2000 - The Platinum Collection [QUEEN]

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The Platinum Collection is a box set by Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III. A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set. The album's US release was delayed until September 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2 on the US and Canadian versions of The Platinum Collection.

It is the highest charting box set in U.S. history.

Track listing

Disc one: Greatest Hits (1981)
#	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Bohemian Rhapsody"	Freddie Mercury	A Night at the Opera	5:55
2.	"Another One Bites the Dust"	John Deacon	The Game	3:36
3.	"Killer Queen"	Mercury	Sheer Heart Attack	2:57
4.	"Fat Bottomed Girls"	Brian May	Jazz	3:15
5.	"Bicycle Race"	Mercury	Jazz	3:01
6.	"You're My Best Friend"	Deacon	A Night at the Opera	2:52
7.	"Don't Stop Me Now"	Mercury	Jazz	3:29
8.	"Save Me"	May	The Game	3:48
9.	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"	Mercury	The Game	2:42
10.	"Somebody to Love"	Mercury	A Day at the Races	4:56
11.	"Now I'm Here"	May	Sheer Heart Attack	4:10
12.	"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"	Mercury	A Day at the Races	2:54
13.	"Play the Game"	Mercury	The Game	3:33
14.	"Flash"	May	Flash Gordon	2:48
15.	"Seven Seas of Rhye"	Mercury	Queen II	2:47
16.	"We Will Rock You"	May	News of the World	2:01
17.	"We Are the Champions"	Mercury	News of the World	2:59

Disc two: Greatest Hits II (1991)
#	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"A Kind of Magic"	Roger Taylor	A Kind of Magic	4:22
2.	"Under Pressure" (with David Bowie)	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor, David Bowie	Hot Space	3:56
3.	"Radio Ga Ga"	Taylor	The Works	5:43
4.	"I Want It All"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	The Miracle	4:01
5.	"I Want to Break Free"	Deacon	The Works	4:18
6.	"Innuendo"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Innuendo	6:27
7.	"It's a Hard Life"	Mercury	The Works	4:09
8.	"Breakthru"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	The Miracle	4:09
9.	"Who Wants to Live Forever"	May	A Kind of Magic	4:57
10.	"Headlong"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Innuendo	4:33
11.	"The Miracle"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	The Miracle	4:54
12.	"I'm Going Slightly Mad"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Innuendo	4:07
13.	"The Invisible Man"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	The Miracle	3:58
14.	"Hammer to Fall"	May	The Works	3:40
15.	"Friends Will Be Friends"	Mercury, Deacon	A Kind of Magic	4:07
16.	"The Show Must Go On"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Innuendo	4:23
17.	"One Vision"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	A Kind of Magic	4:02

Disc three: Greatest Hits III (1999)
#	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"The Show Must Go On" (live at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris with Elton John)	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor		4:35
2.	"Under Pressure" (with David Bowie; rah mix)	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor, Bowie		4:08
3.	"Barcelona" (performed by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé)	Mercury, Mike Moran	Barcelona	4:25
4.	"Too Much Love Will Kill You"	May, Frank Musker, Elizabeth Lamers	Made in Heaven	4:18
5.	"Somebody to Love" (live at Wembley Stadium with George Michael)	Mercury		5:07
6.	"You Don't Fool Me"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Made in Heaven	5:22
7.	"Heaven for Everyone"	Taylor	Made in Heaven	4:37
8.	"Las Palabras de Amor"	May	Hot Space	4:29
9.	"Driven by You" (performed by Brian May)	May	Back to the Light	4:09
10.	"Living on My Own" (performed by Freddie Mercury)	Mercury	Mr. Bad Guy	3:37
11.	"Let Me Live"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Made in Heaven	4:45
12.	"The Great Pretender" (The Platters cover)	Buck Ram	The Freddie Mercury Album	3:26
13.	"Princes of the Universe"	Mercury	A Kind of Magic	3:31
14.	"Another One Bites the Dust" (with additional vocals from Wyclef Jean)	Deacon		4:20
15.	"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)"	May	Queen Rocks	4:11
16.	"These Are the Days of Our Lives"	Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor	Innuendo	4:22
17.	"Thank God It's Christmas"	Taylor, May		4:19