Editing Hidden Treasures (EP) (section)

==Release and reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AM"/>
|rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
|rev2Score = {{Rating|1.5|4}}<ref name="Chicago">{{cite news|last=Golemis|first=Dean|date=November 9, 1995|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/11/09/megadethhidden-treasures-capitol-star-12this-campy-collection/|title=Megadeth: Hidden Treasures (Capitol)|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev3score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=269}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="New RS">{{cite book|last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=Hoard|first2=Christian David|title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|year=2004|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/534 534]}}</ref> 
}}

While initially released in Europe as a bonus disc for a special edition of ''[[Youthanasia]]'', ''Hidden Treasures'' was released as a stand-alone EP in Japan and the US on July 18, 1995.<ref name="AM"/><ref name=MegadethDiscography>{{cite web|title=Megadeth Discography – Hidden Treasures|url=http://www.megadeth.com/release/hidden-treasures|publisher=Megadeth.com|access-date=October 30, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101140456/http://www.megadeth.com/release/hidden-treasures|archive-date=November 1, 2013}}</ref> It debuted at number 90 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart and sold 13,000 copies in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ4EAAAAMBAJ&q=Countdown+to+Extinction+first+week+sales&pg=PA96|access-date=October 30, 2013|last=Mayfield|first=Geoff|title=Between the Bullets|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=96|date=July 5, 1997}}</ref> By December 2005, ''Hidden Treasures'' sold 286,000 copies in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=Megadeth: Album Sales Update|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeth-album-sales-update/|work=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=December 16, 2005|access-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref> It also appeared on album chart in the UK, but did not achieve notable success.<ref name=UKChart/> The album has gone out of print in the US, but was reissued in 2007 for the Japanese and European markets.<ref name=MegadethDiscography/>

The EP has received generally mediocre reaction from critics. ''[[AllMusic]]'''s [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] wrote that the EP does not have many "first-rate songs" and that only "[[99 Ways to Die (song)|99 Ways to Die]]" made an impression.<ref name="AM"/> The ''Rolling Stone Album Guide'' was dismissive of the EP; the staff reviewer commented that the album is worth hearing only for "99 Ways to Die".<ref name="New RS"/> Dean Golemis of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' wrote that the album is "typical Megadeth" featuring "fast-forward riffing" and "snooty snarling" vocals.<ref name="Chicago"/> Carlos Ramirez from ''[[Noisecreep]]'' felt that the album contains many underrated songs that "also deserve their time in the spotlight" and highlighted the dueling guitar leads by Mustaine and Friedman featured in "Go to Hell".<ref name="Noisecreep">{{cite web|first=Carlos|last=Ramirez|title=10 Most Underrated Megadeth Songs|url=http://noisecreep.com/most-underrated-megadeth-songs/|website=[[Noisecreep]]|access-date=October 27, 2013}}</ref> Despite the negative reviews, material featured on the EP has been credited with helping expand the group's [[MTV]] audience in the early 1990s.{{sfn|Gulla|2006|p=214}}