In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued Midnight Love, which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing".

Since his death in 1984, four albums have been released posthumously, along with re-issues of some of Gaye's landmark works.

Gaye recorded sixty seven charted singles on the Billboard charts, with forty-one reaching the top forty, eighteen reaching the top ten and three peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

There has been over 300 official and unofficial compilation albums released across the world for Marvin Gaye.

[26] Below is a selected discography of compilation albums with chart history.