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The Platinum Collection
The Platinum Collection
Compilation album by Mina
Released	20 February 2004
Recorded	1968–2003
Genre	Pop; rock;
Length	218:00
Language	Italian; English; Spanish;
Label	EMI
Mina chronology

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

Overview edit

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 edit

Disc 1: 1968–1975
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"L'importante è finire"	Cristiano Malgioglio Alberto Anelli	3:17
2.	"Non gioco più"	Roberto Lerici Gianni Ferrio	2:53
3.	"Amor mio"	Mogol Lucio Battisti	4:43
4.	"Io e te da soli"	Mogol Battisti	4:31
5.	"Insieme"	Mogol Battisti	4:07
6.	"Parole parole" (with Alberto Lupo)	Leo Chiosso Giancarlo Del Re Ferrio	3:55
7.	"Bugiardo e incosciente (La tieta)"	Paolo Limiti Joan Manuel Serrat	6:18
8.	"Non credere"	Mogol Luigi Clausetti Roberto Soffici	4:06
9.	"E poi..."	Andrea Lo Vecchio Shel Shapiro	4:48
10.	"Emozioni"	Mogol Battisti	4:33
11.	"La voce del silenzio"	Mogol Limiti Elio Isola	3:46
12.	"Fa qualcosa"	Alberto Testa Walter Malgoni	3:55
13.	"Vorrei che fosse amore"	Antonio Amurri Bruno Canfora	2:26
14.	"E penso a te"	Mogol Battisti	3:38
15.	"Zum zum zum"	Amurri Canfora	2:36
16.	"Grande, grande, grande"	Testa Tony Renis	3:56
17.	"Caro"	Mina Maurizio Seymandi Augusto Martelli	3:15
18.	"Dai dai domani (A praça)"	Limiti Carlos Imperial	2:57
19.	"La musica è finita"	Nisa Franco Califano Umberto Bindi	3:08
Total length:			72:48

Disc 2: 1976–1989
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Questione di feeling" (with Riccardo Cocciante)	Mogol Riccardo Cocciante	4:33
2.	"Ancora ancora ancora"	Malgioglio Gian Pietro Felisatti	4:13
3.	"Magica follia"	Lo Vecchio	3:53
4.	"Les cornichons (Big Nick)"	Nino Ferrer James Booker	2:59
5.	"Una lunga storia d'amore"	Gino Paoli	3:25
6.	"Già visto"	Massimiliano Pani Celso Valli	5:13
7.	"Momento magico"	Anselmo Genovese	6:18
8.	"Allora sì"	Califano Massimo Guantini	4:10
9.	"Via di qua" (with Fausto Leali)	Giorgio Calabrese Pani	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"	Pani Piero Cassano	3:56
13.	"Ma che bontà"	Enrico Riccardi	2:59
14.	"Un'aquila nel cuore"	Genovese	3:32
15.	"Buonanotte buonanotte"	Carla Vistarini Fabio Massimo Cantini	5:54
16.	"Città vuota (It's a Lonely Town)" (1978 version)	Giuseppe Cassia Doc Pomus Mort Shuman	4:59
17.	"Tres palabras"	Osvaldo Farrés	3:21
18.	"Il cielo in una stanza" (with Renato Sellani)	Paoli	2:41
Total length:			75:20

Disc 3: 1990–2003
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Neve"	Giovanni Donzelli Vincenzo Leomporro	5:16
2.	"Il pazzo"	Giancarlo Bigazzi	4:05
3.	"Volami nel cuore"	Testa Manrico Mologni Gualtiero Malgoni	3:32
4.	"Johnny"	Giulia Fasolino	4:53
5.	"Non c'è più audio"	Donzelli Leomporro	4:44
6.	"In vista della sera"	Camillo Castellari Corrado Castellari	5:06
7.	"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"	Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe	5:23
8.	"Un'estate fa (Une belle histoire)"	Pierre Delanoë Franco Califano Michel Fugain	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 Harrison	3:01
13.	"Come stai?" (with Massimiliano Pani)	Pani Calabrese Claudia Ferrandi	4:28
14.	"Il corvo"	Marco Luberti	3:38
15.	"Fortissimo"	Lina Wertmüller Canfora	5:54
16.	"Cry Me a River"	Arthur Hamilton	5:18
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 edit

Weekly charts edit

Weekly chart performance for *The Platinum Collection*
Chart (2004)	Peak position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[3]	1

Year-end charts edit

Year-end chart performance for *The Platinum Collection*
Chart (2004)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[6]	5

Year-end chart performance for *The Platinum Collection*
Chart (2005)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[7]	47

Certifications and sales edit

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

References edit

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