This collection from Universal features 22 cuts from the 2012 Grammy nominees, and covers a myriad of styles and award categories like Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Country Album, and Best Pop Duo/Group ...

Soundtrack disco and 70's hits compilations are all too common these days. But that fact doesn't make this thoughtfully chosen collection from the height of the disco era any less welcome. On one level, the solid programming makes for a ...

Released in 2011 by the Spectrum label (via Sanctuary and Universal UK), this two-disc set is one of the best Shalamar anthologies. The first disc contains 19 tracks, mostly single and album edits of the group's A-sides from 1977's "Uptown ...

With guests like Akon, Lil Wayne, Usher, and Chris Brown, David Guetta's fifth studio effort might look a lot like his fourth, but this time the superstar DJ was inspired by dramatic rock bands like Coldplay. His fans have embraced ...

This is a compilation of 12" extended version re-mixes with some previously unreleased material. A fine collection of the original 12-inch dance mixes of eight of Donna Summer's classic disco singles--half of which have never appeared on CD before--this compilation is ...

Out of the myriad retrospectives that have appeared throughout the years, Mercury's 2004 The Greatest Hits collection is the first collection to span Scottish singer Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie's entire career. A playful, girl group goddess in the '60s, Lulu ...

The soundtrack to the 2012 film Step Up Revolution features a high-energy mix of hip-hop, electronic, and dance-oriented music. In keeping with the film's overall dance competition theme, these are fun, sexy, and youthful tracks clearly meant to get you ...

Not long into the ceaseless promotional parade for Born This Way, Lady Gaga's second full-length record and easily the most anticipated record of the 2010s, a certain sense of inevitability crept into play. It was inevitable that Born This Way ...

Track Listing: Tell Me; In My Bed; Never Make a Promise; Big Bad Mama; 5 Steps; How Deep Is Your Love; These Are the Times; Love We Had; Beauty; You Are Everything; I Should Be...; No Doubt; I Love You; Thong Song; Incomplete; In My Bed;

Recorded between 1987 and 1993. Includes liner notes by Bill Pitzonka. The 16-track GREATEST HITS is a comprehensive career overview for British pop singer Rick Astley, from 1987's "Never Gonna Give You Up" to 2001's "Sleeping." The folks at BMG Heritage did ...

Hot on the heels of the gloriously weird commercial stiff She Wolf, Shakira wrote and recorded "Waka Waka," a football anthem that swept the globe during the throes of 2010 World Cup fever. "Waka Waka" provided the perfect pivot to ...

III's haunting cover photo of a Muslim woman protecting her son might seem initially like it was chosen just to get attention, but it's actually the perfect representation of the album's complex mix of bleakness and comfort. This is Crystal ...

Out of a seemingly endless array of hip hop albums, every now and again something fresh and powerful rises to the top of the pile. Hailing from the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Long Island City (home to Marley Marl among ...

Deadmau5 fans can rejoice, and not just because the DJ's cat, Professor Meowingtons, graces the cover of >Album Title Goes Here<. That cute little smushy face sits on a cleverly titled effort where the superstar DJ is joined by like-minded ...

Here's one of the few no-frills budget compilations that does not mess around. Flashback with KC & the Sunshine Band contains the group's six singles that topped the Billboard Hot 100 and/or the R&B singles chart: "Get Down Tonight," "That's ...

In the span of a few years, Anton Zaslavski was inspired by Justice to make electronic dance music, reached out to Skrillex and remixed "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," became an in-demand producer of remixes and original material, and signed ...

"Lady Marmalade" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. In turning the story of the famed Paris nightclub the Moulin Rouge into a modern day fable celebrating love and creative inspiration, Baz Luhrman creates an accompanying soundtrack ...

Basia never had too many hits, racking up only three charting singles on the Top 100 ("Time and Tide," "New Day for You," "Cruising for Bruising"), but Clear Horizon: The Best of Basia remains an engaging listen nevertheless, because it ...

Ask DJ Tiësto why he picks Miami as a great club city and he'll mention the energy plus the cutting-edge glamour. Club Life, Vol. 2: Miami has plenty of both with tracks from Afrojack, Dada Life, and Avicii plus Tiësto ...

Live Recording Photographers: Eric Watson; Lawrence Watson; Douglas Brothers; Michael Roberts. Personnel: Greg Bone (guitar); Andy Duncan (percussion); Scott Davidson (programming); Tessa Niles (background vocals). Audio Mixers: David Jacob; Paul Wright ; Julian Mendelsohn; Stephen Hague.

The Complete Studio Albums (1983-2008) is an 11-disc box set that covers the self-titled album through Hard Candy. Dedicated Madonna fans know from that number that I'm Breathless -- the Dick Tracy tie-in -- must not be included, and that's ...

Exposé racked up an impressive number of dance and adult contemporary hit singles in the late '80s and early '90s, and most of them are collected on this almost perfect Greatest Hits. All their hits from Exposure are here, including ...

Initially planned solely as a standard double-disc reissue in the wake of the blockbuster success of The Fame, Lady Gaga decided to release the new material as a separate EP called The Fame Monster in addition to the standard two-CD ...

Germanic in approach and delivery, this record gets under the skin and infuriates as you find yourself compelled to hum the melodies. A significant record in the development of electronic music, and not to be confused with other "kraut rock" ...