Album - Notable Historical Events
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Album - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1945-03-15 |
Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) |
1951-08-31 |
1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf |
1956-09-08 |
Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1958-05-19 |
South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1961-12-11 |
Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks |
1961-12-13 |
Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller |
1962-05-05 |
West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album |
1962-12-15 |
Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks |
1963-02-11 |
Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
1963-03-22 |
Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" |
1963-11-22 |
The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK |
1964-01-20 |
"Meet The Beatles" album released in US |
1964-01-27 |
"Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
1964-02-03 |
"Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold |
1964-02-15 |
Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
1964-05-02 |
Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks |
1964-06-10 |
Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
1964-06-25 |
WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th |
1964-06-26 |
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
1964-07-25 |
Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks |
1964-10-31 |
Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks |
1964-12-04 |
Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
1965-01-09 |
Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1965-01-15 |
Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" |
1965-06-14 |
Beatles release album "Beatles VI" |
1965-07-10 |
Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1965-08-06 |
Beatles release "Help" album in UK |
1965-09-11 |
Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1966-01-08 |
Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1966-03-12 |
Love's 1st album released "Love" |
1966-03-25 |
Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled |
1966-07-30 |
Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
1966-08-05 |
Beatles release "Revolver" album in US |
1966-09-10 |
Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
1967-12-08 |
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK |
1968-01-06 |
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks |
1968-05-30 |
Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" |
1968-08-31 |
Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover |
1968-10-14 |
Beatles "White Album" completed |
1968-11-11 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album |
1968-11-22 |
Beatles release "Beatles" (White Album), their only double album |
1968-11-29 |
John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK |
1968-12-28 |
Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1969-01-03 |
John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ |
1969-01-09 |
Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" single and its album "Revolver" in the US |
1969-01-11 |
Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts |
1969-01-17 |
Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US |
1969-01-23 |
Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" |
1969-02-13 |
Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
1969-02-17 |
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released. |
1969-02-25 |
Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album |
1969-09-26 |
Beatles release "Abbey Road" album |
1969-11-01 |
The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
1969-11-07 |
John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK |
1969-12-19 |
Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released |
1970-02-26 |
Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album |
1970-03-01 |
Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released |
1970-03-27 |
Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" |
1970-04-17 |
Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released |
1970-05-08 |
Beatles release "Let it Be" album |
1970-06-13 |
Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks |
1970-09-25 |
Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues" |
1970-11-16 |
Elton John records a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album |
1970-11-27 |
George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass" |
1970-11-30 |
George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" |
1971-05-28 |
Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" |
1971-06-09 |
Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold |
1971-09-09 |
John Lennon releases "Imagine" album |
1971-12-07 |
Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" |
1972-01-10 |
Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK |
1972-06-10 |
Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden |
1973-05-26 |
Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1 |
1973-07-25 |
George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album |
1973-11-09 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album |
1973-11-16 |
John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
1973-12-05 |
Paul McCartney releases album "Band on the Run" album |
1974-03-11 |
Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album |
1974-03-25 |
Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" |
1974-10-04 |
John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album |
1974-12-20 |
George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK |
1975-02-21 |
John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album |
1975-05-30 |
Wings release "Venus & Mars" album |
1975-10-03 |
George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK |
1976-01-16 |
Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive" |
1976-03-26 |
Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album |
1976-09-17 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album |
