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7th Jan 2013, 12:38 PM
	vinylxs Member since Jan 2013 8 Points	Just came back from holidays all miserable and I've just seen this and it's like Christmas has come back already! Just a suggestion with the Europe tag it may be good to have one for Europe including the UK and one for Europe excluding the UK. From experience I found that the UK singles market in the 80s and 90s frequently had quite independent CD single releases from those on the continent (UKIP would be proud!). This was mainly for two reasons. Firstly due to the size and importance of the UK singles market and secondly due to annoying limitations on how many tracks a single could have or how long it could be. This was quite notable around 1988-90 when CD singles sales started to take off. For example CBS released 3" singles on the continent (normally duplicating the 12" and sometimes the 7' on a separate release), while here in the UK we got a 5" single with tracks selected from both the 7" and 12". Virgin on the other hand would only release 3" discs in the UK but 5" discs for the rest of Europe - usually with the same tracks however. Releases from WEA were only on 3" singles and generally exactly the same for both the UK and Europe. I presume Ireland got the same releases as the UK (and those in Eastern Europe got nothing at al! around that time!).

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