russh29 you are right it is a minefield. The international category as it stands on this site is different to that of Discwrongs (as I call it) so the information from that site doesn't fit the 45 World's entry procedures well at all. Basically, here we consider any release that is available for retail in more than one country (ie. Australia in this instance) and or region (we'll go for the EU as is the case here) is international. There are a lot of problems with this system that have been debated for years but regardless that's how we still do things. It is more accurate when things are correctly entered but it is difficult to know whether the product you buy is the same product I might buy way down here in Australia.
So, we have a lot of entries on the site that don't meet our own guidelines but there are some give away signs on EU produced releases that will help you out. Anything on BMG that says BMG Rights Management which is usually followed by brackets with a country in it is international. It is an international label that produces product usually in the Czech Rep. by GZ Media specifically for international release. So all of those Slade re-releases are international and available all over the world.
This also applies to sub-labels of BMG like Sanctuary and here's one I've entered correctly from a few years back. This one I entered incorrectly a bit earlier on but the same way you did here. I call this the "what's on the tin method". Nothing wrong with it but just not quite right with the guidelines of this site.
If we on this site can nut something out that works we'll be the first in the world to do so because as you know everywhere else on the net is still using the place of manufacture as country/region of release. Either that or we could change the guidelines to reflect how most users put things which is the way you entered this album.
Hi Lee Wrecker…it’s a minefield isn’t it ! I added this as an EU release as all the other releases in this series of coloured re-issues (Slayed?, Old, New, Borrowed And Blue & Flame) are tagged here as EU releases (they are also all tagged as EU over on the other major database site beginning with D).
This will be available in Australia six days later on the 28/01/22. Will that require a new entry on the strength of the differing release dates? Or is this just another BMG international release like nearly everything BMG manufactures in the EU. Here's a link to Slade In Flame that is also available here as normal retail product. Nearly everything released by Universal, Sony, BMG, Warner Bros and even independentity things under the Sanctuary banner are all international these days.
Even the 100 year old industry copyright differences between the USA and Europe are disappearing as these multi-transnationals centralise production and maximise distribution. The USA and Japan will be last dominoes to fall but we're already very close to a one world one product situation in terms of music distribution. Here's an album I cheekily entered as Australian a few years back.
Now you all can see it's an EU produced product but how do I know it was released in the EU. I'm not there and can't look in the shops or read the local music press. All I can be certain of is that it was released in Australia as I bought it in Australia from Warner's Australian website. So That is why it should an Australian release until someone can prove otherwise. So far no one has bothered so it is correctly listed even though I know it is wrong. If I had listed it as an EU release that would also be correct but still wrong because I bought in Australia from Warner's Australian website. So obviously it's an international release and that is correct but it's very hard to determine that from where anyone sits in the world and in particular the EU for obvious reasons.