The Hits (Garth Brooks album)
1994 greatest hits album by Garth Brooks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hits is the second compilation album, and first wide-released greatest hits album, from American country music artist Garth Brooks, released on December 13, 1994, by Liberty.
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Released | December 13, 1994 (1994-12-13) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 66:08 | |||
Label | Liberty | |||
Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | A[2] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
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 is now out of print 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 10 million copies (which at that time became his first album to achieve Diamond Series).
The album 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.[5]