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  2. Deletion (music industry) - Wikipedia

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    Deletion is a music industry term referring to the removal of a record or records from a label's official catalog, so that it is out of print. This is usually done when a title becomes unprofitable to manufacture, but it may also occur at a record artist's request. [1]

  3. Residual media - Wikipedia

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    The vinyl revival – Since 2006, sales of vinyl records, a form of residual media, have been rising while the sales of CDs, new media, have been dropping. In 2012, vinyl sales in the United States went up 17.7%, while CD sales dropped 13.5%; in the United Kingdom vinyl sales jumped 15.3%, while CD sales dropped 20%. [3]

  4. A-side and B-side - Wikipedia

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    The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record company intends to be the initial focus of promotional efforts and radio airplay, with the aim of it becoming a hit record. The B-side (or "flip-side") is a secondary recording that typically receives less attention, although some B-sides have been as successful as, or ...

  5. Reissue - Wikipedia

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    Recordings originally released in an audio format that has become technologically or commercially obsolete are reissued in new formats. For example, thousands of original vinyl albums have been reissued on CDs since introduction of that format in the early 1980s.

  6. Album era - Wikipedia

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    The classic album era begins around this time and it canonizes music in a very different way than when you hear a single. And that's a powerful reason why the music remains so resonant, because the album is a like a novel set to music. It's the form we share with our children and the form we teach and the form we collect. —

  7. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    Enhanced Music CD, also known as CD Extra or CD Plus, is a format that combines audio tracks and data tracks on the same disc by putting audio tracks in a first session and data in a second session. It was developed by Philips and Sony, and it is defined in the Blue Book.

  8. Album - Wikipedia

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    Material (music or sounds) is stored on an album in sections termed tracks. A music track (often simply referred to as a track) is an individual song or instrumental recording. The term is particularly associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks; the term is also used for other formats such as EPs and singles

  9. CD-R - Wikipedia

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    The two types of discs are functionally and physically identical other than this, and computer CD burners can record data and/or music to either. [4] New music CD-Rs are still being manufactured as of the late 2010s, although demand for them has declined as CD-based music recorders have been supplanted by other devices incorporating the same or ...