Golden Best is the double-CD compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Yōsui Inoue

Yosui Inoue

is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears....

. The album was released in July 1999, celebrating his 30-year career as a solo recording artist. It comprises 35 tracks spanning his works after 1972; a year he released his debut album Danzetsu

Danzetsu

is the debut album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in May 1972.Backing tracks of the album were mainly played by the instrumentalists of The Mops, and they were arranged by the group's guitarist Katz Hoshi...

under the renewed stage name.

Golden Best debuted at the number-six on the Japanese Oricon chart and climbed the top in September 1999. It became one of the most successful albums for Inoue, entering the record chart for a year with sales of over 1.4 million copies. The label For Life Music Entertainment stated that Golden Best album has sold more than 2.06 million copies up to late 2008.

After a year from the album's release, a sequel entitled Golden Bad came out. And in 2003, when the album shipped more than 2 million units, an expanded edition called Golden Best Super was issued. It features bonus disc which includes his singles in the 2000s and previously unreleased recordings.

Disc one

1. "" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) - 3:21
2. "" (Inoue, Tamio Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda
   Tamio Okuda
   is a singer, songwriter, and producer. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the band Unicorn. After Unicorn broke up, Okuda moved on to a solo career in 1994 with the single "Ai no Tame ni." He has written and composed many songs for various artists, particularly Puffy...
   
   , credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:31
3. "Make-up Shadow" (Inoue, Utsuru Ayame) - 4:09
4. "" (Inoue, Okuda) (recorded with Tamio Okuda
   Tamio Okuda
   is a singer, songwriter, and producer. He started his career in 1986 as a member of the band Unicorn. After Unicorn broke up, Okuda moved on to a solo career in 1994 with the single "Ai no Tame ni." He has written and composed many songs for various artists, particularly Puffy...
   
   , credited to InoueYōsuiOkudaTamio) - 3:53
5. "" - 3:55
6. "" - 5:35
7. "" - 4:11
8. "" - 2:40
9. "Riverside Hotel" - 3:54
10. "" - 3:27
11. "" - 5:06
12. "" - 3:16
13. "Crazy Love" - 4:04
14. "" - 4:43
15. "" - 4:01
16. "" - 4:22
17. "" - 4:51
18. "" - 5:52

Disc two

1. "" - 4:52
2. "" - 3:56
3. "" - 3:56
4. "" - 4:13
5. "" - 5:32
6. "" - 5:04
7. "" - 4:59
8. "" (Inoue, Kōji Tamaki
   Koji Tamaki
   is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and actor. He has been well known as a frontman of the band Anzen Chitai that debuted in 1982 and enjoyed their successful career particularly during the 1980s....
   
   ) - 5:25
9. "" (Inoue, Tamaki) (recorded with Anzen Chitai
   Anzen Chitai
   is a Japanese rock band, formed in 1973 by five musicians in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. It debuted in 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. They became one of Japan's most successful rock bands in the 1980s....
   
   ) - 3:53
10. "Teenager" (Inoue, Hirai) - 4:34
11. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) - 2:58
12. "" - 4:55
13. "" (Inoue, Kiyoshiro Imawano
    Kiyoshiro Imawano
    , born , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed "Japan's King of Rock". He formed and led an influential rock band RC Succession....
    
    ) - 4:21
14. "Just Fit" - 4:25
15. "" - 4:59
16. "" - 4:07
17. "" - 5:38

Bonus disc for 2003 limited edition

1. "" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
2. ""　(Jose Manzo Perroni, Seiji Nakazawa) - 3:07
3. "" (Koichi Sugiyama
   Koichi Sugiyama
   is a Japanese music composer, council member of JASRAC , and honorary chairman of the Japanese Backgammon Society...
   
   , Fusako Sugawara, Rei Nakanishi) - 4:11
4. "" [Live version recorded at the Pacifico Yokohama on December 23, 2002, previously unreleased] - 3:31
5. "" - 4:12
6. "Mis Cast" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:10
7. "L-O-V-E" [Live version recorded at the Fukuoka Convention Center on January 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 2:58
8. "Miss Contest" [Live version recorded at the Bluenote Tokyo on January 6, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:38
9. "" [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 5:07
10. "" (Inoue, Katz Hoshi) [Live version recorded at the Tokyo International Forum on March 21, 2003, previously unreleased] - 4:32

Chart positions

Year	Album	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1999–2000	Golden Best	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	1	54	1,418,000+
2003	Golden Best Super	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 300)	28	12	31,000

Certification

Country	Organization	Level	Shipments
Japan	RIAJ	8× Platinum	2 million+

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Notes
Japan	July 28, 1999	For Life Records	CD	FLCF-3761
	June 25, 2003	For Life Music Entertainment		FLCF-3965	Expanded edition with bonus disc, limited release