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.

Passenger (disambiguation)

A passenger is a passive traveler in a vehicle.

Passenger(s) or The Passenger(s) may also refer to:

Animals

  • The Passenger (moth)
  • Literature

  • Passenger (Zofia Posmysz novel), by Zofia Posmysz, based on 1959 radio play; basis for the 1963 film and the 1968 opera
  • "Passengers" (short story) (1968), by Robert Silverberg
  • "The Passenger" (short story), 1927 story by Vladimir Nabokov in the collection Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
  • The Passenger, 2006 novel by Chris Petit
  • "The Passenger", unpublished novel by Cormac McCarthy
  • "The Passenger", 2012 horror story by Arinn Dembo
  • Computing

  • Phusion Passenger, module for the Apache HTTP Server and nginx for deployment of Ruby applications
  • Film, TV and Radio

    Film

  • Passenger (1963 film), a drama by Andrzej Munk
  • Passenger (2009 film), a Malayalam thriller by Ranjit Shankar
  • Passengers (2008 film), a 2008 thriller by Rodrigo Garcia
  • Passengers (2016 film), a 2016 film
  • The Passenger (1975 film), a drama by Michelangelo Antonioni
  • The Passenger (2005 film), by François Rotger
  • The Passenger (opera)

    The Passenger (Russian: Passazhirka) is an opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to a libretto by Alexander Medvedev.

    The libretto is based on the Polish radio play Pasażerka z kabiny 45 (Пассажирка из каюты 45, Passenger from Cabin Number 45) (1959) by concentration camp survivor Zofia Posmysz. Zofia Posmysz's play was rewritten into a novel Pasażerka in 1962. She also worked with Andrzej Munk on the screenplay of his posthumously finished film Pasażerka (1963). The original libretto by Alexander Medvedev is in Russian. The worldwide première in 2010 featured a reworked libretto in German, English, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, and Czech.

    Performance history

    Originally scheduled to be performed at the Bolshoi in 1968, the opera was not premièred, and then only in a concert version, until 2006 in Moscow. The full staged première was in 2010 at the Bregenzer Festspiele, directed by David Pountney, with a set design by Johan Engels. The performance was videoed and released on Blu-ray. The same production was presented in Warsaw by Polish National Opera in 2010 and received its UK première on the 19th of September 2011 at the English National Opera (broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on the 15th of October). In 2013, it was presented by Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.The Passenger received its American premiere on January 18, 2014 at Houston Grand Opera. The opera has also premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and in Frankfurt (Germany), both in early 2015.

    The Passenger (2005 film)

    The Passenger is a film written and directed by François Rotger. It was produced in France, Canada, and Japan; and has dialogue in French, Japanese and English.

    It was nominated in the 2005 edition of the Locarno International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, and Angers's Premiers Plans European Film Festival.

    From his early work, 74km avec elle (8 min, France, 35mm color) and Jan (21 min, France, HDcam color) author/director François Rotger explores the themes of deception and betrayal within the family circle, often leading to sudden and extreme violence.

    Synopsis

    Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.

    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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