The Hit Factory: Pete Waterman's Greatest Hits is a compilation album featuring music produced by Pete Waterman

Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an English record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team he wrote and produced many hit singles...

. It was released by Universal Music in 2000 and reached #3 in the UK compilation Top 20 chart, achieving a Gold BPI

British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...

 award.

Unlike previous releases called The Hit Factory, this album concentrated on Waterman's productions outside his most successful Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They had great success during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s...

 era and also included a couple of big hits that were exclusively licenced to his PWL Records label in which he had little production involvement.

The album features thirteen UK #1 hits and two further US #1's.
Disc one

1. "I Should Be So Lucky
   I Should Be So Lucky
   "I Should Be So Lucky" is a pop-dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie .The song was released as the album's second single in December 1987...
   
   " - Kylie Minogue
   Kylie Minogue
   Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
   
   
2. "Never Gonna Give You Up
   Never Gonna Give You Up
   A group of London dance producers, called The Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" on that day, and in honor of that event....
   
   " - Rick Astley
   Rick Astley
   Richard Paul "Rick" Astley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and radio personality. He is known for his 1987 song, "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was a #1 hit single in 25 countries...
   
   
3. "Too Many Broken Hearts
   Too Many Broken Hearts
   "Too Many Broken Hearts" is a popular song by Australian singer Jason Donovan.Written and produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman it was Donovan's first solo number one single for two weeks in March 1989, though he had made number one with his duet with Kylie Minogue "Especially for You" in January...
   
   " - Jason Donovan
   Jason Donovan
   Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989...
   
   
4. "Venus
   Venus
   Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
   
   " - Bananarama
   Bananarama
   Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular...
   
   
5. "Respectable" - Mel & Kim
6. "The Harder I Try" - Brother Beyond
   Brother Beyond
   Brother Beyond were a British boy band / pop group who had mainstream success in the late 1980s.-Biography:The group's first four singles, "I Should Have Lied", "How Many Times", "Chain-Gang Smile" , and an early version of "Can You Keep a Secret?" , were all written by band members Eg White...
   
   
7. "Say I'm Your Number One" - Princess
8. "Wouldn't It Be Good" - Nik Kershaw
   Nik Kershaw
   Nik Kershaw is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists...
   
   
9. "This Time I know It's For Real" - Donna Summer
   Donna Summer
   LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
   
   
10. "I Just Don't Have The Heart" - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard
    Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
    
    
11. "I Want You Back" - Bananarama
12. "Pass the Dutchie" - Musical Youth
    Musical Youth
    Musical Youth are a British reggae band. The group originally formed in 1979 at Duddeston Manor School in Birmingham, UK. They are best remembered for their successful 1982 Grammy-nominated single, "Pass the Dutchie". The group featured two sets of brothers, Kelvin and Michael Grant, plus Junior...
    
    
13. "Grease Megamix" - John Travolta
    John Travolta
    John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease...
    
     & Olivia Newton John
14. "Baker Street" - Undercover
15. "It's a Fine Day" - Opus III
16. "No Limit" - 2 Unlimited
    2 Unlimited
    2 Unlimited is a Dutch Eurodance/Hi-NRG act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Dutch duo, rapper Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth. During five years of enormous worldwide popularity, the act scored 16 chart...
    
    
17. "Pray" - Tina Cousins
18. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" - Samantha Fox
19. "Blame It on the Boogie" - Big Fun
20. "Thank ABBA for the Music
    Thank ABBA for the Music
    "Thank ABBA for the Music" is a medley of songs originally released by pop group ABBA, performed by Tina Cousins, Billie, Steps, Cleopatra and B*Witched. It peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 4 in April 1999...
    
    " - Steps, Tina Cousins
    Tina Cousins
    Tina Cousins is an English singer-songwriter and former fashion model. She has had five singles in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others. She has also achieved popularity in Australia. She started her career as a model...
    
    , Cleopatra, B*witched, Billie
    Billie Piper
    Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then switched to acting. She started in acting and dancing and was talent spotted at the Sylvia Young stage school by Smash Hits magazine who wanted a "face" for their magazine...
    
    
21. "Roadblock" - Stock Aitken Waterman
    Stock Aitken Waterman
    Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They had great success during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s...
    
    

Disc two

1. "Tragedy" - Steps
2. "Better the Devil You Know" - Kylie Minogue
3. "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" - Dead or Alive
   Dead or Alive (band)
   Dead or Alive were a British New Wave band from Wirral, England, United Kingdom, Europe. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with their number one single on the UK Singles Chart, "You Spin Me Round ". They were the first group to have a number one single under the production team Stock Aitken Waterman...
   
   
4. "Love in the First Degree" - Bananarama
5. "Together Forever" - Rick Astley
6. "Showin' Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)" - Mel & Kim
7. "Whatever I do (Wherever I Go)" - Hazell Dean
   Hazell Dean
   Hazell Dean is a British dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading Hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top ten hits "Searchin' ", "Whatever I Do " and "Who's Leaving Who"...
   
   
8. "I Want You Back (PWL Remix '88)" - Jackson Five
9. "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" - Sonia
10. "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" - Nik Kershaw
11. "If You Were with Me Now" - Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington
    Keith Washington
    Keith Washington is an American R&B vocalist from Detroit, Michigan who scored a hit single in the United States in 1991 with "Kissing You," which was also used as background music for a General Hospital on ABC...
    
    
12. "Everyday (I Love You More)" - Jason Donovan
13. "Chiquitita" - Stephen Gately
    Stephen Gately
    Stephen Patrick David Gately was an Irish pop singer–songwriter, actor, dancer, musician and author, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone. All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third being their most successful...
    
    
14. "Sealed with a Kiss" - Jason Donovan
15. "Seasons in the Sun" - Westlife
    Westlife
    Westlife are an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998. They are to disband in 2012. The group's line-up was Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden . The group are the only act in British and Irish history to have their first seven singles peak at number one...
    
    
16. "Especially for You" - Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan

• List of songs that were written or produced by SAW (in chronological order, including US and UK chart positions)
• The Hit Factory : The Best of Stock Aitken Waterman.