Because of Motown's policy of re-issuing tracks on single on a regular basis, there are some anomalies in the inclusion of tracks.

Early Motown Records releases in Britain were not on the Motown label, but were issued on the London, Fontana, Oriole and Stateside labels. After its success in the UK, Motown went on to release variants of the compilation format in other counties such as the United States and Australia. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

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By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits. The clear differences between the two releases are the logos on the disc and cover: the original release has the Tamla Motown logo; the re-release has the Motown logo. Although the series comprised mainly hit singles by various Motown artists, the albums also included other recordings that had not been hits in Britain and many significant single hits were excluded from the series. The first nine albums were Top 15 UK Albums Chart entries, whereas the later albums from 10 to 12 did not chart. Another difference was the number of tracks per album, the UK version consisted of 16 to 18 tracks, whereas the US version only had 12 tracks.

This consisted of only five albums which had completely different track listings to the UK releases. In 1964, Motown's first number 1 in Britain was " Baby Love" by the Supremes, released on EMI's Stateside label. Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain.Over the next few years, several more compilations were released, including six in the series 16 Original Big Hits. Mary Wells' hit 'My Guy' features on Volume 7, released in 1972, after it had been a substantive reissue hit, despite being first released in 1964 and similarly 'Baby Love' is included on Volume 9, as it had been re-issued in 1974, ten years after it first charted in the UK for The Supremes. The first release on the Tamla Motown label was " Stop In The Name Of Love" by the Supremes, in March 1965. Minor hits were sometimes included in place of bigger hits, most notably for the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson.