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2023’s most
Dolly
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Hardy The Mockingbird & the Crow
Big Loud Records • Country
Guest Artists: Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson
Hardy charges into uncharted territory, marrying country and rock in a two-part, 17-track duality showcase, mastering the sounds and themes of both the influences he grew up listening to with the life he grew up living.
15537462 $14.99
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Roddy Ricch Feed Tha Streets
III
Atlantic Mod • Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artists: Lil Durk, Ty Dolla $ign
Roddy Ricch has shared his longanticipated new project, which features the track Twin as well as collaborations with Lil Durk and Ty Dolla Sign.
15588814 $13.99
Quando Rondo & YoungBoy Never Broke Again
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Atlantic Mod • Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artist: Lul Timm
Quando Rondo and YoungBoy
Never Broke Again release their highly anticipated collab mixtape. The 16-track project is a mix of assertive and introspective, giving fans a taste of the versatility both artists have to offer.
15579538 $13.99
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Jacquees
Sincerely for You
Republic Records • R&B
Jacquees releases his third studio album, which features 17 tracks and collaborations with Dreezy, Tory Lanez, 21 Savage, and Future, who also produced the album.
15537487 $13.99
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Lukas Graham 4
(The Pink Album)
Warner Records • Pop/Rock
Guest Artists: Khalid, G-Eazy, Mickey Guyton
The 11-song set details the Danish pop singer-songwriter’s journey of self-discovery over the years, making this his most authentic and reflective work to date.
15579539 $8.99
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Maneskin Rush!
Arista • Pop/Rock
Critically acclaimed four-piece rock band Maneskin releases their highly anticipated new album, featuring the tracks Kool Kids and The Loneliest.
15537482 $12.99
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2023 Grammy Nominee for Best New Artist.
First new album in six years.
Shania Twain
Queen of Me
Republic Records • Country Shania Twain’s sixth original full-length album is her most triumphant-feeling body of work: an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself. Includes the single Waking Up Dreaming 15487527 $13.99 P arental Advisory
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Metro Boomin
Heroes & Villains
Republic Records • Rap/Hip-Hop
Metro Boomin’s long-awaited sophomore album comes with collaborations with Chris Brown, Future, 21 Savage, Young Nudy, Travis Scott, and Mustafa. 15527026 $13.99
Elle King Come Get Your Wife
RCA Records • Country
Guest Artists: Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley
Elle King is a musically and personally fearless woman. With her first country album, she sharpens her gaze, digs into her roots, puts her banjo front and center, and creates a record that’s as alive and electric as she is.
15588819 $13.99
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Iggy Pop
EVERY LOSER
Atlantic • Pop/Rock
Iggy Pop has never showed signs of slowing down in his decades-long career. Here, he adds another chapter with the follow-up to his acclaimed 2019 album, Free 15514435 $12.99
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Russell Dickerson Russell Dickerson
Triple Tigers • Country
Guest Artist: Jake Scott
Russell Dickerson has established himself as a prolific songwriter and powerhouse showman through good old-fashioned performances and eloquent songcraft spiked with spirit. 15496403 $12.99
KIDZ BOP Kids KIDZ BOP 2023
KIDZ BOP • Children’s
The biggest KIDZ BOP album of the year is here! With today’s biggest pop hits, sung by kids for kids, including About That Time; Sunroof; and Late Night Talking. 15551476 $10.99
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DJ Premier Hip Hop 50
Volume 1 EP
Mass Appeal • Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artists: Remy Ma, Rapsody
DJ Premier releases an EP featuring five new tracks and their instrumental counterparts. Included are collaborations with Slick Rick, Lil Wayne, Remy Ma, Nas, Run the Jewels, and more.
15499624 $12.99
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Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 17 Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions
Columbia/Legacy • Pop/Rock
The latest chapter in the highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at Time Out of Mind, Dylan’s midcareer masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release.
15588817 $29.99 2 Discs
AVAILABLE JANUARY 27
Cody Johnson Cody Johnson & the Rockin’ CJB Live
Warner Music Nashville • Country Known for his explosive live shows and electrifying stage presence, Cody Johnson has established a following of passionately loyal fans who regularly sell out shows across the country. His energetic performance is captured on this set.
15496406 $16.99 2 Discs Various
The Rolling Stones GRRR Live!
Mercury Studios • Pop/Rock
Guest Artists: The Black Keys, Gary Clark, Jr.
Featuring guest spots from the Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Taylor, this concert proved to be one of the most memorable shows in the band’s history.
15579624 $22.99 2 Discs
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Soundtrack Spotlight
Various Artists Disenchanted Original Soundtrack
Walt Disney Records • Soundtracks
• Soundtracks Starring Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele as Fanny Brice, this bold new production marks the first time Funny Girl has returned to Broadway since its debut 58 years ago.
15569989 $15.99
Hugh Jackman, the Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning performer, and Tony Award winner Sutton Foster lead an all-star cast in the Broadway revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man
Artists: James Marsden, Idina Menzel
After 15 years, the characters from the film Enchanted return for a second tale. The soundtrack features songs performed by the cast and an original score by Alan Menken.
15524662 $12.99
Alexandre Desplat Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Soundtrack from the Netflix Film
Columbia Records • Soundtracks
Guest Artists: Ewan McGregor, David Bradley
Featuring original songs and score from multiple Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat plus lyrics by Guillermo del Toro.
15537480 $15.99
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2023 Grammy Nominees 6 January 2023 / Midwest Tape / Here for Libraries / 800.875.2785 Beyonce Renaissance Parkwood Entertainment • Pop/Rock CD 1 5207173 $11.99 P arental Advisory Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Interscope Records • Rap/Hip-Hop CD 1 5103760 $13.99 P arental Advisory CD 1 5149720 $13.99 E dited Version Adele 30 Columbia Records • Pop/Rock CD 14 626817 $12.99 Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days New Elektra • Pop/Rock CD 14 398064 $14.99 Nine nominations including Album of the Year. Seven nominations including Album of the Year. Eight nominations including Album of the Year. Seven nominations including Album of the Year.
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Circa Survive Two Dreams
Rise Records • Pop/Rock
Band’s first new music in five years.
Yo La Tengo This Stupid
Matador • Pop/Rock
World
The first new studio album from Yo La Tengo was recorded at their practice space in Hoboken, NJ. The new material captures the collaborative energy and eclecticism that has defined the band’s career as it enters its 40th year.
15494191 $15.99 AVA ILABLE FEBRUARY 10
Weyes Blood And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow
Sub Pop • Pop/Rock
Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release. 15423805 $15.99 The
Chronic Easy Eye Sound • Pop/Rock In 2015, Dan Auerbach entered the studio with Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, and the late Richard Swift to record the Arcs’ debut album. Now, more than seven years later, they have fleshed out the anticipated follow-up. 15471944 $13.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 27
The Bad Ends are a band of veteran musicians from Athens, GA, featuring Bill Berry (R.E.M), Mike Manitone (Five Eight), Christian Lopez (Curly Maple), Geoff Melkonian (Josh Joplin Group), and local guitar shop owner Dave Domizi.
15475175 $14.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 20
The seventh full-length record from Philadelphia’s Circa Survive. The 12-track release comprises two individual six-song EPs.
15483372 $15.99
Fucked Up One Day
Merge Records • Pop/Rock
The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the past, from towering concept albums to 12-hour performances, so it might be a surprise that their sixth studio album is their shortest to date.
15496405 $15.99
AVA ILABLE JANUARY 27
Dave Rowntree Radio Songs
Cooking Vinyl Limited • Pop/Rock
Guest Artists: juliyah
Dave Rowntree, a founding member of the British group Blur, releases his first solo album. It features the tracks Devil’s Island; London Bridge; and Downtown 15494195 $13.99
AVA ILABLE JANUARY 20
Live Albums
Journey Live in Concert at Lollapalooza
Frontiers Records S.R.L . • Pop/Rock
In 2021, Journey took to the stage for a headlining set at Lollapalooza. That performance, which featured 20 of the band’s most iconic hits, comes home on this CD release.
