Album
Album From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search collection of recorded music, words, sounds collection of recorded music, words, sounds This article is about albums of recorded music. For other uses, see Album (disambiguation). Early record albums were multiple 78rpm discs packaged in book form, like a photograph album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at 33 1 ⁄ 3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of