Compiling hits on an album is a common resource in the music industry.
A compilation is an excerpt , a recapitulation , or a selection of something larger or greater. Typically, the compilation consists of fragments or pieces of a larger artistic work .
For example: "The English band presented a compilation of their greatest hits" , "The compilation presents the best journalistic articles published by the Colombian in the 1980s" , "Look at this compilation of falls in the street: it is very funny" .
Compilation of musical hits
Compilations of musical hits are very common. It is common for artists who have a certain track record, with several albums released, to take advantage of this resource to once again market their most popular titles. A compilation, in this way, collects songs from the different stages of his career and presents them all in a single product.
An example of this is Queen 's "Greatest Hits" , an album released in 1981 that includes songs that the English band released between 1973 and 1981 .
It should be noted that compilation is not only used to bring together the best songs of an artist or a musical band on an album, since record companies also use this as a tactic to boost sales of their less successful figures. It is not uncommon for a star to emerge, driven by an unusual topic, and to fade after a few years due to not being able to sustain his or her own fame.
In the publishing field, an anthology is a compilation of works that, at the time, were created or published individually.
The impact of digital platforms
Nowadays, thanks to platforms like Spotify or iTunes , which allow us to access thousands of music albums from the comfort of our home (although each of them offer quite different services), it is enough to search for recordings of those people who have not been there for a while. see in the media and that we believed that they had secured a little place in the world of entertainment to find us with more compilations than albums of unreleased songs .
On the other hand, great artists usually show the opposite reality: many albums of new music and a "greatest hits" every now and then.
Editorial compilations
In the publishing universe there are also compilations. In this case, these are collections of texts that maintain some type of link or characteristic in common. They may be compilations by the same author (such as "Macabre Tales" , which brings together short stories by Edgar Allan Poe ), compilations of texts that share a genre or style ( "Anthology of Current Latin American Chronicles" ), etc.
An anthology is precisely a type of compilation of works that stand out for various reasons, or that meet some criteria, such as coming from a particular region or having been written by a certain author. The anthology is very common in the field of poetry, but we also find it in genres such as the essay, the story and the fable, for example. In some cases there is no well-defined theme, but rather it responds to a very personal need to see certain works under a single title.
Information collection
Information collection, in another sense, is the process of collecting data for some purpose: «I am still working on collecting statistics: I will only start writing the report next week» , «Opposition legislators were concerned about the compilation of confidential information that the government is carrying out with the supposed objective of protecting national security .
To collect information, it is necessary to draw up a defined action plan , which must include the way and scope in which we will search for it, and also the tools with which we will analyze the data obtained to filter it and prepare the final product, according to the needs. that drove our activity in the first place. An investigation can lead us to unexpected discoveries, which threaten the continuity of our task, which is why it is necessary to define how much we can deviate from the initial objective, to avoid losing perspective.