on the 2000 collection, it covers the same territory equally well and equally entertainingly." The Orlando Sentinel wrote that the "double album contains almost all of her hit singles from the past 15 years". Commercial performance Whitney: The Greatest Hits was released on May 16, 2000, to global commercial success. The album entered at No. 5 in the US Billboard 200 Album Chart and at No. 3 in the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart for the week of June 3, 2000 with first week Nielsen SoundScan sales of 158,000 units, her highest solo album debut since Whitney in 1987. Approximately one month later, on June 20, 2000, it was certified 2× platinum in the United States by the RIAA, making the album her eighth consecutive multi-platinum record when including her three soundtrack albums. Internationally the album's performance was even stronger. Whitney: The Greatest Hits entered the UK chart at No. 1, her first No. 1 record there since Whitney, as well as in Ireland. The album also entered in the Top 5 in Germany (#2), The Netherlands (#2), Belgium (#2), Switzerland (#2), Japan (#3), Austria (#3), Canada (#4) and Spain (#4). With consistently high sales across Europe, the album peaked at No. 2 in Billboard's Eurochart and ended 2000 as the No. 9 album in sales across Europe. The album was noteworthy for Arista's extensive use of digital marketing, which was in its infancy at the time. The two-CD set came with a DVD featuring 23 videos, including interviews with Houston and Davis, behind-the-scenes footage of the photo shoot for the album's cover, and a clip of Houston's 1983 TV debut on The Merv Griffin Show. Ken Levy, Senior Vice President of Creative Services for Arista's parent company BMG Entertainment, told Billboard Magazine about the DVD's interactive features: "We think we have the first DVD where the artist comes out and talks to you." As a result of these innovations, the album's DVD was one of the "best-selling full-length DVD titles" in the music business in 2000. Whitney: The Greatest Hits also participated in Project Zeus, a Singapore-based initiative that launched one of the first pilots in secure digital music downloads. Finding a viable business model in digital music was an urgent priority for the industry given the rise of peer-to-peer networks such as Napster, which enabled fans to share music files for free. Yet the album was still seen