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The album appeared on lists of the best albums of 1996 in Kerrang! [10] and Terrorizer. [11] The track "Ænema" won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1998. [12] In 2003, Ænima was ranked the sixth most influential album of all time by Kerrang! [13] Rolling Stone listed the album at No. 18 on its list of The 100 Greatest Metal ...
Pages in category "Heavy metal record labels" The following 179 pages are in this category, out of 179 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Extreme II: Pornograffitti (also known as simply Pornograffitti) is the second studio album by the heavy metal band Extreme, released on August 7, 1990, through A&M Records. [4] The album title is a portmanteau of pornography and graffiti .
The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released.
Two different ways of marking cut-out records on LP jackets. When LPs were the primary medium for the commercial distribution of sound recordings, manufacturers would cut the corner, punch a hole, or add a notch to the spine of the jacket of unsold records returned from retailers; these "cut-outs" might then be re-sold to record retailers or other sales outlets for sale at a discounted price.
[11] [c] Some albums were produced on a $1 million budget by 1981. [10] Accountant John McClain gave an estimated cost of $2.5 million for a Michael Jackson record in 1987. [ 14 ] Nowadays, according to IFPI , production costs for popular albums are "generally budgeted for at least $200,000, and if much studio time is used, costs can soar well ...
Handwritten matrix number on the 1973 vinyl LP album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John Album matrix numbers are often similar to the catalogue number. For example, a record numbered X-1234 may have a matrix number like A–1234 or X–1234–A on side one, and B–1234 or X–1234–B on side two, as shown on the label.
The term is also used to denominate the outermost cardboard covering of a record, i.e. the record jacket or album jacket. The record jacket is extensively used to design and market a recording, as well as to additionally display general information on the record as artist name, titles list, title length etc. if no opening presents a readable label.