The Hits Album is a compilation album released by BMG, CBS and WEA in December 1988 and is the ninth volume of the long-running Hits compilation series.

Possibly in response to the comparatively lower selling The Hits Album 8, the record labels involved in this follow up volume decided to re-boot the Hits series, and this Hits Album was released without the expected chronological '9' and with markedly different artwork and design.

The front cover artwork was a scene captured from the television advertising campaign.

The compilation is listed as The Hits Album 9 in The Complete Book of the British Charts and other chart statistic publications due to the catalogue number 'CDHITS9'.

It includes two songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Orinoco Flow" and "One Moment in Time".