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April 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Britney Oops 25

With an expansion of the Backstreet Boys' Millennium as one of the few items on their release schedule, Legacy Recordings will go a few steps this further, celebrating the turn of the millennium with a new compilation and a reissue of one of the biggest solo artists of that time. On May 16, Legacy will release an expanded vinyl and digital edition of Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again for its 25th anniversary. A year before, Spears had ascended to pop's A-list with her debut ...Baby One

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore, Mariah Carey, Outkast, Pink, Santana, TLC, Toni Braxton, Wheatus, Whitney Houston

April 14, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Emancipation of Mimi 20

Two decades ago, Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi was a dramatic comeback for the pop queen. This year, it's due for a comeback of its own with a heavy-duty deluxe edition. Available May 30, The Emancipation of Mimi (20th Anniversary Edition) arrives from UMe on five LPs offering a host of bonus material, including seven previously unreleased tracks and many more classic remixes. Billed as being "personally compiled" by Carey herself, the 45-track set comes with a 28-page booklet and a

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

November 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas 30 packshot

With the run-up to Christmas approaching full speed, the holiday's musical queen is looking to take back her crown. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carey's Merry Christmas and its unforgettable, cross-generational hit single "All I Want for Christmas is You," the Elusive Chanteuse will deliver an expanded version of the album on vinyl, featuring material from its most recent reissue and a 24-page booklet in a hardbound package with some holiday surprises. To boost "All I Want for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

One of this year's documentary darlings at the Sundance Film Festival, a look at the life and career of Luther Vandross, makes its theatrical debut in select cities this week. Ahead of its wider, planned streaming release in 2025, Legacy Recordings will issue a new double-disc anthology of his work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits, available December 13, offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the cream of Vandross' solo career. In addition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey

June 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Pop goddesses, rock gods, one classic crooner and remixes aplenty are what you'll find this week! Mariah Carey, Rainbow (25th Anniversary Expanded Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The Elusive Chanteuse's seventh album built upon its 1997 predecessor Butterfly, integrating hip-hop production flourishes into her R&B/adult

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Def Leppard, INXS, John Williams, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Pat Boone, The Rascals, U2

May 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week has another rare track by Prince, promo for the new Beach Boys documentary, a powerful new remix by a legendary diva and more! Prince, "Silver Tongue" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) A third Musicology-era rarity has landed digitally, following "United States of Division" and "Magnificent." "Silver Tongue" was a "virtual B-side" to

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Dick Hyman, INXS, Mariah Carey, Marian McPartland, Peggy Lee, Prince, The Beach Boys

February 2, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Andy Williams When You Fall in Love

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the late, great Andy Williams.  Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Poetry, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Average White Band, Julie Andrews, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wings

September 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Mariah Music Box 30

The third time was the charm when Mariah Carey released Music Box three decades ago. The elusive chanteuse last week announced plans to expand her third album with a wealth of rare and unreleased bonus material. Released as a 3CD or 4LP set on February 24, 2024 but available digitally now, the new expansion of Music Box features the original 10-track album expanded with international bonus track "Everything Fades Away"; a disc of studio material, including the unheard teaser "Workin' Hard,"

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

February 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today sees digital expansions from Jan Berry, Brian McKnight and Weezer; new songs from The Guess Who and a member of Jellyfish - plus a great way to provide aid in the face of the week's biggest natural disaster. Brian McKnight, Anytime (Deluxe Edition) (Motown/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Soulful

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Brian McKnight, Jan and Dean, Jellyfish, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Nat King Cole, The Guess Who, Weezer

September 24, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover - from quarter-century old R&B classics, a Fleetwood Mac heroine covering Buffalo Springfield, and an actor who sang enough to make you go a little mad. Stevie Nicks, For What It's Worth (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The celebrated singer has recently been covering this Buffalo Springfield classic on her

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Comedy, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Anthony Perkins, Mariah Carey, Queens of the Stone Age, Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs, Stevie Nicks, Tears for Fears, Usher

February 22, 2022 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

Lou Reed Im So Free

Legacy Recordings has announced its release slate for Record Store Day 2022, with titles both coming for the primary RSD event on Saturday, April 23 and the additional RSD Drop scheduled for Saturday, June 18.    Legacy's lineup draws on an array of heavy hitters, some of whom have featured in previous RSD releases, including Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Prince, Santana, Mariah Carey, Pearl Jam, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Patti Smith, and more. Below, you'll find Legacy's full list of releases,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Alice in Chains, Cypress Hill, Future, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Pearl Jam, Prince, Record Store Day, Santana, Sara Bareilles

October 2, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Herb Alpert Is

 Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert Is... (Herb Alpert Presents) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Herb Alpert Is...a trumpeter, songwriter, producer, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist.  The list goes on.  To tie in with director John Scheinfeld's documentary of that name premiering this fall, Alpert's own Herb Alpert Presents label is releasing a 3-CD or 5-LP deluxe box set tracing his

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 45 Grave, Ace of Cups, Adam Lambert, Bon Jovi, Charles Bernstein, Coven, Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Swados, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, Groovie Goolies, Herb Alpert, Mariah Carey, New Order, Nickelback, Queen, Rascal Flatts, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Shania Twain, The Munsters, Zacherle

September 10, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mariah Rarities

