Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren

The album contains the most popular hits by Diane Warren.

In 2004, Warner Music came out with a compilation of Diane Warren's all-time hits, on which Nina contributed a song—"I Don't Want to Be Your Friend".[3] She was also the only Asian singer that was featured on the album. In a press conference on July 29, 2008 at Red Box, TriNoma in Quezon City, Nina revealed that she is a fan of Warren, and that she wanted to do a record consisting of her hits. Hearing about the interview, Warren willingly agreed and allowed her request. A message by Warren, stating "A few years ago Nina cut "I Don't Want to Be Your Friend", one of my favorite songs. I am very happy that she is now coming out with an entire album filled with the songs that I'm proud of. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a lot of hits together," can be found on the album's sleeve.[4][5]

In selecting the songs, Warner and Nina wanted to include hits that are familiar to the Filipino listeners, and some of her favorites as well. They thought that people can relate more to the song, if they are familiar with it. For the arrangement, she and her team did only slight changes to not ruin the original mood envisioned by Warren.[4] Bobby Velasco, Alvin Nunez, producer Ferdie Marquez, Mike Luis of Freestyle, Jay Durias of South Border, and Nina's band were assigned to re-arrange the songs.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Titik Pilipino	[6]

Despite certifying Gold just a week after its official release, Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren received very few nominations on awarding events and negative response from OPM critics. Resty Odon of Titik Pilipino gave the album three out of five stars, saying "To be honest, what I've been expecting at this point in Nina's career is an album of original compositions suited to her voice. I don't like her being relegated to cover-girl status because I think her big little voice deserves originals." He further stated "there's the risk of Nina having to suffer the inevitable: ruthless comparison with the original interpreters—something I'd rather skip here and leave to more vicious reviewers." However, he praised "I Don't Want to Be Your Friend", saying "It's one song where she didn't have to shout and be a vocal Chinese acrobat."[6]

"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was released as lead single, alongside Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren in August 2008. Nina's rendition of the song was initially compared to Regine Velasquez's R2K (2000) version, which consisted mostly of high notes and vocal belting. Due to its completely different arrangement, Nina's whispery, toned-down mellow version eventually made its own impact to Filipino listeners. The music video premiered on myx in September 2008. "There You'll Be," a Faith Hill original, was chosen personally by Nina as the second single from the album in November 2008. She considered the song as a "thank you" to her fans, and picked it as single due to its message that fits exactly with her gratitude for the support of her fans. Early in 2009, behind-the-scenes footage from the song's music video was posted on Nina's official website. In February 2009, the official music video was released.

Other notable songs

Prior to the album's release, "I Could Not Ask for More" was rumored to be the first single. The song was said to have interpreted Nina's professional and romantic state at the time. However, the release was canceled for unknown reasons, and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" served as first single instead. In early 2009, "Saving Forever for You", a song originally recorded by Shanice, started receiving heavy airplay on TV and radio. It was used in ABS-CBN commercials and in an episode of Your Song entitled "Feb-ibig," starring Christian Bautista and Karylle, which aired on February 15, 2009.

In September 2010, an official music video for "Love Will Lead You Back" was solicited to Philippine music video channels. The video features footage and clips from various music videos recorded by Nina from 2002 to 2009. It was later revealed as her "farewell" single with Warner Music, also serving as the first and only single from her 2010 greatest hits album Diamond: Greatest Hits 2002-2010.

Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren was officially launched on July 29, 2008 at Red Box Karaoke, TriNoma, Quezon City. On August 10, 2008, Nina had another album launch on ASAP '08, where she sang the album's carrier single, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". During the next episode of the show, her album received a Gold Record award for selling over 15,000 copies in the Philippines for only a week. On August 18, 2008, Nina guested on a Boy & Kris episode, "Birit by Request", with Christian Bautista and Lani Misalucha. She performed the first single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". On August 31, 2008, Nina performed the song again on ASAP '08 together with Pinoy Dream Academy scholar Liezel Garcia. She performed on MYX Live!, hosted by Jett Pangan, singing eight songs from the album, including the two singles. The episode aired on April 22, 2009.

It is considered to be her second album to reach Gold certification in just one week, following her 10x Platinum third effort, Nina Live!.

All tracks are written by Diane Warren, and produced by Neil Gregorio.

Disc 2: Nina Sings the Hits of Diane Warren (Minus One)[2]

Credits were taken from Titik Pilipino.[2]