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The Hits (Garth Brooks album)

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Length
  
76:05

The Hits (1994)
  
Fresh Horses (1995)

Release date
  
13 December 1994

Genre
  
Country music

Label
  
Liberty

Artist
  
Garth Brooks

Producer
  
Allen Reynolds

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Released
  
December 13, 1994 (1994-12-13)

Awards
  
American Music Award for Favorite Country Album

Similar
  
Ropin' the Wind, No Fences, Sevens, Double Live, In Pieces

The Hits is the second compilation album and first wide-released greatest hits album from American country music artist Garth Brooks. Brooks first greatest hits album, The Garth Brooks Collection, was released three months earlier exclusively at McDonald's restaurants for a limited time to raise money for the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities. The Hits was released on December 13, 1994 and is now out of print. This was due to Brooks' views for whole record sales, instead of albums of singles. He insisted it only be available for a limited time, but not before it sold well over ten million copies (which at that time became his first album to achieve Diamond Series). The Hits debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and Top Country Albums. A CD Zoom containing 20-second sound bites of 61 songs accompanied The Hits. In June 1995, the master was buried under Brooks’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)" (from In Pieces) (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Garth Brooks) – 4:33 (1993)
  2. "Friends in Low Places" (from No Fences) (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl "Bud" Lee) – 4:18 (1990)
  3. "Callin' Baton Rouge" (from In Pieces) (Dennis Linde) – 2:38 (1993)
  4. "The River" (from Ropin' the Wind) (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 4:25 (1991)
  5. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (from Garth Brooks) (Randy Taylor, Brooks) – 2:53 (1989)
  6. "The Thunder Rolls" (from No Fences) (Pat Alger, Brooks) – 3:42 (1990)
  7. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (from In Pieces) (Bryan Kennedy, Jim Rushing) – 3:33 (1993)
  8. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (from Garth Brooks) (Blazy, Brooks) – 3:37 (1989)
  9. "Unanswered Prayers" (from No Fences) (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) – 3:23 (1990)
  10. "Standing Outside the Fire" (from In Pieces) (Jenny Yates, Brooks) – 3:52 (1993)
  11. "Rodeo" (from Ropin' the Wind) (Bastian) – 3:53 (1991)
  12. "What She's Doing Now" (from Ropin' the Wind) (Alger, Brooks) – 3:26 (1991)
  13. "We Shall Be Free" (from The Chase) (Stephanie Davis, Brooks) – 3:48 (1992)
  14. "Papa Loved Mama" (from Ropin' the Wind) (Williams, Brooks) – 2:51 (1991)
  15. "Shameless" (from Ropin' the Wind) (Billy Joel) – 4:19 (1991)
  16. "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (from No Fences) (Bobby Boyd, Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins) – 2:31 (1990)
  17. "That Summer" (from The Chase) (Alger, Sandy Mahl, Brooks) – 4:46 (1992)
  18. "The Dance" (from Garth Brooks) (Tony Arata) – 3:37 (1989)
In Europe both "The Red Strokes" and "Burning Bridges" were added to the album due to their success on that continent. "Burning Bridges" as 3rd Track and "The Red Strokes" as 19th Track.

Chart performance

The Hits debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his fourth, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, becoming his fifth #1 Country album. In November 1998, The Hits was certified 10x Platinum by the RIAA.

Songs

1Ain't Goin' Down ('til the Sun Comes Up)4:34
2Friends in Low Places4:20
3Burning Bridges3:35

References

The Hits (Garth Brooks album) Wikipedia
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