Someone wanna explain to me the difference between Record- and Album of the Year?

[Howard Roark]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Musi...ex.html?hpt=C1

excerpts in question:

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Taylor Swift won the biggest Grammy of the night, album of the year for her CD "Fearless."

Alternative rock band Kings of Leon upset favorites Beyonce and Swift to win the record of the year Grammy for "Use Somebody."

[Ryko]

Record is single I'm fairly sure, album obviously isn't.

[Howard Roark]

album, release, cd, record, recording, song, single, ep, lp have become far too interchangeable

[Howard Roark]

song, track etc

[Ryko]

This is kind of obvious though.

1 song vs more than 1 song.

[Howard Roark]

if I knew the song titles versus album titles that would be immediately clear but idgaf about kings of beyonce or taylor leon

[Howard Roark]

and what kind of record has 1 song on it? even the beatles didn't do that

[Ryko]

Single records have 1 track <_< it used to be a good way to get extra sales out of an album by coming out with like 5 versions of the song and just releasing it as its own disc.

Normal
Remix
Instrumental
A capella
and one last remix.

[Howard Roark]

for me a record is a 45 or an LP, possibly an EP, or other various forms of vinyl

a "hit record" is a bit slang to me, but even so, it's an entire album in my understanding


maybe I'm off here, but I have not once heard 'record' to refer to a single song, seems counter-intuitive

[Howard Roark]

Single records have 1 track <_< it used to be a good way to get extra sales out of an album by coming out with like 5 versions of the song and just releasing it as its own disc.

that's 5 songs sir, I have tons of those (5 songs on one disc, it's commonly referred to as a single, as is the title track)

[Ryko]

The part that is particularly retarded is how it's not the same as song of the year.

[Shiroikage]

Yeah, singles are implied to have B-sides at least.

[Howard Roark]

1 track, 1 song, the only song, on one record (or CD these days) released for consumption (and not shipped directly to radio stations or put inside a magazine slip, those are different) is an odd occurrence

[Ryko]

Also, it's at the very most 3 songs if you count remixes. A capella and Instrumental should not count as their own "songs".

[Howard Roark]

The part that is particularly retarded is how it's not the same as song of the year.

further confusion ensues

[Howard Roark]

Also, it's at the very most 3 songs if you count remixes. A capella and Instrumental should not count as their own tracks.

come again?

oh, the ninja edit appears!

[Ryko]

Miswording, corrected.

[Howard Roark]

I have seen 2 original songs and as many as 7, although that particular flaming lips ep or loosely termed 'single' was a standalone release iirc (sec, lemme look it up)

oh, nope it was a single, it was for Fight Test by The Flaming Lips, and apparently there only 6, but still, that's a lot of original tracks for a 'single'



and then there's ep + 6 by Mogwai!! but that is confusing the issue perhaps :)

[Howard Roark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EP%2B6#Track_listing

[Howard Roark]

10, count them

10 songs!

ah hah hah

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