Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child is the third compilation album by American R&Bgirl groupDestiny'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.
Background and release
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".[1][2] During the interview, he also mentioned plans for a possible tour.[1][2] 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 hitscompilation 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.[3]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the website AllMusic praised Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child along with their other greatest hits compilation #1's for being "excellent overviews of the biggest and best female R&B group of their time".[5] He further noted similarities in their content as they shared twelve same songs on their respective track listings.[5] James Robertson of Daily Mirror magazine described the album as "amazing" and added that "unlike other albums that recycle good songs to ship some of their rubbish new material it's actually awesome".[6]Consequence of Sound writer Jeremy D. Larson described the compilation as "hit-heavy".[7] Chris Martins of Spin felt that the album "sans any big surprises" due to lack of newly recorded material by the group.[8] Gerrick D. Kennedy writing for the Los Angeles Times felt that "sadly, [the album] won't feature any goodies that a fan of the sassy pop-R&B group didn't already own" further noting that it covered "largely the same ground" as #1's.[9]
Commercial performance
On the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States, Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child debuted and peaked at number 77 on the chart issue dated December 8, 2012.[10] The album also spent an additional week on the chart.[11] The album performed better on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums where it peaked at number 17 and charted for a total of nine weeks.[12] In November 2012, Billboard magazine revealed that Playlist – The Very Best of Destiny's Child was the highest ranking album in Legacy Recording's Playlist series.[13] Following Destiny's Child reunion performance at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show on February 3, 2013, the compilation climbed to number 66 on the iTunes Albums chart.[14]
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