The Platinum Collection (Mike Oldfield album)


The Platinum Collection is a 2006 Virgin Records compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It contains most of Oldfield's best known work, and some rare mixes of songs that had previously only been available as B-sides to singles.
The first two discs are entirely made up of content from Oldfield's Virgin albums, whereas some pieces on disc three are under licence from Warner.

Charts

It charted at number 36 in the UK Albums Chart but left the charts after only three weeks. It also peaked at number 12 in the Spanish Album Charts.
Chart Position
UK Albums Chart36
Spanish Album Charts12

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Tubular Bells"
  2. "Tubular Bells"
  3. "The Sailor's Hornpipe"
  4. "Hergest Ridge"
  5. "Ommadawn"
  6. "Ommadawn"
  7. "In Dulci Jubilo"
  8. "Don Alfonso"
  9. "Portsmouth"
  10. "William Tell Overture"
  11. "Cuckoo Song"
  12. "Incantations"
  13. "Platinum"
  14. "Woodhenge"

    Disc two

  15. "Moonlight Shadow"
  16. "Blue Peter"
  17. "Guilty"
  18. "Arrival"
  19. "Wonderful Land"
  20. "Sheba"
  21. "Five Miles Out"
  22. "Family Man"
  23. "Mistake"
  24. "Shadow on the Wall"
  25. "Foreign Affair"
  26. "In High Places"
  27. "Crime of Passion"
  28. "Tricks of the Light"
  29. "To France"
  30. "Étude"
  31. "Evacuation"

    Disc three

  32. "Sentinel"
  33. "Pictures in the Dark"
  34. "Shine"
  35. "Islands"
  36. "Flying Start"
  37. "The Time Has Come"
  38. "Innocent"
  39. "Earth Moving"
  40. "Amarok"
  41. "Heaven's Open"
  42. "Hibernaculum"
  43. "Women of Ireland"
  44. "Far Above the Clouds"
  45. "The Millennium Bell"
  46. "To Be Free"