The Platinum Collection (Mina album)

The Platinum Collection
Compilation album by
Mina
Released20 February 2004 (2004-02-20)
Recorded1968–2003
Genre
Length218:00
Language
LabelEMI
Mina chronology
Napoli secondo estratto
(2003) 		The Platinum Collection
(2004) 		Bula Bula
(2005)

The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released on 20 February 2004 by EMI.[2]

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).[3] Also in 2011, the album was certified gold in Italy, and platinum in 2014.[4]

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.[5]

Track listing

Disc 1: 1968–1975
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."L'importante è finire"
3:17
2."Non gioco più"
2:53
3."Amor mio"
4:43
4."Io e te da soli"
  • Mogol
  • Battisti
4:31
5."Insieme"
  • Mogol
  • Battisti
4:07
6."Parole parole" (with Alberto Lupo)
3:55
7."Bugiardo e incosciente (La tieta)"
6:18
8."Non credere"
  • Mogol
  • Luigi Clausetti
  • Roberto Soffici
4:06
9."E poi..."
4:48
10."Emozioni"
  • Mogol
  • Battisti
4:33
11."La voce del silenzio"
  • Mogol
  • Limiti
  • Elio Isola
3:46
12."Fa qualcosa"
3:55
13."Vorrei che fosse amore"
2:26
14."E penso a te"
  • Mogol
  • Battisti
3:38
15."Zum zum zum"
  • Amurri
  • Canfora
2:36
16."Grande, grande, grande"
3:56
17."Caro"
3:15
18."Dai dai domani (A praça)"
  • Limiti
  • Carlos Imperial
2:57
19."La musica è finita"
3:08
Total length:72:48
Disc 2: 1976–1989
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Questione di feeling" (with Riccardo Cocciante)
  • Mogol
  • Riccardo Cocciante
4:33
2."Ancora, ancora, ancora"
4:13
3."Magica follia"Lo Vecchio3:53
4."Les cornichons (Big Nick)"
2:59
5."Una lunga storia d'amore"Gino Paoli3:25
6."Già visto"
5:13
7."Momento magico"Anselmo Genovese6:18
8."Allora sì"
  • Califano
  • Massimo Guantini
4:10
9."Via di qua" (with Fausto Leali)
4:51
10."Senza fiato"
  • Osvaldo Miccichè
  • Anselmo Genovese
4:01
11."Se il mio canto sei tu"
  • Paola Blandi
  • Beppe Cantarelli
4:22
12."Rose su rose"
3:56
13."Ma che bontà"Enrico Riccardi2:59
14."Un'aquila nel cuore"Genovese3:32
15."Buonanotte, buonanotte"
5:54
16."Città vuota (It's a Lonely Town)" (1978 version)
4:59
17."Tres palabras"Osvaldo Farrés3:21
18."Il cielo in una stanza" (with Renato Sellani)Paoli2:41
Total length:75:20
Disc 3: 1990–2003
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Neve"
  • Giovanni Donzelli
  • Vincenzo Leomporro
5:16
2."Il pazzo"Giancarlo Bigazzi4:05
3."Volami nel cuore"
  • Testa
  • Manrico Mologni
  • Gualtiero Malgoni
3:32
4."Johnny"Giulia Fasolino4:53
5."Non c'è più audio"
  • Donzelli
  • Leomporro
4:44
6."In vista della sera"
5:06
7."Can't Take My Eyes Off You"Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe5:23
8."Un'estate fa (Une belle histoire)"
4:00
9."Fosse vero"
  • Alberto De Martini
  • Pani
4:16
10."Amore, amore, amore mio"
  • Castellari
  • Giacinto De Mitri
4:53
11."Raso" (with Audio 2)
  • Donzelli
  • Leomporro
4:26
12."Something"George Harrison3:01
13."Come stai?" (with Massimiliano Pani)
  • Pani
  • Calabrese
  • Claudia Ferrandi
4:28
14."Il corvo"Marco Luberti3:38
15."Fortissimo"
5:54
16."Cry Me a River"Arthur Hamilton5:18
Total length:69:52

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.

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications for The Platinum Collection
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)[4] Platinum 650,000[8]

References

  1. ^ Mina – The Platinum Collection at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Ultime notizie – Mina platinum collection". minamazzini.com (in Italian). 17 February 2004. Archived from the original on 8 April 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Italiancharts.com – Mina – The Platinum Collection". Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Italian album certifications – Mina – The Platinum Collection" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Mina - The Platinum Collections Special Edition". Discogs. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Classifica annuale 2004 (dal 29.12.2003 al 02.01.2005)" (in Italian). FIMI. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Classifica annuale 2005 (dal 03.01.2005 al 01.01.2006)" (in Italian). FIMI. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  8. ^ Barlozzetti, Guido. "Mina: Gli 80 anni della tigre di cremona". RAI. Retrieved 25 October 2022.