Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 is the RIAA Platinum-certified first greatest hits album released by Aretha Franklin since she signed with Arista Records in 1980.
 As it can be read in the title, it compiles her hits from 1980's "Aretha" all through her last album at the time, 1991's "What You See Is What You Sweat".
Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album and final release by Irish boy band Westlife.
 It was released on 18 November 2011 by RCA Records and Sony Music.
 "Greatest Hits" is the group's second greatest hits album following "" (2002).
 The album is the group's first album not under Syco Music and not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011.
 The greatest hits album contains numerous singles that span throughout the band's career, as well as four new songs produced by John Shanks, which includes the lead single "Lighthouse", which was released on 14 November 2011.
 The compilation was released in two different formats, a standard edition containing the album's eighteen tracks, and a deluxe edition featuring numerous other singles of the band's discography, as well as a DVD containing almost all of the band's music videos.
Dance Again... the Hits is the first greatest hits album of American singer Jennifer Lopez.
 It was released on July 20, 2012, by Epic Records, to coincide with the launch of her first world tour, the Dance Again World Tour.
 Lopez previously conceived plans for a greatest hits album in 2009, but instead opted to use the material recorded for her seventh studio album, "Love?
", which was released by Island Records in May 2011 after her departure from Epic Records in 2010.
 As Lopez owed the label one last album to fulfill her contract, she began work on a new greatest hits album in November 2011.
 She later became unsure whether she wanted to go along with plans to release a greatest hits album or a new studio album, eventually deciding on the former.
The Hits Chapter 1 is the first greatest hits album released by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw.
 It was issued in 1995 (see 1995 in country music) on the Mercury Records label.
 The album comprises the ten greatest hits from his first three studio albums: four each from 1991's "Don't Go Near the Water" and 1993's "Haunted Heart", plus two more from 1994's "Feelin' Good Train".
 Also included are "Still Lovin' You" (the third track from "Haunted Heart", never released as a single) and the new track "Your Tattoo", which was released as a single in 1995 and peaked at #47 on the country charts.
 "The Hits Chapter 1" earned a gold certification from the RIAA for shipping 500,000 copies in the United States.
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Kenny Chesney, released on September 26, 2000 on BNA Records.
 It features hits from his previous albums, as well as newly recorded tracks.
 Two of the new tracks — "I Lost It" and "Don't Happen Twice" — were issued as singles.
 Also released from this album was a re-recording of his 1994 single "The Tin Man".
 "Greatest Hits" has been certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA for US shipments of four million copies.
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.
 Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at the church of her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church.
 In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success.
 Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think".
 By the end of the 1960s decade she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album released by American country music artist Billy Dean.
 It reprises his first nine singles, presented in chronological order from 1991's "Only Here for a Little While" to 1993's "I'm Not Built That Way", as well as the track "Once in a While", which was also included on the soundtrack to the 1994 film "8 Seconds".
 The album was certified gold by the RIAA.
The Hits is the second compilation album and first wide-released greatest hits album from American country music artist Garth Brooks.
 Brooks first greatest hits album, "The Garth Brooks Collection", was released three months earlier exclusively at McDonald's restaurants for a limited time to raise money for the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.
 "The Hits" was released on December 13, 1994 and is now out of print.
 This was due to Brooks' views for whole record sales, instead of albums of singles.
 He insisted it only be available for a limited time, but not before it sold well over ten million copies (which at that time became his first album to achieve Diamond Series).
 "The Hits" debuted at #1 on the "Billboard" 200, and Top Country Albums.
 A CD Zoom containing 20-second sound bites of 61 songs accompanied "The Hits".
 In June 1995, the master was buried under Brooks’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Essential Mariah Carey is the third greatest hits album by American singer Mariah Carey.
 The album was released in June 2011 in the UK and Ireland as a repackage of her previous album "Greatest Hits".
 In the US, it was released on September 3, 2011 as an entirely new greatest hits album as part of Sony's The Essential series, and contains songs released during Mariah's time at Columbia Records.
 It replaces some songs (featured on the original 2001 "Greatest Hits" release) with their extended club mixes, and others being completely removed in favor of tracks that had not been released as singles.
 Much of the artwork inside the album booklet is very similar to that of the "Greatest Hits" release.
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released in the United States on December 4, 2001 by Columbia Records.
 It is a greatest hits double album: CD 1 is primarily a collection of Carey's hits from 1990 to 1995, while CD 2 is primarily a collection of hits from 1996 to 2000.
 In 2011, the album was re-issued outside the US with the same track listing, under the title of "The Essential Mariah Carey".
 In 2012, "The Essential Mariah Carey" was released in North America with a slightly different track listing, replacing some hits with their extended club mixes, and others being completely removed in favor of tracks that had not been released as singles.
 Much of the artwork inside the album booklet is very similar to that of the "Greatest Hits" release.

Question: ] Greatest Hits: 1980–1994 is the RIAA Platinum-certified first greatest hits album released by an artist born in which year ?
Answer: 1942