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| 16 Biggest Hits | ||||
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| Released | March 27, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 58:02 | |||
| Label | RCA Nashville, Legacy | |||
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16 Biggest Hits is a 2007 Alabama compilation album. It is part of a series of similar 16 Biggest Hits albums released by Legacy Recordings. It has sold 384,000 copies in the US as of May 2013. [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mountain Music" | Randy Owen | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Song of the South" | Bob McDill | 3:11 |
| 3. | "Love in the First Degree" | Tim DuBois, Jim Hurt | 3:19 |
| 4. | "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" | Murry Kellum, Dan Mitchell | 3:23 |
| 5. | "Born Country" | Byron Hill, John Schweers | 3:18 |
| 6. | "Feels So Right" | Owen | 3:36 |
| 7. | "The Closer You Get" | Mark Gray, J.P. Pennington | 3:36 |
| 8. | "She and I" | Dave Loggins | 5:17 |
| 9. | "Fallin' Again" | Greg Fowler, Teddy Gentry, Owen | 3:59 |
| 10. | "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" | Loggins | 4:26 |
| 11. | "Jukebox in My Mind" | Dave Gibson, Ronnie Rogers | 3:40 |
| 12. | "Down Home" | Rick Bowles, Josh Leo | 3:28 |
| 13. | "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)" | Roger Murrah, Randy VanWarmer | 2:49 |
| 14. | "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" | Bob Corbin | 3:39 |
| 15. | "Southern Star" | Rich Alves, Steve Dean, Murrah | 3:09 |
| 16. | "High Cotton" | Scott Anders, Murrah | 3:00 |
16 Biggest Hits peaked at #40 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart the week of August 16, 2008. [3]
| Chart (2007–2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 40 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA) [4] | Gold | 500,000 |
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