Platinum & Gold Collection
Platinum & Gold Collection is a series of budget-priced greatest hits compilations for recording artists on the labels of Sony BMG. The series was launched as a Sony BMG counterpart to Universal Music Group's successful 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series. Most Platinum & Gold Collection albums contain 12 tracks.
The Platinum and Gold Collection is a series of discount-priced greatest hits CDs by bands who have recorded for BMG or its subsidiaries.
The albums are often compiled by the label without the participation or approval of the bands being anthologized, and as a result, the CDs are often boycotted by fans of the bands. One notable example is the Cowboy Junkies anthology.
However, for some older artists, Platinum and Gold Collection CDs may also be the only hits compilations currently available in record stores.
Artists with releases in the Platinum & Gold Collection series
- Petula Clark
- Starship
- Lita Ford
- Lit
- Matthew Sweet
- A Flock of Seagulls
- Ace of Base
- Air Supply
- Alabama
- Alan Parsons
- Angela Bofill
- Aretha Franklin
- Blackhawk
- Carly Simon
- Cowboy Junkies
- Dionne Warwick
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
- DJ Quik
- Dolly Parton
- Eartha Kitt
- Evelyn "Champagne" King
- Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Harry Belafonte
- Henry Mancini
- Iggy Pop
- James Brown
- Jefferson Airplane
- Jennifer Warnes
- Journey
- Jefferson Starship
- Keith Whitley
- Lou Reed
- Melissa Manchester
- Michael Hedges
- Neil Sedaka
- Blink-182
- Next
- Peter Frampton
- Perry Como
- Real McCoy
- Rick Springfield
- Roger Miller
- Sublime
- SWV
- Taylor Dayne
- The Alan Parsons Project
- The Delfonics
- The Guess Who
- The Jeff Healey Band
- The Lovin' Spoonful
- Outlaws
- The Pointer Sisters
- The Verve Pipe
- Scott Raynor
- Thompson Twins
- Travis Barker
- Toni Braxton
- Tom Delonge
- Mark Hoppus
- Tony Orlando and Dawn
- Vince Gill
- Waylon Jennings
- Willie Nelson
- Rick Astley
- Lynyrd Skynyrd