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A collection of songs the artist insists you listen to in order, exactly once.
means A collection of related items — songs, photos, or stamps — bound together as one named work.
from From Latin albus, 'white.' A tabula alba was a blank white board or tablet Romans used for public notices — a clean surface for official lists. The word later meant a blank book for collecting things: autographs, verses, photographs — and eventually, in the 20th century, a set of phonograph records sold together, which is how it landed on your shelf (or your screen) as a 'record album.'
- origin
- Latin for blank white tablet
- vinyl era
- side length capped by groove physics, not art
- streaming twist
- shuffle broke the narrative arc on purpose
- deluxe editions
- exist mainly to reset chart eligibility clocks