Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child
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| Compilation album by Destiny's Child | ||||
| Released | October 9, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 1997–2005 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 52:23 | |||
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Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child is the third compilation album by American R&B girl group Destiny's Child. It was released on October 9, 2012 through Columbia Records matching with the fifteenth anniversary of Destiny's Child's formation. The compilation contained fourteen songs from the group's repertoire consisting of four studio albums.
Upon its release, the received positive reviews from critics who praised its track list featuring the band's most popular songs; however some of them noted the lack of new material as a downside. It peaked at numbers 77 and 17 on the Billboard 200 and the magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart respectively, becoming the highest ranking release of the playlist album series through Legacy Recordings.
On July 7, 2012, Mathew Knowles, the music manager of the group, revealed that Destiny's Child would reunite after a seven-year-long hiatus saying, "We still have our joint venture with Sony, and in November, we're putting out two Destiny's Child catalog records with new material". During the interview, he also mentioned plans for a possible tour. Later it was confirmed through a press release by Music World Entertainment, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on September 19, 2012 that the album would be a greatest hits compilation album titled Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child and it would be released on October 9, 2012 to mark the group's fifteenth anniversary since its formation.
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