16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album)

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16 Biggest Hits
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Greatest hits album by
Merle Haggard
ReleasedJuly 14, 1998
Genre Country
Length50:46
Label Legacy Recordings
Merle Haggard chronology
1996
(1996)		16 Biggest Hits
(1998)		For the Record, 43 Legendary Hits
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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16 Biggest Hits is a 1998 Merle Haggard compilation album. It is part of a series of similar 16 Biggest Hits albums released by Legacy Recordings.

Contents

All songs except "Big City", "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" and "Going Where the Lonely Go" are re-recordings from October 1994.

The album was certified Gold in 2002 by the RIAA. [2] It has sold 955,000 copies in the US as of May 2013. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) – 2:50
  2. "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) – 2:42
  3. "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) – 3:09
  4. "Branded Man" (Haggard) – 3:09
  5. "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 2:50
  6. "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:10
  7. "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) – 3:37
  8. "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) – 2:41
  9. "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) – 2:41
  10. "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) – 2:52
  11. "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) – 3:39
  12. "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 3:40
  13. "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 3:00
  14. "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) – 4:14
  15. "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) – 4:50
  16. "Silver Wings" (Haggard) – 2:47

Personnel

The Strangers:

Chart performance

16 Biggest Hits peaked at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1999. [4]

Chart (1998–1999)Peak
position
US Billboard Top Country Albums55
Chart (2016)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [5] 167

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [2] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r366311
  2. 1 2 "American album certifications – Merle Haggard – 16 Biggest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.
  3. ↑ Paul Grein (May 8, 2013). "Week Ending May 5, 2013. Albums: Kenny Closes In On Garth". Yahoo Music (Chart Watch). Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Chart listing for 16 Biggest Hits". Allmusic . Retrieved September 21, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Merle Haggard Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
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