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Proposed split

This article is structured like an overview of more specific albums (photographs, stamps, etc.) The musical album is certainly a notable subject on its own, and there is certainly enough information to supply its own article. However, since the studio album was merged into this article, I think that relocating it into a section of a more broad article will allow for more detail on that topic, and also give underdeveloped musical album formats (concept, remix, etc.) a page to merge into to make one full article instead of several fragments. WikiRedactor (talk) 18:54, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you say a little more about what you'd like to do with a page on "Musical album"? It seems like some of the main topics are covered in articles like Concept album and Album-oriented rock. groupuscule (talk) 21:53, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Groupuscule: Sorry for the late response! To answer your question, it looks like the current structure for the "Album" article is kind of just a brief summary of several types of albums; I feel like it's unorganized to have such a large topic like musical albums and just have them thrown into a few sections here. If we were to create a "Musical album" page, I was thinking that we can get into more detail than in this page, since it will be focused solely on music, and perhaps fold poorly-sourced/structured articles like "Concept album" into this one. The existing "Album" article may perhaps become a disambiguation of the various types of albums touched on in this page. WikiRedactor (talk) 19:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support, a musical album is a distinct concept from the general concept of album, with a history of its own, and deserves separate discussion. --cyclopia ^speak! 14:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Album is the primary topic for the concept of musical album (no other article title involving "album" comes close to the readership of this one, which is about music/audio albums, and has hundreds of incoming links from articles on music albums); the splits suggested have already taken place: Stamp album, Photograph album, etc, and there is a disamb page in place: Album (disambiguation); as such there is no need for splitting, all that is needed is for this page to be cleaned up. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 12:56, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that all the interwiki links were to articles on music albums. Curious, I looked into the history of the article. It had from inception been about music albums - until this edit in Oct 2012 changed it to being about all forms of albums. It doesn't appear to be a malicious edit, simply a mistaken one, that has taken until now to resolve. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 16:56, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strange redirection

Just wondered why the phrase 'Album Chart' redirects here to a page defining what an album is, when I and presumably others looking for that phrase, are or would be looking for a page about the album chart in whichever country they are in. Maybe instead redirect to a disambiguation page that lists (by country then by different specific charts) any different album charts that we have a page for? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.49.145 (talk) 00:02, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing that up. I've now redirected to Record chart. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:31, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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No Mention of 8-Track Tapes?

The lack of any reference to 8 tracks appears to me to be an oversight. Regardless of their many shortcomings as a medium, they were a popular format for several years. Why the hate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.183.248 (talk) 20:17, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing it up, 8-Track Tapes are now mentioned. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 10:09, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Audiocassettes were into 2000s

not 1990s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.252.90.149 (talk) 03:13, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-recorded cassette tapes.

Pre-recorded cassette tapes were being sold at least in 1973 if not before that! This post states it began in the late 1970's, that's ridiculous. I am pretty sure sales of pre-recorded cassette tapes began in the late 1960's if you check. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 40.136.238.16 (talk) 10:55, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Number of tracks

Although in the article says that, according to the criteria of UK Albums Chart, it must have more than 4 songs, I want to know if it is mandatory for its release that it has a minimum of 10. Thanks.--190.179.187.113 (talk) 15:52, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Matching Folio

Added, as it's a valid album format. Ssredg (talk) 05:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 20 September 2019

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Add {{Fact}} in section "Solo", after the statement "A solo performer working with other members will typically have full creative control of the band, be able to hire and fire accompanists, and get the majority of the proceeds".

Is it true? Have not very often other people some control, or even almost all control? (record producer, record label, music executive and so on). --95.236.136.51 (talk) 07:33, 20 September 2019 (UTC) 95.236.136.51 (talk) 07:33, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done NiciVampireHeart 17:47, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request: Hatnote for redirect

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I've boldly changed the DAB at Music Album to be a redirect to this article, per WP:ONEOTHER and WP:DIFFCAPS: Music album already redirected here. This means we should change the hatnote to something like:

Thanks 94.21.10.204 (talk) 05:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Already done SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 19:24, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Debut album" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Debut album and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 7#Debut album until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 12:37, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Solo albums wrong definition?

do the artists have to do the recording themselves for it to be considered a solo album as stated or can an engineer at the recording studio record the artist? 120.21.82.127 (talk) 07:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

no —Shada Ng (talk | contribs) 12:54, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Baltimore Disaster 25/26 March 2024 107.144.2.22 (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]