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CD Single

Artist: Iron Maiden Label:   EMI Country: UK Catalogue: CDEM 171 Barcode: 5099920417123 Date: 24 Dec 1990 Format: CD Single Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Producer	Rating
01	Iron Maiden	Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter			Rate
02	Iron Maiden	I'm A Mover			Rate
03	Iron Maiden	Communication Breakdown			Rate

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Second catalogue number: CDP 560-204172
'Made in Holland' on label side
'EMI SWINDON' in the hub

This CD single was listed amongst the available formats in trade magazine 'Music Week' when the single entered the charts at #1 for the week ending 30 December 1990.

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henry29 13th Apr 2017		@mister_tmg. You got a real bargain there nice one. I only keep the Number Ones and the Cardboard sleeve ones Separately. I put the Number ones In the Card Sleeve I have posted here. So It protects the Disc and I get the Information from the Sleeve. And I do the same for the Cardboard, Poster, Shaped Sleeve ones just to stop them from Tearing. H,
mister_tmg 12th Apr 2017		£22 on eBay Buy it Now. Doubt I will find it cheaper and in better condition. Do you keep your sleeves and discs separately?
henry29 12th Apr 2017		@mister_tmg. That's great. Now You can put up the Box Images as this Is the Bit I cannot find. It's probably among al the Empty box's and going though just to find one would take forever. Lol. H.
mister_tmg 12th Apr 2017		Received today in top condition. Possibly the rarest CD single to make #1 in the UK, although the first (Whitney's I Wanna Dance With Somebody) has sold for more, along with others from the late 80s. Those aren't as scarce, but attract higher values.
mister_tmg 7th Mar 2017		Listed in the Rare Record Price Guide as worth £100 in mint condition. It doesn't usually go for that much online but it certainly doesn't come up often.
mister_tmg 18th Feb 2017		Ah I see. I thought the card sleeve came from the shop. I thought CDs were always released on a Monday? Conflicting information on Wikipedia but it could have come out on Christmas Eve, Monday 24 December 1990 - in time for Christmas, but too late for the Christmas Number One that year. The chart for that week would have been announced on Sunday 30 December. That might help explain the low sales - there'd be at least one day that week with no records bought, and less interest after Christmas. I wonder what the release date was.
henry29 17th Feb 2017		@mister_tmg. Could have been, The Date on the sleeve Is the date It went to #1. But I would have this Before It went to Number One. I Think It was the Mid-week Sales that said It could be #1 by the Sunday Chart. I would not have been able to buy the CD after It was Number One. It was only Available for one day. And was so limited that shop only had Two Copy's sent and I had one. It was a Friday that the New Releases were put out. Even though the shop would have had the Releases on a Wednesday. H.
mister_tmg 17th Feb 2017		Thanks. Very interesting. Do you think the date on the card sleeve is the day you bought it? That was a Sunday. Wonder if that was the one day it was available.
henry29 17th Feb 2017		I have added My Written notes from the Period. The Black Circles means I Picked up the Vinyl Single on the same Day as the CD Single. And the Entry for this Single has a Circle. H.
henry29 17th Feb 2017		Images Added. The Card sleeve can be Deleted when the Cover Is scanned In. H.
RecordDragon 17th Feb 2017		CD images
mister_tmg 16th Feb 2017		Various sources have said this was only issued on various (collectable) vinyl and cassette formats, without a CD single, a format which was becoming the norm by 1990. One site says the CD single was only issued after the single had fallen from #1: "The last single to reach number 1 without the benefit of a CD format being available was Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter by Iron Maiden. They did in fact release a CD format a couple of weeks later but it didn't count toward their chart position as the single was already available on the maximum five formats (four vinyl and one cassette)." No.1 Facts and Feats Music Week magazine listed available formats for chart records though, and this CD single was one of them. Possibly pressed in Holland and over the busy Christmas period, but a few Iron Maiden fan sites state the CD single was a UK release. The record is estimated to have only sold 100,000 copies in total - at the time, very low for a chart-topper. It sold 42,000 copies in its first week at #1, and 29,000 in the second. The vinyl formats had collectable artwork so were probably more of interest than a plain old CD (or cassette), which wasn't quite the main format yet, I believe. So I'd say the evidence is that there was a CD single available, including when it reached #1, but it probably sold in very low quantities, from comparatively small overall sales. Hence it's seldom seen nowadays, and probably one of the few CD singles from the 1990s to be worth much.

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