Super Hits (Ricky Van Shelton album)

Super Hits
Greatest hits album by Ricky Van Shelton
Released May 2, 1995
Genre Country
Length 30:48
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.

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 Waters 2:29
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 Louvin 3:49
8. "I Am a Simple Man"  Walt Aldridge 3:26
9. "Somebody Lied"  Joe Chambers, Larry Jenkins 3:21
10. "From a Jack to a King"  Ned Miller 2:21

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

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 Albums 64

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Top Country Albums 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Inc. p. 225. ISBN 0-89820-173-X.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Super Hits review". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "Chart listing for Super Hits". Billboard. Retrieved 24 September 2010.