A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson ( Aerial Pandemonium Ballet , 1971). [1] As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time is Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997).
Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (1971) by Harry Nilsson is credited as the first remix album. [1] It was released after the successes of "Everybody's Talkin'" and The Point! , when he decided that his older material had started to sound dated.[ citation needed ] Neu!'s Neu! 2 (1973) has also been described as "in effect the first remix album", as many tracks see the duo "speed up, slow down, cut, doctor, and mutilate the material, sometimes beyond recognition". [2]
In the 1980s, record companies would combine several kinds of electronic dance music, such as dance-pop, house, techno, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, hardstyle, and trap into full-length albums, creating a relatively low-overhead addition to the catalogs and balance sheets. [3] Soft Cell's Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (1982) and The Human League's Love and Dancing (1982) are credited for inventing the modern remix album. [4] Since this time, this kind of release is not only seen as an easy cash-in for an artist and their label, but also as an opportunity to provide a second lease of life for a record. [5] In reggae music, it is not uncommon for a whole album to be remixed in a dub style. [6] [7]
Jennifer Lopez's album J to tha L–O! The Remixes (2002) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first remix album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart. [8]
No. | Album | Artist | Record label | Released | Total certified units (from available markets) [a] | Claimed sales (At least 500,000 sold) |
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1 | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix | Michael Jackson | Epic Records | 1997 | 2,775,000
| 6,000,000 [34] |
2 | You Can Dance | Madonna | Sire Records | 1987 | 5,000,000 [41] | |
3 | Love | The Beatles | Apple Records | 2006 | 4,132,500
| 5,000,000 [45] |
4 | Reanimation | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. Records | 2002 | ||
5 | J to tha L–O! The Remixes | Jennifer Lopez | Epic Records | 2002 | 3,000,000 [47] | |
6 | Shut Up and Dance: Mixes | Paula Abdul | Virgin Records | 1990 | 1,000,000 [48] | |
7 | Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix | Ayumi Hamasaki | Avex Trax | 2000 | 1,200,000
| |
8 | We Invented the Remix | P. Diddy | Bad Boy Records | 2002 | ||
9 | Never Say Never: The Remixes | Justin Bieber | Island Records | 2011 | ||
10 | Dance!...Ya Know It! | Bobby Brown | MCA Records | 1989 | ||
11 | No More Games/The Remix Album | New Kids on the Block | Columbia Records | 1990 | ||
12 | Misia Remix 2000 Little Tokyo | Misia | Arista Records | 2000 | 800,000
| 831,000 [51] |
13 | Further Down the Spiral | Nine Inch Nails | Nothing Records | 1995 | ||
14 | Ayu-mi-x II Version Non-Stop Mega Mix | Ayumi Hamasaki | Avex Trax | 2000 | 505,000 [52] | |
15 | Disco | Pet Shop Boys | Parlophone | 1986 | ||
16 | New Old Songs | Limp Bizkit | Interscope Records | 2001 | 500,000
| |
17 | Eu e Memê, Memê e Eu | Lulu Santos | BMG Brasil | 2000 | ||
18 | The Remix | Lady Gaga | Interscope Records | 2010 | 500,000 [53] | |
19 | The Remixes | Shakira | Sony Music | 1997 | 200,000
| 500,000 [54] |
20 | Todas as Estações - Remixes | Sandy & Junior | Universal Music Group | 2000 | 500,000 [55] | |
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