compilations were released, including six in the series 16 Original Big Hits. In 1967, the label issued the first of the Motown Chartbusters series. Although the series comprised mainly hit singles by various Motown artists, the albums also included other recordings that had not been hits in Britain and many significant single hits were excluded from the series. Later albums in the series failed to include any of the top ten singles achieved by Stevie Wonder, or any of his releases. Minor hits were sometimes included in place of bigger hits, most notably for the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson.


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