What's the difference between album and track?

Album


Definition:

  • (n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
  • (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
  • (n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (2) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
  • (3) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (6) Yes, the third album was a success but we've worked so hard on this one."
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
  • (8) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (9) Visconti – who has now produced 13 Bowie albums – said he was surprised with the decision to make Where Are We Now?
  • (10) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (11) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
  • (12) And when the album from which those songs are taken, The Next Day , was released last week it went straight to No 1 on iTunes.
  • (13) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
  • (14) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
  • (15) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
  • (16) In the lead-up to her new album, Sheezus, Allen has repeatedly complained about pressure when picking radio singles.
  • (17) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (18) Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) Stossich, 1904 is redescribed, figured and recorded for the first time in Blennius pavo.
  • (19) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (20) Gaga: "This award means even more to me because I worked so hard on this album for so long and I think about all the songs that I wrote and all the years that went by and all the rejection and how my fans were the first people to believe in me."

Track


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
  • (n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
  • (n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
  • (n.) A road; a beaten path.
  • (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
  • (n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  • (n.) The permanent way; the rails.
  • (n.) A tract or area, as of land.
  • (v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
  • (v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (3) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
  • (4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (5) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (6) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
  • (7) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
  • (8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
  • (9) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
  • (10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
  • (11) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
  • (12) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
  • (13) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
  • (14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
  • (15) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (16) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
  • (18) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
  • (19) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
  • (20) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.