The 2012 budget-line compilation
Playlist: The Very Best of Britney Spears
covers much of the same ground as 2009's
The Singles Collection
but does take into account 2011's
Femme Fatale
, adding "Till the World Ends" and "Hold It Against Me." What was cut from
Singles
is generally not missed, as the big songs are here -- "Baby One More Time," "You Drive Me Crazy," "Oops...I Did It Again," "I'm a Slave 4 U," "Toxic" -- making this arguably a preferable comp to its full-price predecessor. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine