Priority's MEGA HITS DANCE CLASSICS [1989-1994] (remastered March 2025)

Priority Records led the CD compilation game in the late 1980s and early 1990s, beating every other label to the market with their compilations of new wave (Rock Of The 80s), old school rap (Rapmasters), and disco music (Mega Hits Dance Classics). The first seven volumes of Mega Hits Dance Classics were released in 1989, and each disc has a dozen tracks.

The second phase of the series hit shelves in 1991 with volumes 8-10, with a reduced track count of nine songs per disc. Another visibly noticeable difference was the cover art: for the first seven volumes, all the tracks were listed on the front cover; for the second installment of three volumes, only four song titles and the teaser "And More!" appeared on the cover.

A third and final flight of three volumes of Mega Hits Dance Classics appeared in 1994, nearly five years after the series had begun, bringing the complete series count up to thirteen volumes and 138 songs from 1973 through 1988. The songs are not presented chronologically, with three tracks repeated among the discs.

There are fifty-six Number One R&B, forty-three Number One Pop, and thirty-nine Number One Hot Disco/Dance songs spread throughout the collection, so the appeal is mostly for popular disco music enthusiasts rather than the club-goers who prefer the longer, extended versions of these songs as well as a more exotic selection of tunes.

The series was simultaneously released as Mega Hits Disco with exactly the same track listing and cover art, only modified with the title change. The sound is hit and miss throughout - some songs sound fine while others have audible clipping, but it's all par for the course for these pioneering Priority collections. Other than the statement "The best available source masters were utilized on this compact disc" there is no mastering information provided.

In 1996, Priority issued yet another Mega Hits series, made up of songs from the first go round. Each of the four discs in the series had nine tracks and a budget price. The covers in the series featured pictures of live models instead of illustrations, as seen below:

Then, in 1997, another label (Interhit Records) utilized the Mega Hits branding in a series of discs that featured not disco and dance classics but Europop-styled cover versions of popular ballads of the time. The discs are titled Mega Hits Dance Party. There are three volumes in that series.