Hits Alive

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Hits Alive
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Compilation album / Live Album by
ReleasedNovember 2, 2010 (2010-11-02) [1]
Genre Country
Length114:01
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Frank Rogers
Brad Paisley chronology
American Saturday Night
(2009)
Hits Alive
(2010)
This Is Country Music
(2011)
Singles from Hits Alive
  1. "Anything Like Me"
    Released: August 16, 2010
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Hits Alive is the title of a greatest-hits album package released by American country music artist Brad Paisley. This album contains two CDs of a collection of Paisley's greatest hits spanning his entire career. The first disc contains studio versions, and the second disc contains live versions. It was released on November 2, 2010, on Arista Nashville. It sold 31,000 copies in its first week. As of the chart dated April 16, 2011, the album has sold 235,881 copies in the US. [3]

Contents

Content

The album contains both studio versions as well as live versions of Paisley's greatest hits. Disc one contains studio versions of fourteen of his songs, including a special piano mix of "Then." Disc two contains live versions of eleven of his songs recorded while Paisley was on The H2O Tour 2010.

The only single from Hits Alive is "Anything Like Me," which first appeared on his 2009 album American Saturday Night . The song debuted on country radio on August 16, 2010. [4]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Mud on the Tires"Brad Paisley, Chris DuBois Mud on the Tires 3:28
2."Ticks"Paisley, Tim Owens, Kelley Lovelace 5th Gear 4:33
3."Anything Like Me"DuBois, Paisley, Dave Turnbull American Saturday Night 4:29
4."The World"Paisley, Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller Time Well Wasted 4:01
5."Little Moments"Paisley, DuBoisMud on the Tires3:39
6."When I Get Where I'm Going" (featuring Dolly Parton) Rivers Rutherford, George TerenTime Well Wasted4:08
7."Celebrity"PaisleyMud on the Tires3:43
8."Then" (Piano Mix)Paisley, DuBois, Ashley Gorley American Saturday Night4:22
9."I'm Still a Guy"Paisley, Lovelace, Miller5th Gear4:11
10."He Didn't Have to Be"Paisley, Lovelace Who Needs Pictures 4:42
11."Alcohol"PaisleyTime Well Wasted4:52
12."Whiskey Lullaby" (featuring Alison Krauss) Bill Anderson, Jon Randall Mud on the Tires4:19
13."We Danced"Paisley, DuBoisWho Needs Pictures3:45
14."Online" (w/Live Outro)Paisley, DuBois, Lovelace5th Gear4:50
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Water" (Live)Paisley, DuBois, Lovelace4:58
2."American Saturday Night" (Live)Paisley, Lovelace, Gorley4:40
3."Waitin' on a Woman" (Live)Don Sampson, Wynn Varble 5:38
4."I'm Gonna Miss Her" (Live)Paisley, Frank Rogers 3:48
5."Mud on the Tires" (Live)Paisley, DuBois4:24
6."She's Everything" (Live)Paisley, Wil Nance6:51
7."Time Warp" (Live, Instrumental)Paisley, Rogers4:38
8."Letter to Me" (Live)Paisley6:31
9."Then" (Live)Paisley, DuBois, Gorley6:22
10."Alcohol" (Live featuring Darius Rucker)Paisley6:25
11."Online" (Reprise)Paisley, DuBois, Lovelace0:51

Personnel

Charts and certifications

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