15494192 $18.99
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
Live at the Greek Theater 2019
BFD • Pop/Rock
Ringo Starr takes to stage with a band featuring Greg Rolie (Santana), Steve Lukather (Toto), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), and Colin Hay (Men at Work). 15466971 $16.99
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Arcs Electrophonic
The Bad Ends The Power and the Glory New West Records • Pop/Rock
Isabelle Faust • Dvorak Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65 Harmonia Mundi
Almost 20 years ago, Isabelle Faust and Jiri Belohlavek established a new milestone in the discography of Dvorák’s Violin Concerto. The coupling inaugurated the violinist’s long collaboration with Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras.
15518692 $21.99
AVAILABLE JANUARY 27
Daniel Barenboim • Schumann
The Symphonies
Deutsche Grammophon
A couple years after Maestro Daniel Barenboim’s successful complete Brahms Symphonies, he now presents a live recording of the four Schumann Symphonies with his orchestra from concerts at Berlin’s Philharmonie and in the Staatsoper.
15483386 $29.99 2 Discs
Various Artists • Beethoven for Three Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastorale’ and Op. 1, No. 3
Sony Classical
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma’s new recording challenges the traditional boundary between chamber and orchestral repertoire to offer the listener two very different sides of the composer using the same three voices.
15464246 $15.99
BBC Concert Orchestra • Poulenc Les Animaux Modeles; Sinfonietta Chandos
When this album was recorded in March 2022, no one could have imagined that it would be Bramwell Tovey’s last recording. He shall be very sorely missed. Tovey and the BBC Concert orchestra capture the wit and charm of Poulenc’s music perfectly.
15464229 $21.99
Space Time Continuo • Pachelbel Magnificat Fugues
Analekta
The entire program is 15 fugues taken from the 95 such works written by Pachelbel. Montréal’s baroque bass band brings bass instruments into the spotlight by emphasizing the various textures and functions of baroque continuo instruments.
15462720 $20.99
Daniil Trifonov • Bach The Art of Life
Deutsche Grammophon
Daniil Trifonov returns with an album dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach, exploring the scientific, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of Bach’s cosmos, his faith, family, and world.
15423836 $24.99 2 Discs Deluxe Edition
Mao Fujita • Mozart
The Complete Piano Sonatas
Sony Classical
A significant undertaking for any pianist, this project also marks the rising piano star’s Sony Classical debut. These sonatas were recorded in Berlin. With innate musical sensitivity and naturalness, Fujita lets every note speak with vitality, wit, and charm.
15464247 $61.99 5 Discs Deluxe Edition
Time for Three • Letters for the Future
Deutsche Grammophon
Comprises two technically demanding concerti exploring the breadth and depth of Time for Three’s artistry. For this project, they collaborated with the inimitable Philadelphia Orchestra.
15038093 $13.99
Mitsuko Uchida • Beethoven Diabelli Variations
DECCA
Revered pianist Mitsuko Uchida presents a brand new recording of this Everest of the piano repertoire. This long-awaited cornerstone of her discography was recorded at Snape Maltings.
15014904 $13.99
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Sam Smith
Gloria
Capitol • Pop/Rock
Following the global success of the unstoppable single Unholy featuring pop diva Kim Petras, Sam Smith will be releasing their fourth studio album. The 13-track record will be Sam’s boldest statement.
15475403 $13.99
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Fitz & the Tantrums • Let Yourself
Free
Elektra • Pop/Rock
After a three-year wait, Fitz and the Tantrums are back with their fifth studio album. The band’s new album includes the single Moneymaker
15469071 $16.99
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Kid Cudi • Entergalactic
Republic Records • Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artists: Ty Dolla Sign, 2 Chainz
Kid Cudi takes fan Entergalactic with his (final?) tenth studio and eighth solo album. The music inspired the new Netflix special while framing the story of two young, ambitious artists falling in love.
