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Time-Life continued to offer "Classic Rock" through the early-2000s (decade), after which it was replaced by other series. In 1999, Time-Life issued a "budget" box set, "Classic '60s: Greatest Hits", containing three CDs or cassettes of 12 songs each, for retail sale.
Starting in 1967, Time-Life combined its book offerings with music collections (two to five records) and packaged them as a sturdy box set. When record labels were no longer producing vinyl albums in 1990, Time-Life transitioned to CD. In the mid-1990s, Time-Life acquired Heartland Music, with the Heartland Music label then appearing as a brand.
Prior to Rhino and Legacy, companies such as Time-Life Records and Reader's Digest also issued box sets. In rare cases, box sets contain all original material, such as the 11-disc set Blue Guitars by Chris Rea , In Search of The , a 13-disc set by Buckethead , or Klaus Schulze 's 10-disc set Contemporary Works I .
For "The Rock'n'Roll Era," four such box sets were issued: The Rock n' Roll Era: Greatest Hits (two volumes), The Rock n' Roll Era - One Hit Wonders of the '50s & '60s, and The Rock n' Roll Era - Senior Prom: Greatest Hits; additionally, there was a Christmas three-CD/cassette box set, called The Rock n' Roll Era Christmas Hits.
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
Singers and Songwriters was a 19-volume album series issued by Time-Life in the US, during the early 2000s, spotlighting songs from the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. . There was an identically-named 29 volume series available in the UK and Europe, with different track listings and different, but similar artwo
Upon release, the box set reached number 151 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the U.S., during a chart stay of four weeks, but failed to reach the UK Albums Chart. [3] [9] A single disc selection from the box set, titled 20 Essential Tracks from the Boxed Set: 1965–1990, was also released in January 1992. [10]
Country USA was a 23-volume series issued by Time-Life Music during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1950s through early 1970s.. Each volume in the series chronicled a specific year in country music, from 1950 through 1972, and was issued on a double-length compact disc or cassette, or two vinyl albums.