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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The Real Thing

The Real Thing or Real Thing(s) may refer to:

Literature

  • The Real Thing (play), a play by Tom Stoppard
  • "The Real Thing" (story), a short story by Henry James
  • The Real Thing, a collection of humorous essays by Kurt Andersen
  • "The Real Thing", a short story by Alison Goodman
  • Music

    Performers

  • The Real Thing (UK band), a UK pop group
  • The Real Thing (Norwegian band), a Norwegian jazz quartet
  • The Real Thing, an American jazz group fronted by Ray Santisi
  • Albums

  • The Real Thing (Angela Winbush album), 1989 studio album
  • The Real Thing (Bo Bice album), or the title song (see below)
  • The Real Thing (Faith No More album), or the title song
  • The Real Thing (Dizzy Gillespie album)
  • The Real Thing (Midnight Oil album), or the title cover version of the Russell Morris song (see below)
  • The Real Thing (PureNRG album), or the title song
  • The Real Thing (Taj Mahal album)
  • The Real Thing (Vanessa Williams album), or the title song (see below)
  • The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981), a video album by Marvin Gaye
  • The Real Thing (UK band)

    The Real Thing are a British soul group formed in the 1970s. In addition to a string of British hits, the band charted internationally with their song "You to Me Are Everything", which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 28 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart and No. 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. By number of sales, they were the most successful black rock/soul act in England during the 1970s. The journalist, author and founder of Mojo, Paul Du Noyer credits them alongside Deaf School with restoring "Liverpool's musical reputation in the 1970s" with their success.

    History

    Begun in 1970 by Chris Amoo, Dave Smith, Kenny Davis and Ray Lake, The Real Thing's live, progressive soul-influenced covers of American hits attracted enough attention for them to secure a recording deal with EMI. The singles they released through EMI in 1972 and 1973 such as "Vicious Circle" were, despite their high quality, not successful sellers (and have not so far been included on any of band's compilation albums). But the band persisted, even after the departure of Kenny Davis. They did appear on Opportunity Knocks (the TV talent show). The turn-around for their career began with their collaboration with David Essex and Pye Records. They toured internationally with Essex, recording with him a number of popular songs, though none were big charters. After Chris Amoo's brother Eddie joined the band, The Real Thing finally found chart success with the catchy pop soul single "You to Me Are Everything", which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 28 on Billboard's "R&B Singles" and No. 64 on Billboard's "Hot 100". Their follow-up, "Can't Get By Without You", did not chart in the US but was still a success in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 2.

    The Real Thing (story)

    "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892 and the following year as the title story in the collection, The Real Thing and Other Stories published by Macmillan. This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the story, the genuine article proves all too useless for his commercial purposes. The story portrays the unfortunate victims of a society in which reality and representation are closely intertwined in ways that make art a difficult project to untangle the two.

    Plot summary

    The narrator, an unnamed illustrator and aspiring painter, hires a faded genteel couple, the Monarchs, as models, after they have lost most of their money and must find some line of work. They are the "real thing" in that they perfectly represent the aristocratic type, but they prove inflexible for the painter's work. He comes to rely much more on two lower-class subjects who are nevertheless more capable, Oronte, an Italian, and Miss Churm, a lower-class Englishwoman.

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    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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