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Greatest Bits

album by Jeff Foxworthy

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5600940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Greatest Bits is a compilation album by American comedian Jeff Foxworthy. It was released by Warner Bros. Records on October 12, 1999. The album peaked at number 189 on the Billboard 200 chart and has been certified Gold by the RIAA.

As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 689,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Greatest Bits” as album by Jeff Foxworthy. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Greatest, Bits and album.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Greatest, Bits and album providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Greatest Bits”, the useful work is to connect “album by Jeff Foxworthy” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5600940. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Greatest Bits” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.