# Gold: Greatest Hits (Carpenters album)

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Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American duo Carpenters released in 2000.

## Overview

The 20 track compilation covers the period from 1969 to 1981. Some editions contained "Hurting Each Other" as a bonus track.
The compilation was repackaged as a 2001 dutch Yesterday Once More: De Nederlandse Singles Collectie by replacing "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" with "Sweet, Sweet Smile" and placing it as track 6.
The cover art of the album replicates the 1992 Gold: Greatest Hits compilation album by ABBA.
The accompanying video album of the same name followed in 2002.

### 35th Anniversary Edition

Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition is an expanded two-disc version of the compilation released in early 2004. It contains all of the tracks of the earlier 2000 version and expands the timeline to the duo's latest release, As Time Goes By. It also features the single version of "Solitaire" for the first time on CD.
The Canadian 2005 release of the album is simply titled Gold, without a subtitle, and features a colour photo cover, not the original black cover.

## Track listing
### Original release

* "Yesterday Once More" – 3:59
* "Superstar" – 3:47
* "Rainy Days and Mondays" (1991 Remix) – 3:35
* "Goodbye to Love" – 3:56
* "It's Going to Take Some Time" – 2:59
* "I Won't Last a Day Without You" – 3:54
* "For All We Know" – 2:32
* "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – 3:37
* "Touch Me When We're Dancing" – 3:21
* "Please Mr. Postman" – 2:48
* "I Need to Be in Love" – 3:50
* "Solitaire" – 4:41
* "We've Only Just Begun" – 3:05
* "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1991 Remix) – 3:41
* "This Masquerade" (1990 Remix) – 4:53
* "Ticket to Ride" – 4:09
* "Top of the World" (Single Version) – 2:58
* "Only Yesterday" – 3:46
* "Sing" – 3:20
* "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" – 7:09

### Remix notes

Most of the songs listed here are remixes. This compilation's songs have more refined and re-recorded tracks, less noise in the background, and a lot of reverberation in the background.
* ^† These songs include a harder bass drum line and considerably more reverberation than the original version. "Top of the World" is mixed with an alternate ending to segue into "Maybe It's You".
* ^‡ All of these songs are from the Japan-exclusive album As Time Goes By. The tracks from As Time Goes By were remixed in the late 1990s/early 2000s and had not yet been released in the United States.

## Personnel

* Richard Carpenter – compilation producer, liner notes
* Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering
* Stewart Whitmore – assembling at Marcussen Mastering
* Mike Ragogna – project director
* Adam Abrams, Barry Korkin and Lee Lodyga – project coordination

## Charts
### Gold: Greatest Hits

| Chart (2000-2005) | Peak position |
| Danish Albums (Hitlisten) | 24 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) | 17 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) | 6 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 4 |
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
| Greek Albums (IFPI) | 1 |

### Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition

| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
| US Billboard 200 | 101 |

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | 5× Platinum | 1,500,000$^‡$ |
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000$^^$ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. $^‡$ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |||