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The White Stripes Greatest Hits

2020 greatest hits album by the White Stripes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
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The White Stripes Greatest Hits is a greatest hits compilation album by the American rock duo the White Stripes. released in America by Third Man and Columbia Records on December 4, 2020, and internationally on February 26, 2021. It contains a selection of songs from the band's six studio albums and the standalone singles "Let's Shake Hands" and "Jolene".

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The public source identifies “The White Stripes Greatest Hits” as 2020 greatest hits album by the White Stripes. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around White, Stripes and Greatest.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with White, Stripes and Greatest providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “The White Stripes Greatest Hits” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.