The Ultimate Collection (Newsboys album)

The Ultimate Collection is the fourth, major compilation album by Christian pop rock band Newsboys, released on 7 April 2009, and is the first double-disc format greatest hits album for the group.

The Ultimate Collection
Compilation album by Newsboys
Released	7 April 2009
Recorded	1992–2008
Genre	Christian rock, pop rock
Label	Sparrow
Newsboys chronology
Newsboys Live: Houston We Are GO (2008) The Ultimate Collection (2009) In the Hands of God (2009)

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The album is a part of The Ultimate Collection series, each of which spotlights 24 songs from various Christian recording artists.

The Newsboys' installment of The Ultimate Collection contains most of the songs that appeared on their 2007 compilation album, The Greatest Hits (minus "Real Good Thing" and "Reality," which are both absent on the double-disc set). In addition to the 16 songs that appeared on The Greatest Hits are "Woohoo," "Step Up to the Microphone," "Love Liberty Disco," "Beautiful Sound," "Who?," "In Christ Alone," "Devotion," and "Blessed Be Your Name." The Ultimate Collection is the only Newsboys compilation to date to include their hit song "Love Liberty Disco."

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Shine" (Tom Lord-Alge remix)	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Going Public (1994)	3:41
2.	"Breakfast"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Take Me to Your Leader (1996)	3:36
3.	"Take Me to Your Leader"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Take Me to Your Leader (1996)	2:58
4.	"It Is You"	Peter Furler	Thrive (2002)	4:21
5.	"You Are My King (Amazing Love)"	Billy James Foote, arr. Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Adoration: The Worship Album (2003)	4:29
6.	"Entertaining Angels"	Jody Davis, Peter Furler, Phil Joel	Step Up to the Microphone (1998)	4:18
7.	"Million Pieces"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Thrive (2002)	4:13
8.	"Joy"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Shine: The Hits (2000)	3:44
9.	"Who?"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Shine: The Hits (2000)	3:32
10.	"In Christ Alone"	Keith Getty, Stuart Townend, arr. Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Adoration: The Worship Album (2003)	4:17
11.	"Spirit Thing"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Going Public (1994)	3:25
12.	"Woohoo"	Peter Furler, Phil Joel	Step Up to the Microphone (1998)	3:23

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Step Up to the Microphone"	Peter Furler, Phil Joel, Jeff Frankenstein	Step Up to the Microphone (1998)	3:57
2.	"In The Belly of the Whale"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)	2:57
3.	"Wherever We Go"	Peter Furler, Phil Joel, Steve Taylor, Lynn Nichols, Tedd T.	GO (2006)	3:27
4.	"Something Beautiful"	Peter Furler, Paul Colman	GO (2006)	3:52
5.	"He Reigns"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Adoration: The Worship Album (2003)	4:55
6.	"Beautiful Sound"	Peter Furler, Phil Joel	Love Liberty Disco (1999)	3:47
7.	"Love Liberty Disco"	Jody Davis, Jeff Frankenstein, Peter Furler, Duncan Phillips	Love Liberty Disco (1999)	3:43
8.	"I Fought The La ..."	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor, Tedd Tjornhom	The Greatest Hits (2007)	3:06
9.	"Stay Strong"	Jeff Frankenstein, Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	The Greatest Hits (2007)	4:07
10.	"Blessed Be Your Name" (featuring Rebecca St. James)	Matt Redman, Beth Redman, arr. Peter Furler	Devotion (2004)	4:34
11.	"Devotion"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Devotion (2004)	3:58
12.	"I'm Not Ashamed"	Peter Furler, Steve Taylor	Not Ashamed (1992)	4:25