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Madness / Hit Parade 1979-2024

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Madness / Hit Parade 1979 - 2024

Madness are to release a new singles compilation, Hit Parade, in November. It’s the band’s 13th singles compilation and their first since 2021’s Our House: The Very Best Of. By contrast, Madness have also released 13 studio albums.

Hit Parade features 45 chronologically sequenced singles, running from 1979’s ‘The Prince’ to ‘Round We Go’ from 2023’s Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie, which gave Madness their first non-compilation No 1 album. 

Four songs make their debut on physical formats – ‘Sugar And Spice (Radio Edit)’, ‘How Can I Tell You (Radio Edit)’, ‘Bullingdon Boys’ and ‘Round We Go (Single Version)’. 

An additional seven songs are previously unavailable on vinyl: ‘Drip Fed Fred (The Conspiracy Mix)’, ‘Sorry (Radio Edit)’, ‘NW5 (Radio Edit)’, ‘Dust Devil (Radio Edit)’, ‘Forever Young (Melt Music Radio Edit)’, ‘Mr Apples (Toerag Mix)’ and ‘My Girl 2 (Radio Edit)’. There are no major Madness singles not to feature in the tracklisting.

Hit Parade is available as a 2CD set, plus a range of vinyl versions, including a 4LP boxset and a Madness Shop exclusive 4LP which adds an exclusive seven-inch featuring two further songs, which Madness have said should have been singles: ‘Bed And Breakfast Man’ from One Step Beyond and ‘Madness’ from The Rise And Fall. 

Madness shop exclusive Hit Parade 4LP box with 7″ single (click to enlarge)

The two 2LP editions in the box are available separately. These volumes charting 1979-1986 (on red vinyl) and 1992-2024 (on blue vinyl), respectively. Just in case that’s too much Madness, a single LP 15-song highlights edition is available, in a multitude of variants (clear, gold, yellow or silver, picture disc) depending on where you choose to shop. Unlike the other formats, the single LP is not chronologically sequenced.

Hit Parade is released by Madness’ new label, West Village, after Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie proved to be their only new studio album for BMG. However, BMG also reissued every previous Madness studio album, on vinyl and 2CD.

The Amazon-exclusive single LP pressed on opaque gold-coloured vinyl (click to enlarge)

The complete list of Madness singles compilations is: Complete Madness (1982, No 1); Utter Madness (1986, No 29); It’s Madness (1990, didn’t chart); It’s Madness Too (1991, didn’t chart); Divine Madness (1992, No 1); Total Madness: The Very Best Of (1997, didn’t chart); The Heavy Heavy Hits (1998, No 19); Total Madness (2009, No 11); Ultimate Madness (2010, No 27); The Very Best Of (2014, didn’t chart); Full House: The Very Best Of (2017, No 23); Our House: The Very Best Of (2021, didn’t chart).

Madness are to go on their regular Christmas arena tour, starting on 4 December. Hit Parade is released on 21 November 2025.

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Madness / Hit Parade 1979 - 2024

Hit Parade Madness /

    • CD 1: 1979 – 1986
      1. The Prince
      2. One Step Beyond
      3. My Girl
      4. Night Boat To Cairo
      5. Baggy Trousers
      6. Embarrassment
      7. The Return Of The Los Palmas 7
      8. Grey Day
      9. Shut Up *
      10. It Must Be Love
      11. Cardiac Arrest
      12. House Of Fun
      13. Driving In My Car
      14. Our House
      15. Tomorrow’s Just Another Day
      16. Wings Of A Dove
      17. The Sun And The Rain
      18. Michael Caine
      19. One Better Day
      20. Yesterday’s Men *
      21. Uncle Sam *
      22. Sweetest Girl *
      23. (Waiting For) The Ghost Train
      *denotes single edit/mix
    • CD 2: 1992 -2024
      1. The Harder They Come *
      2. Lovestruck
      3. Johnny the Horse
      4. Drip Fed Fred *
      5. Shame and Scandal
      6. Girl Why Don’t You
      7. Sorry *
      8. NW5 *
      9. Dust Devil
      10. Sugar and Spice
      11. Forever Young *
      12. My Girl 2
      13. Never Knew Your Name
      14. How Can I Tell You
      15. Misery
      16. La Luna
      17. Mr.Apples *
      18. Can’t Touch Us Now
      19. Bullingdon Boys
      20. C’est La Vie
      21. Baby Burglar
      22. Round We Go
      *denotes single edit/mix

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