The Hits (Garth Brooks album)

The Hits
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedDecember 13, 1994 (1994-12-13)
GenreCountry
Length66:08
LabelLiberty
ProducerAllen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
The Garth Brooks Collection
(1994)
The Hits
(1994)
Fresh Horses
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[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]

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Garth Brooks". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  3. ^ Browne, David (December 23, 1994). "The Hits Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 25, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
  4. ^ 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. rolling stone garth brooks album guide.
  5. ^ "Garth Brooks". Garth Brooks. December 13, 1994. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2013.