As a part of the Hits compilation series, it contains UK hit singles from the winter and early spring months of 1996.

The album reached number 1 on the UK compilations chart and stayed there for nine weeks.

New Hits 96 contains five songs that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "How Deep Is Your Love", "Return of the Mack", "Firestarter", "Up on the Roof" and "Don't Look Back in Anger".

The B-side to "Don't Look Back in Anger", Oasis' cover of Slade's "Cum On Feel the Noize", also features on the album.

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