The Hits (Faith Hill album)

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The Hits
The Hits cover
Greatest hits by Faith Hill
Released Flag of Italy September 28, 2007
Flag of the United States October 2, 2007
Recorded 1993-2007
Genre Country
Length 59:10
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Faith Hill,
Byron Gallimore,
Dann Huff
Faith Hill chronology
Fireflies
(2005)		 The Hits
(2007)		 TBD

The Hits is the first US greatest hits album from country singer Faith Hill. It was originally supposed to be released on May 8, 2007, but was pushed back several times until it was finally released on October 2, 2007.[1]

Hill initially planned to re-record her prior hits for the album:

“ It’s been difficult selecting the songs for The Hits. But when we decided to focus on what you’d want, the decisions became much clearer. We’re planning on newer, different versions of some songs and we’ve got a few new surprises on The Hits. Leave it to me, I would’ve made a whole album of surprises, but then it wouldn’t have been The Hits and it wouldn’t be coming out on October 2nd.[1] ”

Ultimately, the only tracks that were not the same as the original album versions were the live version of "Stronger" (an album track from Cry that was never released as a single) and the single remixes of "Breathe", "The Way You Love Me", and "This Kiss". The album contains all eight of her solo No. 1 Country singles in addition to two songs, Cry (No. 12 Country) and There You'll Be (No. 11 Country), which topped the AC chart. ("Breathe" topped both the Country and AC charts.)

The first single, Lost was released in May, 2007. The song did not perform well on the Country charts peaking only at #32.[2] In September 2007, the song was released to AC radio and has peaked at #11 in January 2008. Faith debuted the second and final new track from the album, Red Umbrella, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on September 5. The song was released to Country radio on September 13.[3] Red Umbrella hardly performed any better than on the charts, only peaking at #28. The album also features her Grammy nominated duet with Tim McGraw I Need You.

The album debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 and #3 on the Country Albums charts selling 69,368 copies in its first week. This became her lowest debuting album on the Billboard 200 since 1995's It Matters to Me. A special edition of the CD was also released with a companion DVD featuring videos of some of Hill's singles. [4]

To date, the album has sold about 251,382 copies in the US.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Red Umbrella" (Aimee Mayo, Chris Lindsey, Brett Warren, Brad Warren) - 3:39
  2. "Stronger" (Live) (Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges) - 6:15
  3. "I Need You" (with Tim McGraw) (David Lee, Tony Lane) - 4:09
  4. "Lost" (Kara DioGuardi, Mitch Allan) - 4:11
  5. "Mississippi Girl" (John Rich, Adam Shoenfeld) - 3:53
  6. "Cry" (Angie Aparo) - 3:48
  7. "There You'll Be" (Diane Warren) - 3:42
  8. "The Way You Love Me" (Keith Follesé, Michael Dulaney) - 3:29
  9. "Breathe" (Stephanie Bentley, Holly Lamar) - 4:08
  10. "The Secret of Life" (Gretchen Peters) - 4:15
  11. "Let Me Let Go" (Steve Diamond, Dennis Morgan) - 4:25
  12. "This Kiss" (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff) - 3:15
  13. "It Matters to Me" (Ed Hill, Mark D. Sanders) - 3:18
  14. "Piece of My Heart" (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns) - 4:02
  15. "Wild One" (Pat Bunch, Jamie Kyle, Will Rambeaux) - 2:47

[edit] DVD track listing

  1. "Mississippi Girl"
  2. "Cry"
  3. "The Way You Love Me"
  4. "Breathe"
  5. "The Secret of Life"
  6. "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me"
  7. "Let Me Let Go"
  8. "This Kiss"
  9. "It Matters to Me"
  10. "Piece of My Heart"
  11. "Wild One"

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "The Hits" To Be Released October 2nd!
  2. ^ Billboard Chart Listing for "Lost"
  3. ^ Faith Debuts New Single on Ellen
  4. ^ allmusic (((The Hits CD/DVD Overview)))
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Faith Hill
Albums
Take Me as I Am (1993) • It Matters to Me (1995) • Faith (1998) • Breathe (1999) • There You'll Be: The Best of Faith Hill (international only) (2001) • Cry (2002) • Fireflies (2005) • The Hits (2007)
Number-one singles
"Wild One" (1993) • "Piece of My Heart" (1994) • "It Matters to Me" (1995) • "It's Your Love" (w/ Tim McGraw) (1997) • "This Kiss" (1998) • "Let Me Let Go" (1998) • "Breathe" (1999) • "The Way You Love Me" (2000) • "There You'll Be" (2001) • "Cry" (2002) • "Mississippi Girl" (2005)
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