The Platinum Collection (Mina album)

The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released on 20 February 2004 by EMI.

Overview
The 52-track, three-disc box set details Mina's recording career at PDU starting in 1968. The set highlights Mina's best moments and give a depth that is essential to her fans, but does not include any tracks recorded by Mina for Italdisc (1959-1964) or Ri-Fi (1964-1967).

Some rare songs previously published only on vinyl records were published here for the first time: "Caro" (B-side of the single "Vorrei che fosse amore", 1968), "Dai dai domani" (B-side of "Glaube Ihr Nicht" or "Non credere", 1969), "La musica e finita" (published in the 1968 album Le più belle canzoni italiane interpretate da Mina) and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (the Italian version first appeared on the 1968 live album Mina alla Bussola dal vivo, and in 2003 Mina re-recorded the English version and released it as a single).

The album reached the first place in the Italian album chart, in total it stayed on the chart for 172 weeks (almost a year in the top twenty and three years in total). Also in 2011, the album was certified gold in Italy, and platinum in 2014.

In 2006, the compilation was reissued in the limited box set The Platinum Collection Special Edition, along with the continuation of this compilation The Platinum Collection 2.

Track listing
In the first batch of the album on the third disc, the 1971 version of the song "Something" from the album Mina was mistakenly placed instead of the 1993 version from the album Mina canta i Beatles, in subsequent editions this was corrected.

Certifications and sales

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