The Ultimate Hits

Infobox Album |
Name = The Ultimate Hits
Type = compilation
Artist = Garth Brooks


Released = November 6, 2007
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Pearl/Big Machine
Producer = Allen Reynlods
Reviews =
Last album = "The Lost Sessions"
(2005)
This album = "The Ultimate Hits"
(2007)
Next album = TBDExtra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate Cover


Background = lightdarkgreen
Lower caption = Limited Edition

"The Ultimate Hits" is an album from country music artist Garth Brooks, released on November 6, 2007. Brooks has said that "The Ultimate Hits" comprises 34 songs (four of which are new) over two compact discs, as well as a DVD containing his music videos. As his two-year exclusivity deal with Wal-Mart expired in the summer of 2007, the album will be distributed to all retailers through Pearl Records. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003627939 Garth Brooks Is Back With 'Ultimate Hits'] , Billboard, 20 Aug 2007. Retrieved 03 Sep 2007.]

The first single released from the album, "More Than a Memory", made US country chart history the week of September 15, 2007, when it debuted at #1, the first to do so. The other new singles are (current) "Midnight Sun" (written by Brooks, Jerrod Niemann, and Richie Brown), "Leave the Light On" (Randy Goodrum and Tommy Sims), and "Workin' for a Livin'" which peaked in the Top 20.

On October 15, 2007, it was announced there will be a special pink edition. Proceeds from albums with pink covers will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The album debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 352,000 copies in its first week. [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003672227 "Jay-Z Leapfrogs Eagles, Britney For No. 1 Debut"] , Billboard.com, November 14, 2007.] Selling 204,000 copies, the album went to number one on the Top Country Albums chart in its second week. [Reuters, [http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2122754720071122] , Reuters.com, November 22, 2007.] In its third week, The Ultimate Hits sold 192,000 bringing its three week total to more than 748,000 albums sold. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2840491720071128 "Oprah" visit helps Groban soar to No. 1] ] In Great Britain the album was also a hit, reaching #1 in the Country music charts and the top 10 on the pop charts.

On January 18, 2008, the RIAA certified "The Ultimate Hits" Gold, Platinum & 5× Multi-platinum - denoting shipments of 2.5 million in the United States.

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)" (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Garth Brooks)
#"Friends in Low Places" (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl "Bud" Lee)
#"Shameless" (Billy Joel)
#"Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (Bobby Boyd, Warren Dale Haynes, Dennis Robbins)
#"The Beaches of Cheyenne" (Dan Roberts, Bryan Kennedy, Brooks)
#"If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Blazy, Brooks)
#"Papa Loved Mama" (K. Williams, Brooks)
#"More Than a Memory" (Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs, Billy Montana)
#"Good Ride Cowboy" (Jerrod Niemann, Richie Brown, Kennedy, Bob Doyle)
#"In Another's Eyes" (w/ Trisha Yearwood) (Bobby Wood, John Peppard, Brooks)
#"The Fever" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Kennedy, Dan Roberts)
#"Midnight Sun" (Brooks, Niemann, Brown)
#"Learning to Live Again" (Don Schlitz, Stephanie Davis)
#"Longneck Bottle" (w/ Steve Wariner) (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner)
#"To Make You Feel My Love" (Bob Dylan)
#"We Shall Be Free" (Davis, Brooks)
#"The Dance" (Tony Arata)

Disc 2

#"Callin' Baton Rouge" (Dennis Linde)
#"Two Piña Coladas" (Shawn Camp, Benita Hill, Sandy Manson)
#"The Thunder Rolls" (Pat Alger, Brooks)
#"That Summer" (Alger, Sandy Mahl-Brooks, Brooks)
#"The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks)
#"Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" (w/ George Jones) (K. Williams, Amanda Williams, Keith Anderson, George Ducas, Blazy)
#"Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks)
#"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Brooks)
#"Workin' for a Livin'" (w/ Huey Lewis) (Huey Lewis, Chris Hayes)
#"What She's Doing Now" (Alger, Brooks)
#"When You Come Back To Me Again" (Jenny Yates, Brooks)
#"Standing Outside The Fire" (Yates, Brooks)
#"American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Kennedy, Jim Rushing)
#"The Change" (Arata, Wayne Tester)
#"Rodeo" (Bastian)
#"Wrapped Up In You" (Wayne Kirkpatick)
#Bonus Track "Leave a Light On" (Randy Goodrum, Tommy Sims)

Disc 3 (DVD)

#"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)"
#"If Tomorrow Never Comes"
#"The Dance"
#"Friends in Low Places"
#"Unanswered Prayers"
#"Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House"
#"The Thunder Rolls"
#"Rodeo"
#"Shameless"
#"Papa Loved Mama"
#"What She's Doing Now"
#"The River"
#"We Shall Be Free"
#"Learning to Live Again"
#"That Summer"
#"Standing Outside the Fire"
#"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)"
#"Callin' Baton Rouge"
#"American Honky-Tonk Bar Association"
#"The Fever"
#"To Make You Feel My Love"
#"The Beaches of Cheyenne"
#"The Change"
#"Two Piña Coladas"
#"Longneck Bottle" (w/ Steve Wariner)
#"In Another's Eyes" (w/ Trisha Yearwood)
#"Wrapped Up In You"
#"Beer Run"
#"When You Come Back to Me Again"
#"Good Ride Cowboy"
#"More Than a Memory"
#"Workin' for a Livin'" (w/ Huey Lewis)
#"Midnight Sun"

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