noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a photo album (= a book in which you put photos )
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She took every picture of her ex-husband out of the family photo album.
a photograph album (= a book in which you put photographs )
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Mama kept a photograph album full of pictures of her family.
compilation CD/album/tape
debut album/CD/single etc
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Their debut album was recorded in 1991.
live album (= album that was recorded from a live performance )
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We’ll be playing you a track from his new live album .
the album charts (= of CDs that have several songs on them )
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This put Marley into the album charts for the first time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
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As an Eric Clapton fan, I recommend this double album without the slightest hesitation.
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There are certainly far more double albums out there that are worse.
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A double album of greatest hits and misses, which concentrates on their later years.
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A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
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I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album !!
good
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It was just a good album and they played the parts really well.
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The recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for best classical album .
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Thus, the companion record is currently the best goth album on the market.
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This is the best studio album that the original line-up ever produced.
great
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What are the greatest albums of the rock era?
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This groove is played with a swing eighth note feel - great line, great track, great album .
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As it turns out, though, one of the greatest albums in his catalog has only just been released commercially.
late
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Her latest album is hugely successful in the U.S. and here, yet you never see her on the celebrity circuit.
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Most rock acts tour in order to sell their latest album , and tailor their live show accordingly.
live
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He recently released a live acoustic album on the Plump label.
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The last word in live hard rock albums .
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They took stock with a live album .
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But the rest of the album , unlike other live albums, was truly live.
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He went on to record a live album in 1966 with the blues legend Jimmy Witherspoon.
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The group hope to release both a live and studio album shortly.
new
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While they were watching their single, another machine was knocking out Paul McCartney's new album at one every 2 seconds.
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The new Beatles album brings in an estimated $ 24 million in its first week.
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Five years later, the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew.
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He taps that skill on his new album , which is the first official jazz record of his career.
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She is guaranteed a £3 million advance and 42 percent royalty on new albums .
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Incidentally, Larry Klein is supposed to have produced the new Shawn Colvin album , which should have appeared by now.
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Better still, they're fresh, they release new albums with original material and you can watch them live.
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But this was the party to publicise the launch of the Spice Girls new album .
solo
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In 1961 he recorded his first solo album , It's Morrissey Man!
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But only last year, at age 31, did she release her first solo album .
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In 1993 he recorded a further solo album .
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This time he is promoting a solo album .
■ NOUN
chart
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The album sold 18,000 copies within two weeks and entered the album chart at number 47.
debut
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The front cover of Dry, their debut album , captures Harvey's lipsticked mouth smudged against glass.
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A really fine debut album by a local jazz player who seldom gets any ink.
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Their debut album Doppelganger, which was written and recorded in just three months, is out on Monday.
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With their debut album for the superb independent label Dorado, D*Note are going to go clear.
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It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned.
photo
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He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
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I want you to look at this photo album while we wait for the gyms to open.
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He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums .
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Hence photo albums , souvenirs, diaries.
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Sally would leave photos of herself in a special photo album for Hannah and call home frequently.
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You will need plain photo album luggage labels.
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I went through the photo album ten, eleven times, seeing nothing.
photograph
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Get out the photograph album , remember old times and cry - if that is what feels right for you to do.
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I looked just like the young girl my grandmother had shown me in her photograph albums .
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Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum, make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.
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They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of some one's attic.
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Ask to see the entire range of photograph albums together with any extras you may require such as pocket books and frames.
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Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums .
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She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and, on a whim, began to search for them.
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On a photograph album a For easy going daily life, the dear and valuable memorandum b Photographs 8.
■ VERB
hear
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Wan na hear a John Lydon album dedicated to John Bradshaw?
play
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I played on four albums for Barry Gibb.
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Pleased with the results, Buckingham then asked his former bandmate who he should get to play bass on the album .
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Terrasson and Parker first met while playing on a 1992 album by saxophonist Jesse Davis.
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It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste, which is no bad thing.
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But if I want to hear the long, late-night groove on side two, I have to play the album .
produce
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Having ditched Belladonna, they produced an album burning with an intensity and fury rarely paralleled.
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This locally produced album features simple arrangements of traditional and original Christmas songs.
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She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album .
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To produce boards the way you produce record albums .
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The collaboration was supposed to work the old magic and produce a classic album .
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This year alone, he has produced three albums and five singles that have each sold more than a million copies.
record
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In 1970, he joined Blood, Sweat &038; Tears, touring worldwide and recording eleven albums with them.
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McKennitt has since recorded four more albums on her own label, Quinlan Road.
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They recorded this album live with me.
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Majors spend more on one ad than we did on recording an album .
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Currently Steve and Gillian are working with New Order, who are recording an album .
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In 1961 he recorded his first solo album , It's Morrissey Man!
release
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He recently released a live acoustic album on the Plump label.
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Cashing in on the interest, Donovan is releasing his own album later this year.
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Even Johnny Cash released an album on vinyl last year.
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She may also release an album of theatre classics.
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But only last year, at age 31, did she release her first solo album .
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Seven singles were to be released from the album , all sinking without a trace.
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Blue Note plans to release 12 more albums in April or early May.
sell
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Following John Talman's death his collection was sold and these two albums entered the collection of the ceramics industrialist Josiah Wedgwood.
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I thought if they were stars, they would be selling gold and platinum albums .
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U2 have sold 100 million albums worldwide and had four No1s.
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Most rock acts tour in order to sell their latest album , and tailor their live show accordingly.
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They sold massive amounts of albums and concert tickets, but were never a singles band.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wedding album
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an album of Disney songs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I thought if they were stars, they would be selling gold and platinum albums.
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In any album deal, we normally take options for six albums.
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She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and, on a whim, began to search for them.
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So, a sort of ignominious continuation - Elvis Costello's thirty-third album !
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The tracks were interspersed with dialogue, which gave the duo the idea for the new album .
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There are hundreds of album covers and lists of songs but not much history or context.
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These will be made up into an album of at least eight prints and the best portrait will be specially framed for you.
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Tim was looking through an old photograph album she'd put out, with pictures of previous Christmases.