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andrewt3660 29th Oct 2023		Vinyl Album Dave Davies - AFL1-3603	The actual number hidden within the barcode on the cover is 319810051417 (I actually parsed it bit by bit to figure it out); however, they deliberately trimmed off two bits from the beginning and nine from the end, so it won't scan. RCA adopted barcoding at the start of 1981, five months after this came out.
andrewt3660 16th Apr 2022		CD Album Melissa Etheridge - Never Enough	Well, this is a new one for me: A UPC barcode without a barcode number below! It scans as "731451212024," which correlates with the international catalogue number for the release.
andrewt3660 26th Mar 2022		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Greatest Moments In Sports	Might this be the first appearance of Columbia's 5.98 "K" price code that would eventually become universal across the board by 1971?
andrewt3660 13th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Jethro Tull - Living In The Past	Hmm. So it did! I wish I knew precisely when this album changed. The December 23rd Billboard listed it as "Chrysalis 2CH 1035," so it evidently happened before the end of the year. The November 18th Billboard lists it as "Chrysalis 2TS 2106." Unfortunately Google magazine search is busted, making it hard to drill down any finer.
andrewt3660 13th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album The Coasters - The Coasters	According to Discogs the master numbers for this release are 681423 and 681424, consecutive with those for the rechanneled version of 33-111. Both records probably came out in November 1968, years after the mono editions.
andrewt3660 12th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album Jethro Tull - Living In The Past	Does this release actually exist? I've long been under the impression that Living in the Past was the first album issued in the US on the Chrysalis label. No doubt it was planned as a Reprise release (and probably listed in advance catalogues and trade magazines that way), but I've never actually seen a copy of 2RS 2106 on the tan steamship label.
andrewt3660 11th Apr 2021		Vinyl Album The Babys - Head First	Billboard magazine (June 16, 1980) says that "Chrysalis...began bar coding in January with LPs by the Babys and UFO," which has to be a reference to this release and CH2 1209. Should the release date be changed to January 1979 on this basis?
andrewt3660 31st Mar 2021		Vinyl Album Celebration - Celebration	I.I.N.M., this was the second album ever released with a UPC barcode. Pacific Arts PAC7-121 (one number lower, not yet on 45Worlds) was the first, as cited in Billboard magazine on June 16, 1979: "Pacific Arts, the Carmel, Calif. independent label, has coded all new releases since a Pacific Steel Co. LP last November, believed to be the industry's first bar coded release."
andrewt3660 18th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album The Coasters - The Coasters' Greatest Hits	The master number pegs this as a November 1968 release. Atlantic must have rushed out the rechanneled version to replace the original when mono was disappearing en masse, and they didn't want this catalogue seller to get left behind.
andrewt3660 18th Feb 2020		Vinyl Album Shorty Rogers And His Giants - Shorty In Stereo	This release appears in the Nov. 3rd, 1958 issue of Billboard under the advertisement masthead of "New Stereo Discs." Given the lead time required for publication, I'd assume that makes this an October release. Though SD 1232 bears the lowest Atlantic stereo master number, the same Billboard ad lists SD 1253, 1276, and 1284 under the title of "Stereo Discs Previously Available"...implying that they came out weeks or months earlier.