Talk:Discography

Misc
is the bibliography really necessary?

I wonder, can we make a category of discography and put everyone's disography in it (such as Kylie Minogue's Discography for a one-point reference?

68.169.113.246 Talk to me, 68.169.113.246 My contributions 16:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree with you. The bibiography is by nature highly selective and would generally be better in the individual discography articles. Only authorative overviews should be listed here imho. --kingboyk 14:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Official release
Is a discography a list of any recorded material or it covers only officialy published/released music on cd's, casettes, vinyl etc? I think its important. Can you count demos that have not been officialy published as belonging to a discography?? Dzole 11:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I have a general question on the time-stamp date when they are available on the original album sleeves. Why may the copyright date stamped on the record sleeve be the year before the album was released? I understand how in the 1970s, release dates for records often changed. Take the music group, Ambrosia. The band release their first album in February of 1975 according to Wikipedia, but the printed copyright date I have on the cover of the album is 1974. I know because I am looking at it!

Bigger groups could be anticipated as to the exact date something would be released and the manufacturer could compensate. But more often the release date and copyright dates are not in synch. Any ideas on ways to get clarification? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beadbud5000 (talk • contribs) 20:56, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Discography
I am having an issue with an agressive editor who keeps removing my work stating so called rules that I can not find. What can I do about this, the person offers no help and just deletes my work. Are B-sides permissible in a discography of singles? The Beatles discography includes them....so do many others. The point of a discography is to include ALL the original recordings of an artist? Dutchdean (talk) 14:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

