20 Golden Greats (also known as Buddy Holly Lives) is a greatest hits album by Buddy Holly & the Crickets first released in the United Kingdom by EMI on February 17, 1978.

[1] The songs on the UK release were licensed to EMI by MCA Records, who released the album in North America.

It was also Buddy Holly's first number 1 album on the chart.

[3] The album was somewhat less successful in the United States peaking at number 55 on the Billboard 200,[4] but ended up crossing over to the Country Albums chart, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1983.

[5] In 2003, it was ranked number 92 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[6] maintaining the ranking in the 2012 update and dropping to number 166 in the 2020 reboot of the list.