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Topic: Where's it from?

16th Dec 2012, 8:16 PM
	thatsunday Member since Dec 2012 4541 Points Moderator	I would like to add some thoughts to this (mostly based on my Polygram/Universal experiences). Numbers like WE 739 aren't catalogue numbers but distributors price codes for France which were mandatory there. On german releases the labelcode (starting with LC) is often mistaken for a cat no. Regarding the UK (label) catalogue numbers and the international ones, based on Polygram/Universal: - all commercial releases should have the international number, even if the release is only locally released. Most of the times it's clearly visible on the artwork, sometimes it is hidden in the barcode (as digits) - this international cat no is centrally assigned (by an Universal Music office in the Netherlands, also reponsible for licensing and copyrights) - even a small change in the tracklisting (ie a bonus track for the UK version) requires a new cat no (UPC) - the label catalogue numbers have no real use today as everything is based on the UPC (manufacturing, ordering, distribution) This is an example how I entered two different pressings of the same release with nearly identical artwork, down to cat nos and barcode [image]432[/image] UK : pressed in the UK, entered with label number BRXCD 2, international number 874 255-2 as secondary. Both nos have a relevance (IMHO) for identifying the release (part of a UK release sequence resp. ordering) Europe: pressed in Germany, entered with 874 255-2 only. I haven't entered BRXCD 2 despite it being in the artwork because it wasn't used for reference in Europe. Does this makes sense? From my point of view Europe is a good catch all for a lot of release, but what about releases for Benelux, Scandinavia or GAS (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)? I tend to enter these under the country which makes the most sense (ie home country of the artist or the label), but there will be some grey areas too...