A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes.) The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter. When the tracks are all essentially by the same recording artist, a compilation album is often referred to as a retrospective album. Compilation albums may employ traditional product bundling strategies.

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Common types [link]

Common types of compilation include:

  • Single-artist "greatest hits", "best of", or "singles collection" LPs, gathering together an artist's best-known songs. If the artist or group continues to record, compilers commonly include one or more previously unreleased tracks as an incentive for fans to buy the album, even if they already have the other material on the compilation.
  • Other single-artist compilations, such as rarities or B-side collections, albums compiled from radio sessions, songs performed by an artist exclusively for a film soundtrack or collections that combine multiple releases, such as LPs and EPs together on one or more compact discs. Such compilations generally target existing fans of the artist and have little mainstream appeal, though postmortem compilations of unreleased materials from recently deceased artists have significant popularity[citation needed].
  • Box sets, elaborate multi-disc collections often covering the entire breadth of an artist's career or the full sweep of an entire record label or genre. Many anthologies are released in this format.
  • Various artist themed compilations, e.g. love songs, Christmas songs, songs featuring a particular instrument (such as saxophone or piano), and countless other variations.
  • Various artist genre compilations, e.g. jazz, synthpop, rock, etc. These may be from the same time period (Year, decade or era, for example), or may incorporate a common theme, as a soundtrack exemplifies well.
  • Various artist hit compilations. This has been a very successful part of the album market since the early 1970s. Recent hit singles are gathered together in one place. In the 1970s, these were often single vinyl LPs with 10 to 12 tracks or more. In the 1980s, a double album with 6 or 8 tracks on each side became the norm. Now that CDs are the dominant format, these compilations are usually released on one, two, or three CDs.
  • Promotional compilations or Samplers. These are creative, successful forms of promotion for artists and/or record labels to promote their music. Generally, these types of releases are free or cost very little for the consumer or end listener. Elektra Records released the first sampler albums: in the 1950s.
  • Private label promotional compilations. Promotional compilation CDs can be private labeled for products, retail outlets, or commercial organizations or non-profit organizations. Artists and labels like to co-brand themselves with well-known brands for marketing purposes, and transversely well-known brands like to co-brand themselves with artists.
  • Business-to-business promotional compilations. Other types of promotional compilations are used within the music industry in a business-to-business capacity to promote artists to media concerns (radio stations, music supervisors for TV, film or video games for synchronization)
  • Composer/producer albums. Many hip hop and reggaeton producers will release a compilation album, which feature various artists. Every track on the album will be composed by the same producer.

Charts [link]

In the United Kingdom, The Official Charts Company compiles a weekly compilation albums chart, limited to Various Artists compilations and soundtrack compilations.[1]

Famous compilation series [link]

United States and United Kingdom [link]

1960s–1970s [link]

1980s [link]

1990s [link]

2000s [link]

Australia [link]

Japan [link]

Asia [link]

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ "UK Top 40 Compilation Albums", BBC, retrieved 2012-04-01

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MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB. However, MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata storehouse to become a structured open online database for music.

MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. As of 25 October 2015, MusicBrainz contained information about roughly one million artists, 1.5 million releases, and 15 million recordings.

End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC.

Remember Me

Remember Me may refer to:

Albums

  • Remember Me (Frank Strozier album), a 1976 Frank Strozier album
  • Remember Me (Mac Dre album), a 2002 Mac Dre album
  • Remember Me (Kokia album), a 2003 Kokia album
  • Remember Me (Sage the Gemini album), a 2014 Sage the Gemini album
  • Remember Me (EP), a 2003 EP by British Sea Power
  • Remember Me, a 1992 compilation of previously unreleased Otis Redding recordings (see Otis Redding discography)
  • Literature

  • Remember Me, a 1976 novel by Fay Weldon
  • Remember Me (book series), a 1989–1995 book series written by Christopher Pike
  • Remember Me (Mary Higgins Clark novel), a 1994 suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Remember Me, a 2003 novel by Lesley Pearse, based on the true story of Mary Bryant
  • "Remember Me", a 2003 short story by Nancy Farmer
  • Remember Me? (novel), a 2008 novel by Sophie Kinsella
  • Remember Me..., the fourth novel in Melvyn Bragg's The Soldier Returns sequence
  • "Remember Me", the original title of a verse by David Harkins better known by its opening line "You can shed tears that she is gone"
  • Remember Me (1979 film)

    Remember Me is a 1979 American short documentary film produced by Dick Young. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

    References

    External links

  • Remember Me at the Internet Movie Database

  • Remember Me (Journey song)

    Remember Me is a 1998 song by Journey. The song was originally written and performed as part of the soundtrack for Armageddon. It was the first song that Steve Augeri performed as the new lead singer for the band.

    Notes

    References

    External links

  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Say You'll Be There

    by: Various Artists

    Say you'll be there
    I'm giving you everything all that joy
    can bring this I swear
    Last time that we had this conversation
    I decided we should be friends
    Yeah,
    but now we're going round in circles,
    tell me will this deja vu never end? Oh
    Now you tell me that you've fallen in love,
    well I never ever thought that would be
    This time you gotta take it easy
    throwing far too much emotions at me
    But any fool can see they're falling,
    I gotta make you understand
    I'm giving you everything all that joy can bring this I swear
    (I give you everything)
    And all that I want from you is a promise you will be there
    Say you will be there (Say you will be there)
    Won't you sing it with me
    If you, put two and two together
    you will see what our friendship is for (Oh)
    If you can't work this equation then
    I guess I'll have to show you the door
    There is no need to say you love me,
    It would be better left unsaid
    I'm (I'm) giving you everything (I give you everything)
    all that joy can bring this I swear (yes I swear)
    and (and) all that I want from you (all I want from you) is a promise
    (is a promise) you will be there
    Yeah, I want you
    Any fool can see they're falling,
    gotta make you understand
    I'll give you everything on this I swear
    Just promise you'll always be there
    I'm giving you everything (I m giving you everything)
    all that joy (all that joy can bring) can bring this I
    swear (yes I swear)
    and all that I want from you (all that I want from you) is a promise
    (I want you to promise you'll) you
    will be there (always be there)
    I'm giving you everything (I m giving you everything)
    all that joy (all that joy can bring) can bring this I swear (yes I swear)
    and all that I want from you (all that I want from you) is a promise
    (I want you to promise you'll)
    you will be there (always be there)




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