Super Hits (Willie Nelson album)

Super Hits is the first of two compilation albums in the Super Hits series featuring songs by country singer Willie Nelson. The album was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA for sales of 2 million copies.^[1] As of April 2017, the album has sold 2,919,300 copies in the United States.^[2]

Super Hits
Greatest hits album by Willie Nelson
Released	1994
Genre	Country
Label	Legacy
Producer	Willie Nelson, Sydney Pollack, Merle Haggard, Fred Foster, Booker T. Jones, Chips Moman
Willie Nelson chronology
Half Nelson (1985) Super Hits (1994) Super Hits, Volume 2 (1995)

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"On the Road Again"	Willie Nelson	2:34
2.	"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"	Sharon Vaughn	3:04
3.	"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"	Fred Rose	2:20
4.	"Nothing I Can Do About It Now"	Beth Nielsen Chapman	3:19
5.	"Georgia on My Mind"	Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell	4:21
6.	"Living in the Promiseland"	David Lynn Jones	3:22
7.	"Pancho and Lefty" (with Merle Haggard)	Townes Van Zandt	4:48
8.	"Always on My Mind"	Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson Thompson	3:33
9.	"City of New Orleans"	Steve Goodman	4:50
10.	"Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground"	Nelson	4:24

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

Super Hits received three out of five stars from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.^[3] Erlewine concludes that the album is "not bad" but "far from definitive."^[3]

Chart performance

Super Hits peaked at No. 34 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart the week of July 22, 1995.^[4]

Weekly charts Chart (1994–95) Peak position Canadian Country Albums (RPM) 6 US Billboard 200[5] 98 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 34

Year-end charts Chart (1995) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 60 Chart (1996) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[8] 55 Chart (2001) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[9] 70 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[10] 36

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[11]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Super Hits, Volume 2

Super Hits, Volume 2
Greatest hits album by Willie Nelson
Released	1995
Genre	Country
Label	Legacy
Willie Nelson chronology
Super Hits (1994) Super Hits, Volume 2 (1995) Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993 (1995)

The success of the album resulted in the release of a second volume in 1995. This volume did not repeat the success of the first.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ain't Necessarily So"	Beth Nielsen Chapman	3:06
2.	"Just Out of Reach"	Virgil Stewart	3:36
3.	"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"	Ed Bruce	3:28
4.	"Stardust"	Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish	3:53
5.	"Without a Song"	Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans	3:52
6.	"Seven Spanish Angels"	Troy Seals, Eddie Setser	3:52
7.	"Harbor Lights"	Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams	3:50
8.	"Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)"	Scotty Wiseman	3:50
9.	"When I Dream"	Sandy Mason	3:35
10.	"Let It Be Me"	Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë	3:30