Santana's Ultimate Hits makes chart debut

Santana's new Ultimate Hits collection debuted at Number Eight on Billboard's Top 200 chart this week. The career-spanning collection features both past hits and never-before-released material, including the single "Into The Night," featuring Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. Santana and Kroeger already have a hit song together with 2002's "Why Don't You and I."

The Nickelback frontman tells us that this time he got to spend some quality time with Carlos Santana: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "The last time it was just I got the song over. This time it just was entirely different. I mean we actually hung out together. We went down to San Francisco and we hung out and it was a lot of fun to get see things done. You just learn, and everybody does it completely differently."

Kroeger tells us how the song "Into The Night" came about: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "I had this tune and it had this very lax feel to it. So we sent it over to Santana to see if he'd be interested in jamming with it. We flew down to San Francisco and had Carlos play all his guitar parts on it. And his percussion guy came in and Chester, his B-Three guy that he used to play with in Tower of Power. And they all laid down incredible parts on this song. And it turned out amazing. We're all really proud of it."

Tina Turner duets on the song, "The Game of Love," which was a hit for Santana and Michelle Branch in 2002. Ultimate Santana also includes such hits as "Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways" and "Smooth" featuring Rob Thomas, among others.

2007 marks 40 years since the original Santana Blues Band performed its first gigs at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.