More sources
I have removed below sources from the main article for the list is growing longer. --George Ho (talk) 04:58, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Andrews, Frank - Columbia 10" records, 1904-30. [London]: City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society, 1985
 * Arnold, Claude Graveley - The Orchestra on Record, 1896-1926: An Encyclopedia of Orchestral Recordings Made by the Acoustical Process, Greenwood Press 1997
 * Barr, Steven C. - The (Almost) Complete 78 r.p.m. Record Dating Guide. Second ed. [Toronto, Ont.]: S.C. Barr, 1980. 51 p. Without ISBN
 * Barr, Steven C. - Canadian and Canadian-U.S. Label Numerical Correlations [of] 78 r.p.m. [disc recordings. Toronto, Ont.: S.C. Barr] 1983. 4 p. ISBN 0-9692697-0-8
 * Brooks, Tim - Little Wonder Records, The New Amberola Phonograph Company 1999
 * Connor, D. Russell and Hicks, Warren W. - BG On The Record; A bio-discography of Benny Goodman, Arlington House 1969
 * Daniels, Bill - Disc Dating Guide, 1940-1949. Oak Lawn Books, Providence, R.I., 1981
 * Dethlefson, Ronald - Edison Blue Amberol Recordings 1912-1914, (2nd Edition) Stationery X-Press 1997
 * Dixon, Robert M.W., John Godrich and Howard W. Rye - Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943, 4th ed., Clarendon Press 1997. N.B.: An informative narrative of blues recording activity is Recording the Blues, by two of these authors, i.e. Dixon and Godrich (London: Studio Vista, 1970, 85 amply ill. p.)
 * Fagan, Ted and Moran, William - The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Records vol. 1, Greenwood Press 1983
 * Fagan, Ted and Moran, William - The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Records vol. 2, Greenwood Press 1986
 * Fancourt, Les and Bob McGrath - The Blues Discography 1943-1970, Eyeball Productions 2006
 * Flower, John - Moonlight Serenade; A bio-discography of the Glenn Miller civilian band, Arlington House 1972
 * Foreman, Lewis - Systematic Discography. London, C. Bingley, 1974. 144 p. N.B. This is an instructional and style manual to aid its user in mastering or improving a researcher's discographical skills. ISBN 0-85157-131-1
 * Guterman, Jimmy, and Owen O'Donnell - The Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time: a Fan's Guide to the Stuff [that] You Love to Hate! in series: Citadel Press Book[s]. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991. N.B.: Annotated discography. ISBN 0-8065-1231-8
 * Harrison, Max, [et al.] - Modern Jazz: the Essential Records, 1945-1970, a Critical Selection. London: Aquarius Books, 1975. 131, [9] p. N.B.: Subtitle combined from t.p. and a portion of the cover subtitle statement. This discography is annotated.
 * Jepsen, Jorgen Grunnet - Jazz Records, 1942-196x, Karl Emil Knudsen 1963-1970
 * Jones, Mark - Bristol Folk: a Discographical History of Bristol folk music in the 1960s and 1970s, Bristol Folk Publications 2009
 * Jones, Mark - The Famous Charisma Discography, The Record Press 2010
 * Jones, Mark - The Saydisc and Village Thing Discography, The Record Press 2010
 * Johnson, Richard J. - Elsie Carlisle, a discography, published privately 1994
 * Kennedy, Ted - Canada Pop Weekly: the Record [according to] "R.P.M." [magazine]. Kelowna, B.C.: Canadian Chart Research, [1992?]. 595 p.
 * Kennedy, Ted - Country Canada: the Record [according to] "R.P.M." [magazine]. Kelowna, B.C.: Canadian Chart Research, [1992?]. 437 oblong p.
 * Kennedy, Ted - Maple Music: the Record [according to] "R.P.M." [magazine]. Kelowna, B.C.: Canadian Chart Research, [1992]. 572, [16] oblong p. N.B.: "'Maple Music' is [primarily]a listing of every song to enter the national top 40 pop record charts in North America with primary analysis on Canadian charts from 'R.P.M.' [magazine] and 'The Record'."
 * Kiner, Larry F. - The Al Jolson Discography, Greenwood Press 1983
 * Koenigsberg, Allen - Edison Cylinder Records 1889-1912, (2nd Edition) APM Press 1987
 * Laird, Ross - Tantalizing Tingles A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934, Greenwood Press 1995
 * Laird, Ross - Moanin'Low; A discography of female popular vocal recordings 1920-1933, Greenwood Press 1996
 * Laird, Ross - Brunswick records: a discography of recordings, 1916-1931, Greenwood Press, 2001.
 * Laird, Ross & Rust, Brian - Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934. By Ross Laird and Brian Rust. Praeger, 2004
 * Legere, Bill - Record Collectors Guide of Country LPs. Limited ed. Mississauga, Ont.: W.J. Legere, 1977. 269, 25, 29, 2 p., perforated and looseleaf. Without ISBN
 * Legere, Bill - E[lectrical] T[anscription]s: Transcription Library of Bill Legere. Mississauga, Ont.: B. Legere, [1977]. 3 vols., each of which is perforated and looseleaf. N.B.: Vol. 1-2, Country Artists -- vol. 2, Pop Artists. Without ISBN
 * Lyttle, Brendan - A Chartology of Canadian Popular Music, Part Two, 1977 to 1980. Record Research Services, Calgary, [1980?]
 * Millar, Jack - Discography of Billie Holiday to 1999, Fine and Mellow published 1998 by The Billie Holiday Publishers
 * Moses, Julian Morton - American Celebrity Recordings 1900-1925, Monarch Record Enterprises, 1993
 * Ruppli, Michel - Atlantic Records, Greenwood Press 1979
 * Ruppli, Michel - The Savoy Labels, Greenwood Press 1980
 * Ruppli, Michel & Porter, Bob - The Prestige Label, Greenwood Press 1980
 * Ruppli, Michel - The Chess Labels, Greenwood Press 1983
 * Ruppli, Michel - The King Labels, Greenwood Press 1985
 * Ruppli, Michel - The Clef/Verve Labels, Greenwood Press 1986
 * Ruppli, Michel - The Aladdin/Imperial Labels, Greenwood Press 1991
 * Ruppli, Michel & Novitsky, Ed - The Mercury Labels, Greenwood Press 1993
 * Ruppli, Michel - The Decca Labels, Greenwood Press 1996
 * Ruppli, Michel & Novitsky, Ed - The MGM Labels, Greenwood Press 1998
 * Ruppli, Michel, Daniels, Bill & Novitsky, Ed - The Capitol Label Discography, Names & Numbers, 2007
 * Russell, Tony - Country Music Records; A discography, 1921-1942, Oxford University Press, 2004
 * Rust, Brian - The Victor Master Book Vol. 2, published by the author, 1969
 * Rust, Brian - The American Dance Band Discography, Arlington House 1975
 * Rust, Brian - London Musical Shows On Record 1897 - 1976, General Gramophone Publications 1977
 * Rust, Brian - British Music Hall On Record, General Gramophone Publications 1979
 * Rust, Brian and Forbes, Sandy - British Dance Bands On Record 1911 to 1945, General Gramophone Publications 1987
 * Rust, Brian and Debus, Allen G. - The Complete Entertainment Discography from 1897 to 1942, (2nd Edition) Da Capo Press 1989
 * Rust, Brian & Brooks, Tim - The Columbia Master Book Discography, Greenwood Press, 1999.
 * Rust, Brian - Jazz and Ragtime Records (1897 - 1942), (6th Edition) Mainspring Press 2003
 * Smith, Russell & Burgis, Peter - Peter Dawson; The world's most popular baritone (with complete song title discography), Currency Press 2001
 * Sutton, Allan - Cakewalks, Rags and Novelties; The International Ragtime Discography (1894 - 1930), Mainspring Press 2004
 * Sutton, Allan - Cakewalks, Rags and Novelties; The International Ragtime Discography (1894 - 1930), Mainspring Press 2004

Videography
The final paragraph of the first section has this: "A compilation of an artist's music videos or video releases can be referred to as a "videography."   The source cited only refers to the rest of the paragraph, which is about rollography.

Videography does not mean a compilation. It's the actual process of capturing or photographing video, and that's confirmed not only by all online references to the word, but also by WP Videography.

I've therefore removed the above sentence.Twistlethrop (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Credible Info
Can anyone provide me with an article from any credible source that show's Beyoncé's record sales between 200-250 million records? Some of her stats has been updated by the RIAA and that moved her total certified sales from 112 million to 216 million on the main Wiki page. We need the source for her sales to be updated there from 120 million. 190.80.12.213 (talk) 17:16, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Discography Links to Outside Wikipedia
Should we have links to outside Wikipedia in discography lists? I'm not talking about outside reference lists, I'm talking about the Discography itself where some artist links go to Wikipedia album pages and some (in the same list) go to outside sites (with advertisements). Shouldn't all of these links go to bona fide Wikipedia pages, rather than to uncontrolled outside sites? PersonPlaceOrThing (talk) 04:43, 3 May 2023 (UTC)