15475405 $13.99 Parental Advisory
Ava Max
Diamonds & Dancefloors
Atlantic • Pop/Rock
Global pop sensation Ava Max’s sophomore album is a fiercely personal release that features the upbeat and confident new single Maybe You’re the Problem
15177127 $14.99
AVAILABLE JANUARY 27
Run the Jewels • RTJ CU4TRO
RBC Records • Rap/Hip-Hop
Guest Artists: Pharrell Williams, Lin-Manuel Miranda Run the Jewels have reimagined their hit album, RTJ4, through the prism of Latin America. This features appearances and remixes from Bomba Estereo, Danny Brasco, Iggor Cavalera, and a special appearance from Lin-Manuel Miranda.
15485009 $16.99
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Gucci Mane • So Icy Boyz 22
Atlantic MOD • Rap/Hip-Hop
Gucci Mane is back with his latest New 1017 compilation. This includes 22 new tracks from Gucci and members of the New 1017 roster, including Big Scarr, BiC Fizzle, Enchanting, Hotboy Wes, and songs from brand-new signee Sett.
15486637 $24.99 Parental Advisory
Wisin & Yandel • La Última Misión
Sony Music Latin • Latin
Guest Artists: Rauw Alejandro, Ozuna Wisin & Yandel’s hit digital release makes its way onto CD with appearances from Sean Paul, J Balvin, Rosalia, Prince Royce, Ozuna, and much more.
15480704 $12.99 2 Discs
Ozuna • Ozutochi
Aura Music Corp • Latin
Guest Artists: Pedro Capo, Omega
One of the hottest stars in Latin music is back with a brand new album featuring collaborations with Danny Ocean, J Balvin, Arcangel, and more.
15459330 $10.99
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Christina Aguilera • Aguilera
Sony Music Latin • Latin
Guest Artists: Becky G, Nathy Peluso
Twenty-two years after releasing her first Spanishlanguage album, Christina Aguilera delivers her second. It includes collaborations with Becky G, Ozuna, and more. This digital release is now available on CD.
15464245 $13.99
Margo Price • Strays
Loma Vista Recordings • Country
In just three remarkable solo albums, Margo Price has cemented herself as a force in American music and a generational talent. Her fourth full-length album presents a clear-eyed mission statement delivered in blistering rock n’ roll.
15466931 $14.99
AVAILABLE JANUARY 13
Ashley McBryde • Ashley McBryde
Presents: Lindeville
Warner Nashville • Country
Guest Artists: Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark
Ashley McBryde set out with a group of her favorite co-writers to work up a project they had no intention of ever recording or releasing. What emerged is raw, honest, specific portraits of small-town America.
15464275 $16.99
Nicki Minaj • Queen Radio Volume 1
Republic Records • Rap/Hip-Hop
Features Nicki Minaj’s biggest hits to date, all on one album, including her latest Billboard Hot 100 number one, Super Freaky Girl
15486654 $18.99 2 Discs
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Black Eyed Peas • Elevation
Epic • Pop/Rock
Black Eyed Peas take their sound to new heights with their ninth studio album. Along with the singles Simply the Best and Don’t You Worry, there are appearances from Anitta, Shakira, Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee, and more.
15487511 $13.99
Peppa Pig • Peppa’s Club The Album
MNRK Music • Children’s
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed sophomore album Peppa’s Adventures, lighting the Internet on fire for having a better Pitchfork rating than Donda 15466972 $15.99
Wakanda
Forever - Music from and Inspired By Hollywood Records • Soundtracks
The soundtrack to one of 2022’s most anticipated films also has music fans talking, as it features Rihanna’s first new solo track since 2016, Lift Me Up. 15485010 $11.99
Sara Bareilles • Into the Woods 2022 Broadway Cast Recording
Craft Recordings • Soundtracks
Featuring an enchanting score by legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, the album turns the world of fairy tales upside down and teaches us the responsibility that comes with getting what you want.
15464279 $17.99
John Williams • The Fabelmans
Original Motion Picture Score
Sony Classical • Soundtracks
Fifty years after their first film, John Williams and Steven Spielberg team up for their 31st project together. Here, Williams creates music that combine the tradition of classic films while drawing from great classical composers.
15487513 $13.99
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