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A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. Spoken word is a form of literary Art or artistic performance in which Lyrics, Poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist A live album &ndash commonly contrasted with a Studio album &ndash is a recording consisting of material (usually music recorded during stage performances A demo version or demo of a song (shortened from the word "demonstration" is one recorded for reference rather than for release An outtake is a portion of a work (usually a Film or Music Recording) that is removed in the Editing process and not included in the work's final ) The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, 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 album may employ tradition product bundling strategies. Product bundling is a Marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product

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Common types

Some common types of compilation are

Budget cover albums

A budget cover album is an album of cheap, often poorly made covers of popular songs. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more The budget albums had their heyday in the 1970s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. One of the most famous cover labels was Embassy, operated by Woolworths. The F W Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores To distinguish between the original artists and the covers, the albums often featured small print next to the name of the original artists eg. as made famous by. Some cover album series are still going, eg. Kidz Bop, but many are now so-called "novelty records". Kidz Bop is the name of a series of Popular music albums recorded for Children, sold by Razor & Tie Direct L A novelty song is a silly or nonsensical Song, performed principally for its comical effect.

Current, 1990s-2000s, budget "artists" include The Countdown Singers, The Hit Crew and Stars at Studio 99. The Countdown Singers is a name given to Madacy Entertainment's revolving group of Studio musicians, used since 1994. Although these groups are listed on multiple albums they are merely monikers for any number of studio musicians. Although the albums are budget covers, they are titled as tributes, but are not akin to tribute albums to name artists with covers by other name artists. The albums are sold at discount prices, mainly in department stores and often end up at a dollar store, In their defense, the albums are of higher sonic quality than many budget pre-fame recordings by name artists. The Countdown Singers have released over 70 albums, most of them panned by websites like All Music Guide. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide.

A famous series of cover albums in the UK was the Top of the Pops series, which were released between 1968 and 1985. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Top of the Pops is the name of a series of records issued by Pickwick Records on their Hallmark label which contain anonymous cover versions of hit singles The pin-up girl covers of these albums now have a cult following of their own. A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as Pop culture.

Famous compilation series

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Famous compilation series (Australia)

Famous compilation series (Japan)

See also

A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track This is a list of Compilation albums featuring recordings entirely or mostly in the Garage rock and Psychedelic rock genres of Rock music. Compilation albums played a particularly vital role in the development of new Punk rock bands since relatively few local bands had a large enough audience to justify Product bundling is a Marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product
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