Mariah Carey's continuing her #MC30 campaign in a big way with a new collection of rare and unreleased studio and live material, as well as vinyl reissues of her whole catalogue. The Rarities presents the flipside of the pop idol's incredible blockbuster career (one that's produced an impressive 19 chart-topping singles in the U.S. - just one less than The Beatles) through B-sides and outtakes as well as the premiere audio release of a full live set from 1996. Lead single "Saves The Day," a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

July 31, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

The Live Debut 1990

She famously doesn't count birthdays, but Mariah Carey is taking 2020 to commemorate the birth of her music career with some rare and unreleased material. Earlier this month, the pop icon announced #MC30, a celebration throwing all the way back to her self-titled debut, issued three decades ago this past June. The campaign promises weekly "digital EPs, remixes, bonus cuts, rare tracks, acapella moments and mind-blowing live performances" - and five releases have occurred so far. The first,

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Categories: News Formats: Books, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

December 19, 2019 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas Deluxe

Sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 this week is a song which took a quarter-century to reach that peak: Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." The song achieved a couple of milestones with that ranking: it now holds the record for the longest time between a song's debut and its reaching the top of the charts, and it's the first Christmas song to reach the peak in 60 years since The Chipmunks did it in 1959. Before this new milestone for Carey's tune, the song and the album of its

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Holiday, Pop Tags: Mariah Carey

November 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas Deluxe

One of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time is getting the deluxe treatment today with Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings' 2-CD reissue of Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas in time for its 25th anniversary. Carey's fourth album and first holiday effort (the sequel Merry Christmas II You arrived in 2010) teamed the chanteuse with producer-arranger Walter Afanasieff (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Johnny Mathis), among others, on a sparkling set of original songs and holiday classics.

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

November 1, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Bootleg 15

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan featuring Johnny Cash, Travelin' Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 (Columbia/Legacy) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings chronicle Dylan's 1967-1969 recordings in Music City - including those made with a very special guest - on the latest volume of the artist's long-running Bootleg Series. Bob Dylan (featuring Johnny Cash) -

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Booker T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Garth Brooks, Jeff Lynne's ELO, Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey, Nat King Cole, R.E.M., The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Uncle Walt's Band, Van Halen

May 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Yes Progeny

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a number of rock legends! Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This whopping 14-CD box captures seven complete concerts from Yes circa 1972 - the same tour leading up to the performances preserved on Yessongs.  For those who don't need 14 discs, 2-CD and 3-LP Highlights distillations are also available (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) ! Jeff Beck, Live+ (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Jeff Beck, Mariah Carey, Miles Davis, Rare Earth, The Knack, Thelonious Monk, Yes

April 29, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Mariah Infinity

Monday marked the release of the new Mariah Carey single, "Infinity."  This latest single is the sole new recording from Carey's forthcoming greatest hits collection #1 to Infinity which is hitting stores in a couple of weeks on May 18.  The new compilation is the singer's first project since returning to her original label home of Sony after having spent most of the 2000s on Island Records and Def Jam Records. Since releasing her self-titled debut album on Columbia in 1990, Mariah Carey has

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Mariah Carey

May 8, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

but seriously

  Barenaked Ladies, Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before! (Rhino) A single-disc compilation of mostly unreleased odds and ends from the BNL catalogue. Bill Withers, Just as I Am: 40th Anniversary Edition (Big Break) A remaster of Withers' breakthrough 1971 album, featuring the immortal "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Grandma's Hands." Phil Collins, ...But Seriously (Audio Fidelity) Collins' 1989 solo album, featuring hits "Another Day in Paradise" and "Something Happened on the Way to

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Categories: News Tags: Liza Minnelli, Mariah Carey, My Bloody Valentine, Phil Collins, Phil Spector

April 17, 2012 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

whos zoomin who

Janis Joplin, The Pearl Sessions (Columbia/Legacy) Essentially a new double-disc deluxe edition of Joplin's final album, with mono single mixes and a heap of mostly unreleased session outtakes as bonus tracks. Little Richard, 

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Marley, Little Richard, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey

April 4, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

essential mariah uk

There's something familiar about many of Legacy's new entries in their ongoing The Essential series hitting stores in April and May. Of the four double-disc compilations - one for prog-rock masters Blue Öyster Cult, one apiece for country stars Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn and one for pop chanteuse Mariah Carey - three have already been reissued under different names. The country ones are repackages of each performer's latest hits set (Jackson's 2010 contract-closing 34 Number One Hits

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June 8, 2010 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Prince's influence has been discussed far and wide, from fashion to music videos to the actual, Hendrixian quality of his guitar playing. But it's always unusual when the mercurial purple genius decides to directly contribute to another artist's canon, particularly since one really never knows where he's going to end up next. What follows is a chronological list of ten of Prince's most interesting "guest appearances." Half of them are actual guest appearances, the other half either songs he

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Categories: News Tags: Madonna, Mariah Carey, Prince Week, The Art of Noise, The Bangles

March 2, 2010 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

It greatly pleases me that The Second Disc has attracted an interested readership. It's a pleasure that there are many out there interested in how the industry behaves and evolves. And as a writer and enthusiast with such devotion to the niche, it's just exciting to connect with like-minded individuals. To that end, I pose something of a catalogue-oriented challenge to you. In all my years collecting and listening to pop music, I have only come across the following track once. The complete lack

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Categories: News Tags: Mariah Carey, Open Forum, Phil Collins

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