Hits was the UK number-one EP for 34 weeks, having eight separate stints at the top of the chart from June 1966 until December 1967 – this is the highest number of weeks as number-one EP.

[1][2] Three of the singles had also been previously released in the UK, with "Help Me, Rhonda" and "California Girls" making the top thirty of the Record Retailer chart and "Barbara Ann" peaking at number three in March 1966.

[5][6] It stayed at the top for four weeks and was then displaced by the Walker Brothers' EP I Need You.

Hits returned to the top again on 10 September for another four weeks, being displaced again by the same Walker Brothers EP.

[8] In total, Hits amassed 34 weeks at the top of the chart – more than any other EP.