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The Hits (Garth Brooks album)

The Hits
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Greatest hits album by Garth Brooks
Released December 13, 1994 (1994-12-13)
Genre Country
Length 76:05
Label Liberty
Producer Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
The Garth Brooks Collection
(1994)
The Hits
(1994)
Fresh Horses
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B+
Robert Christgau A
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars

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.

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.


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