One of the first examples consisting of new studio recordings is 1956's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book. Īs record costs reduced over time and greater thought was given to the album as an artistic piece, double albums became more common. Studio recordings of operas have been released as double, triple, quadruple and quintuple albums since the 1950s. One of the first live double albums, and one of the earliest double albums featuring non-classical music, was The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, a concert recording released in 1950 on Columbia Records. As they were costly to make and sell, double albums and multi-record releases were largely limited to long works such as classical music and, later, to live recordings and compilations. Despite this, recordings of entire classical or operatic pieces were often too long for one LP disc, thus albums of two or more discs were made. The introduction of the long-play or LP record in 1948 allowed longer tracks or a greater number of tracks per record, with approximately 22 minutes of music per side, for a total of 44 minutes. Packages with more units than three are often referred to as a box set.Ĭover for The Beatles (1968), colloquially known as The White Album, one of the best-selling double albums of all time 1948 to the early 1970s: long-play records The same principles apply to the triple album, which comprises three units. Other times, track order could vary between two different media by rearranging the tracks in one medium, or a more efficient use of space could be made for example, reducing a double album in LP format to a single cassette tape. For example, a gramophone record (vinyl LP) consisting of two discs of less than 80 minutes in total could be fit onto a single standard-length compact disc (CD). Some such discs were also released on a two-sided format called DualDisc.ĭepending on the media used, some releases were double albums in one format and single albums in another. One innovation was the inclusion of a DVD of related material with a compact disc, such as video related to the album or DVD-Audio versions of the same recordings.
Since the advent of the compact disc, albums are sometimes released with a bonus disc featuring additional material as a supplement to the main album, with live tracks, studio out-takes, cut songs, or older unreleased material. Recording artists often think of double albums as being a single piece artistically however, there are exceptions such as John Lennon's Some Time in New York City (which consisted of one studio record and one live album packaged together) and OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (effectively two solo albums, one by each member of the duo). A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium.
A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc.
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