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13th Jan 2014, 12:23 AM
	PhilMH Member since Jan 2012 1055 Points	cvalda44 wrote: PhilMH wrote: In my view, intended for the US market, with US catalogue number, so should be entered as US. Unstickered copies should have a separate entry as UK release. If this will be the decision what is the correct label then ? I see Nonesuch logo on the sticker. And i think the US cat# from the sticker should be added as second at least. But i believe such stickers may bring to a dangerous area. Sometimes it can be difficult to work out, if a local sticker is a label sticker or distributor sticker or just shop sticker. The way I see it, the primary label and catalogue number for the USA are Nonesuch and the number on the sticker, with the original label and catalogue number to be added as seconds. If a release with a sticker is difficult to work out, just raise a question here in the forums, or you might have some luck searching the back issues of Billboard in Google Books to see if there is an ad or an article documenting the release. The idea of a new tag for "Imported Release" is a good one. These kinds of releases usually aren't specifically intended as "export issues" in the way that, for example, some UK Decca and London pressings were. A parallel existed in Australia and New Zealand, where Festival Records commonly imported LP's (and later, CD's) of the more "marginal" musical forms like jazz, blues, reggae and world music, and stickered them with their own catalogue numbers (usually within the 39000/40000/41000 ranges) for local distribution (they usually included the L, C or D prefixes, but sometimes they didn't). To all intents and purposes, those were Australian/NZ releases which were pressed in the US or UK.