Super Hits (Ricky Van Shelton album)

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Super Hits
Super Hits album cover by Ricky Van Shelton.jpg
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedMay 2, 1995
Genre Country
Length30:48
Label Columbia Nashville
Producer Steve Buckingham
Joe Casey
Ricky Van Shelton chronology
Love and Honor
(1994)
Super Hits
(1995)
Super Hits Vol. 2
(1996)

Super Hits is a budget music compilation of Ricky Van Shelton released by Columbia Records after he had left the label. Sony Records re-released the compilation the same year under their budget label with a different cover. It includes many of his hit singles as well as album tracks.

Contents

Super Hits was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies. [1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Statue of a Fool" Jan Crutchfield 3:04
2."I've Cried My Last Tear for You"Tony King, Chris Waters2:29
3."I'll Leave This World Loving You" Wayne Kemp 3:06
4."Life Turned Her That Way" Harlan Howard 3:23
5."Don't We All Have the Right" Roger Miller 2:36
6."Crime of Passion" Walt Aldridge, Mac McAnally 3:27
7."Keep It Between the Lines" Russell Smith, Cathy Louvin3:49
8."I Am a Simple Man" Walt Aldridge 3:26
9."Somebody Lied"Joe Chambers, Larry Jenkins3:21
10."From a Jack to a King" Ned Miller 2:21

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Super Hits received four out of five stars from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic. [2] Erlewine concludes that the album is "not bad" but "far from definitive.". [2]

Chart performance

Super Hits peaked at #64 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart the week of June 17, 1995. [3]

Chart (1995)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums64

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Top Country Albums 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Inc. p. 225. ISBN   0-89820-173-X.
  2. 1 2 3 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Super Hits review". Allmusic . Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. "Chart listing for Super Hits". Billboard . Retrieved 24 September 2010.