albumal‧bum /ˈælbəm/ ●●○ S3 W3 noun [countable] 
The band plan to release their new album next week.2a book that you put photographs, stamps etc in: a photograph album
WORD ORIGINalbum
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin ‘unused surface for writing on’, from albus ‘white’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a wedding album
- an album of Disney songs
- I thought if they were stars, they would be selling gold and platinum albums.
- In any album deal, we normally take options for six albums.
- She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and, on a whim, began to search for them.
- So, a sort of ignominious continuation - Elvis Costello's thirty-third album!
- The tracks were interspersed with dialogue, which gave the duo the idea for the new album.
- There are hundreds of album covers and lists of songs but not much history or context.
- These will be made up into an album of at least eight prints and the best portrait will be specially framed for you.
- Tim was looking through an old photograph album she'd put out, with pictures of previous Christmases.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Their debut album was recorded in 1991. We’ll be playing you a track from his new live album (=album that was recorded from a live performance).
1a group of songs or pieces of music on a record, CD, download etc: (=of CDs that have several songs on them)· This put Marley into the album charts for the first time.
Their debut album was recorded in 1991. We’ll be playing you a track from his new live album (=album that was recorded from a live performance). (=a book in which you put photos)· She took every picture of her ex-husband out of the family photo album.
(=a book in which you put photographs)· Mama kept a photograph album full of pictures of her family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· As an Eric Clapton fan, I recommend this double album without the slightest hesitation.· There are certainly far more double albums out there that are worse.· A double album of greatest hits and misses, which concentrates on their later years.· A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.· I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album!!
· It was just a good album and they played the parts really well.· The recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for best classical album.· Thus, the companion record is currently the best goth album on the market.· This is the best studio album that the original line-up ever produced.
· What are the greatest albums of the rock era?· This groove is played with a swing eighth note feel - great line, great track, great album.· As it turns out, though, one of the greatest albums in his catalog has only just been released commercially.
· Her latest album is hugely successful in the U.S. and here, yet you never see her on the celebrity circuit.· Most rock acts tour in order to sell their latest album, and tailor their live show accordingly.
· He recently released a live acoustic album on the Plump label.· The last word in live hard rock albums.· They took stock with a live album.· But the rest of the album, unlike other live albums, was truly live.· He went on to record a live album in 1966 with the blues legend Jimmy Witherspoon.· The group hope to release both a live and studio album shortly.
· While they were watching their single, another machine was knocking out Paul McCartney's new album at one every 2 seconds.· The new Beatles album brings in an estimated $ 24 million in its first week.· Five years later, the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew.· He taps that skill on his new album, which is the first official jazz record of his career.· She is guaranteed a £3 million advance and 42 percent royalty on new albums.· Incidentally, Larry Klein is supposed to have produced the new Shawn Colvin album, which should have appeared by now.· Better still, they're fresh, they release new albums with original material and you can watch them live.· But this was the party to publicise the launch of the Spice Girls new album.
· In 1961 he recorded his first solo album, It's Morrissey Man!· But only last year, at age 31, did she release her first solo album.· In 1993 he recorded a further solo album.· This time he is promoting a solo album.
NOUN· The album sold 18,000 copies within two weeks and entered the album chart at number 47.
· The front cover of Dry, their debut album, captures Harvey's lipsticked mouth smudged against glass.· A really fine debut album by a local jazz player who seldom gets any ink.· Their debut album Doppelganger, which was written and recorded in just three months, is out on Monday.· With their debut album for the superb independent label Dorado, D*Note are going to go clear.· It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned.
· He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.· I want you to look at this photo album while we wait for the gyms to open.· He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.· Hence photo albums, souvenirs, diaries.· Sally would leave photos of herself in a special photo album for Hannah and call home frequently.· You will need plain photo album luggage labels.· I went through the photo album ten, eleven times, seeing nothing.
· Get out the photograph album, remember old times and cry - if that is what feels right for you to do.· I looked just like the young girl my grandmother had shown me in her photograph albums.· Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum, make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.· They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of some one's attic.· Ask to see the entire range of photograph albums together with any extras you may require such as pocket books and frames.· Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums.· She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and, on a whim, began to search for them.· On a photograph album a For easy going daily life, the dear and valuable memorandum b Photographs 8.
VERB· Wan na hear a John Lydon album dedicated to John Bradshaw?
· I played on four albums for Barry Gibb.· Pleased with the results, Buckingham then asked his former bandmate who he should get to play bass on the album.· Terrasson and Parker first met while playing on a 1992 album by saxophonist Jesse Davis.· It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste, which is no bad thing.· But if I want to hear the long, late-night groove on side two, I have to play the album.
· Having ditched Belladonna, they produced an album burning with an intensity and fury rarely paralleled.· This locally produced album features simple arrangements of traditional and original Christmas songs.· She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album.· To produce boards the way you produce record albums.· The collaboration was supposed to work the old magic and produce a classic album.· This year alone, he has produced three albums and five singles that have each sold more than a million copies.
· In 1970, he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears, touring worldwide and recording eleven albums with them.· McKennitt has since recorded four more albums on her own label, Quinlan Road.· They recorded this album live with me.· Majors spend more on one ad than we did on recording an album.· Currently Steve and Gillian are working with New Order, who are recording an album.· In 1961 he recorded his first solo album, It's Morrissey Man!
· He recently released a live acoustic album on the Plump label.· Cashing in on the interest, Donovan is releasing his own album later this year.· Even Johnny Cash released an album on vinyl last year.· She may also release an album of theatre classics.· But only last year, at age 31, did she release her first solo album.· Seven singles were to be released from the album, all sinking without a trace.· Blue Note plans to release 12 more albums in April or early May.
· Following John Talman's death his collection was sold and these two albums entered the collection of the ceramics industrialist Josiah Wedgwood.· I thought if they were stars, they would be selling gold and platinum albums.· U2 have sold 100 million albums worldwide and had four No1s.· Most rock acts tour in order to sell their latest album, and tailor their live show accordingly.· They sold massive amounts of albums and concert tickets, but were never a singles band.
The band plan to release their new album next week.2a book that you put photographs, stamps etc in: a photograph album