1976-12-10 |
Wings release triple album "Wings Over America" |
1977-02-19 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released |
1977-04-02 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1977-04-06 |
Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released |
1977-09-30 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo the 4th" album |
1978-01-02 |
Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
1978-01-21 |
Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks |
1978-03-31 |
Wings release "London Town" album |
1978-06-16 |
Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" |
1979-02-23 |
George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album |
1979-06-08 |
Wings release "Back to the Egg" album |
1980-05-16 |
Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album |
1980-07-18 |
Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts |
1980-10-25 |
Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks |
1980-11-17 |
John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK |
1981-11-20 |
Ringo releases "Stop & Smell Roses" album |
1982-09-10 |
Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album |
1982-11-05 |
George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album |
1982-12-01 |
Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller" |
1983-02-26 |
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks |
1983-06-16 |
Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
1983-10-31 |
Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
1984-01-27 |
John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album |
1984-04-21 |
After 37 weeks "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" |
1984-08-04 |
Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks |
1985-02-09 |
Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks |
1985-08-07 |
Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album" |
1985-12-21 |
Heart's "Heart" album goes #1 |
1986-02-10 |
"John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released posthumously |
1986-08-16 |
Madonna's "True Blue" album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single |
1986-09-01 |
Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album |
1986-11-03 |
John Lennon "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously |
1987-10-10 |
Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
1987-11-17 |
The Madonna compilation album "You Can Dance" is released |
1988-10-19 |
Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album |
1989-10-23 |
George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album |
1990-02-06 |
Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards! |
1990-11-15 |
Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album |
1991-02-02 |
Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages' |
1991-03-11 |
Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records |
1991-03-20 |
Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records |
1992-06-02 |
Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light" |
1994-11-30 |
Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain |
1995-07-12 |
Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, "Enrique Iglesias" |
1996-02-13 |
Rapper Tupac Shakur releases his 4th studio album 'All Eyez on Me' |
1997-11-17 |
Metallica release the album "ReLoad" |
1999-02-23 |
Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album 'The Slim Shady LP' (Grammy 2000 - Rap album) |
1999-06-27 |
The Chemical Brothers go to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Surrender', their second No.1 album |
1999-08-12 |
Shakira records her first live album in New York City, titled "MTV Unplugged" |
2000-05-23 |
Eminem releases 3rd studio album 'The Marshall Mathers LP', is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album 2001) |
2001-11-13 |
Shakira's fifth studio album and first English language album, "Laundry Service", is released |
2001-11-20 |
Josh Groban releases his debut album "Josh Groban" |
2009-07-13 |
"She Wolf", the lead single from Shakira's eighth album, premiers |
2011-02-09 |
Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart. |
2013-05-10 |
Agnetha Faltskog releases a new album called "A" |
2014-04-27 |
Ariana Grande's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released |
2016-01-28 |
Rihanna releases 'Anti' album |
2016-02-17 |
Kanye West's new album pirated over 500000 times |
2016-10-19 |
Chuck Berry announces new album on 90th birthday |
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Album - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1847-02-16 |
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise) |
1926-01-13 |
Carolyn Heilbrun, [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album) |
1928-02-20 |
Jerzy Kownas, Album polski |
1929-05-30 |
Ryszard Frelek, Album polski |
1935-12-19 |
Jenõ Ranschburg, Családi album |
1945-06-29 |
Marek Gajewski, Album polski |
1956-9-05 |
Dave Lewis, Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti - A Classic Album Under Review |
1967-08-20 |
Henri-François Imbert, No Pasaran, Souvenir Album |
1970-08-06 |
Arne Zank, Tocotronic produzieren Album Nr. 8: Kapitulation |
1975-06-25 |
Vladimir Kramnik, Album 61 |
1982-06-28 |
Vocab, Jay-Z Album Release Party |
1991-07-09 |
Spencer Elden, Baby/Model on Nirvana (band)'s Nevermind album |
1992-06-16 |
Daniel Cuzzetto, CKY: Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild - The Video Album |
1992-12-06 |
William Alexander McClam, It's Coming (Album Promo) |
1998-12-29 |
Cade Olivas, Family Album |
2007-08-02 |
Jennifer Duggar, Duggars' Big Family Album |
Album - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1916-07-16 |
Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70 |
1917-07-16 |
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70 |
1950-03-06 |
Lew Lehr, Album of Animals |
1992-07-22 |
David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37 |
1995-08-11 |
Marek Gajewski, Album polski |
2007-10-21 |
Ryszard Frelek, Album polski |
2011-03-10 |
Jenõ Ranschburg, Családi album |
