The Singles Collection [Box Set]

Britney Spears

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The Singles Collection [Box Set] Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

A companion to the tight, 17-track The Singles, this deluxe box set gathers up the 29 singles Britney Spears released between 1999 and 2009 -- including the new Max Martin-written single "3," the enticement for hardcore fans to buy The Singles -- presenting them as two-track CD-singles with one B-side per disc, adding a DVD containing almost all of the accompanying music videos. Naturally, this contains far more songs than the single-disc set, including lots of tracks from the start of the new millennium, an area that the 17-cut compilation downplays. Unlike that disc, this box isn't meant for casual listening -- it's an effort to listen to or rip all 29 discs -- but it's a collectors' item, one to be looked at as much as listened to. Those collectors may be irked that the singles contain just one B-side, instead of the legions of B-sides that appeared all over the world for each of these singles, but most of those flipsides were remixes anyway. What mattered were the A-sides, and they're presented here quite attractively in a nice collectors-oriented package. [Jive released a box set version of the collection.]

Track Listing - Disc 1

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:32 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 03:41 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 7

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:26 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears feat: Hampton String Quartet 03:00 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 8

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:25 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 03:34 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 11

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:20 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 03:19 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 14

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:47 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 03:27 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 17

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:52 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 08:43 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 18

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:29 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 02:55 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 20

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears 03:24 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 07:57 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 29

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
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3
Britney Spears 03:33 SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears 07:08 SpotifyAmazon

Track Listing - Disc 30

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
2 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
3 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
4 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
5 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
6 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
7 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
8 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
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10 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
11 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
12 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
13 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
14 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
15 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
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17 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
18 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
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20 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
21 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
22 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
23 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
24 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
25 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
26 Britney Spears SpotifyAmazon
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