| The Hits | ||||
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| Released | December 13, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 66:08 | |||
| Label | Liberty | |||
| Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | A[2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [4] |
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.
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]
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Garth Brooks". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ^ Browne, David (December 23, 1994). "The Hits Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 25, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- ^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 105. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
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- ^ "Garth Brooks". Garth Brooks. December 13, 1994. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2013.