![]() ![]() Mumford and Sons got the royal treatment on their latest as well. ![]() Yes the re-release came a couple days after Grammy week, a time when the industry tries to remind us of the great releases we missed. In this case, Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions new Deluxe Edition doesn’t seem so opportunistic. Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream re-release fits both of the latter. Sometimes it is to include hit single versions, remixes, or simply just a repackaging to get the hardcore fans to buy it again one year later after the biggest singles have already made it onto the radio. Sometimes an artist has an EP’s worth of new material but doesn’t want to create filler to make a new album. This happened for Maroon 5’s Hands All Over. Sometimes an unlikely one-off single by an artist is released *after* the album, and the record company tacks the song on in hopes that you will buy the full album. Typically an after-the-fact re-release like this is put out there for one of a couple main reasons. Earlier this year one of my favorite albums of 2012 was re-released in a Deluxe Edition. ![]()
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