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Polar Music (via Universal) are to reissue ABBA The Album as a 40th anniversary edition in various formats, including 2LP half-speed mastered vinyl edition and a triple-disc seven-inch coloured vinyl picture disc.
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Sony’s Legacy Recordings will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Mariah Carey‘s 1997 album Butterfly with a ‘collector’s edition’ 12-inch vinyl picture disc.
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Another Shadows release (check out the 11CD signed box set), this time aimed at the vinyl connoisseur. At Their Very Best is a 2LP hits collection available in limited numbers on red vinyl.
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Seal has a new album out in November called Standards.
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Blue Note will issue double-disc deluxe editions of Norah Jones‘ 2016 album Day Breaks on CD and vinyl next month.
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In the unlikely event you want another copy of Ian Dury‘s New Boots and Panties!!!, Demon are issuing a further variation of the classic album, in the form of this 2LP green/orange spatter vinyl edition.
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Another one of those mega King Crimson box sets is due in November. Sailors’ Tales brings together the ‘complete’ 1970-72 King Crimson across 27 discs with a price-tag that would make Paul McCartney blush.
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Boxing The Shadows 1980-1990 is a new 11CD box set that explores The Shadows‘ decade-long association with Polydor Records.
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Good price on Amazon Germany right now for the five-disc deluxe book edition of last year’s Rolling Stones Totally Stripped release.
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Next time you hesitate over the value of that four-disc box set that some record company has the cheek to charge you $50 for, reflect on Gene Simmons‘ new 10CD package called The Vault that costs up to $50,000!
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King Crimson‘s 1972 live album Earthbound will be reissued in November as a CD+DVD deluxe edition, with an interesting array of content.
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A year after BMG’s two-CD deluxe editions of Alison Moyet‘s four CBS/Sony albums – Alf, Raindancing, Hoodoo and Essex – come vinyl LP reissues of the same four titles.
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A timely deal alert to advise fans that the limited edition German-only ‘fanbox’ edition of a-ha‘s new MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice album has dropped in price, significantly.
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Packaging freaks (guilty as charged) and CD collectors know that it’s hard to beat a Japanese pressing of an album presented with the full ‘vinyl replica’ treatment. These are also sometimes referred to as ‘mini-LP CDs’ or ‘paper sleeve’ editions. The good news for Pink Floyd fans is that the band’s entire discography from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Endless River will receive this treatment with a run of limited edition mini-LP CD pressings due in November.
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This October, Rhino will issue Tim Buckley: The Complete Album Collection, an eight-CD box set that brings together the body of music the singer-songwriter recorded between 1966 and 1972.
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Very good price today for The Studio Collection: Volume II, a five-LP box set that complements Sting‘s original Studio Collection.
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Will little to no fanfare, Warners issue their 2016 Prince compilation 4EVER as a 4LP vinyl box set. 
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Genesis founder member Anthony Phillips‘ 1983 album Invisible Men (written and recorded with Richard Scott) will be reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition in October.
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After teasing fans for a while about how he was working on an apparently ‘new’ George Michael song, Nile Rodgers (and Sony) this week announced that a 2017 version of 1990 B-side Fantasy was being released as a single to promote George’s Listen Without Prejudice reissue.
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At the end of August SDE mentioned that the third single from Depeche Mode‘s Spirit album would be Cover Me. At that time you could pre-order a 2 x 12-inch vinyl single, but now 8-track CD single is available for pre-order.
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