Motown Chartbusters Volume 3

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After its success in the UK, Motown went on to release variants of the compilation format in other counties such as the United States and Australia. Because of Motown's policy of re-issuing tracks on single on a regular basis, there are some anomalies in the inclusion of tracks. Later albums in the series failed to include any of the top ten singles achieved by Stevie Wonder, or any of his releases. There were also various releases on the same type of platform, such as Motown Chartbusters, 150 Hits of Gold and boxed sets. Over the next few years, several more compilations were released, including six in the series 16 Original Big Hits.

Minor hits were sometimes included in place of bigger hits, most notably for the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson. 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. Another difference was the number of tracks per album, the UK version consisted of 16 to 18 tracks, whereas the US version only had 12 tracks.

The first release on the Tamla Motown label was " Stop In The Name Of Love" by the Supremes, in March 1965.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.The first nine albums were Top 15 UK Albums Chart entries, whereas the later albums from 10 to 12 did not chart. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This consisted of only five albums which had completely different track listings to the UK releases. Mary Wells' hit 'My Guy' features on Volume 7, released in 1972, after it had been a substantive reissue hit, despite being first released in 1964 and similarly 'Baby Love' is included on Volume 9, as it had been re-issued in 1974, ten years after it first charted in the UK for The Supremes.