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7When a show's title incorporates the year it was released -- more or less. Forward-dating shows by using next year is somewhat common, especially if the release is late in the year. Back-dating is less heard of, since it implies the show is falling behind the times; usually annual titles get incremented in case production slips behind schedule.
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9Affixing a contemporary year to the title of a familiar story often implies a SettingUpdate, though not necessarily.
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11Fans will often do this with SimilarlyNamedWorks and {{Recycled Title}}s. Since those are {{Retronym}}s rather than official, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Main.AnnualTitle#33965 they may or may not have their place here.]] This wiki uses this practice a lot, so be careful of annual wikiwords: Make sure to check on the actual page, where the title will usually be customized to add parentheses around the year.
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13Subtrope to TitleByYear and WorkInfoTitle, being a number that's also the year the work was released. It can overlap with AdvancedTech2000 when a work is made/released just before a new millennium.
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20* The second season of ''Animation/GGBond'', ''Martial Arts 2008'', is a bit of a variation in that the season actually premiered in 2007.
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24* Creator/DCComics' ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' '89-'94.
25* DC also brought back its [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] AnthologyComic ''Showcase'' back in TheNineties as a series of 12-issue miniseries titled "Showcase '94", "Showcase '95", etc.
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29* ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' and ''Film/Godzilla2000''.
30* Film/HammerHorror ''Film/DraculaAD1972''.
31* ''Film/Dracula2000'' (Released in Europe as ''Dracula 2001'').
32* ''Amityville 1992'', the alternative title for ''Film/AmityvilleItsAboutTime''.
33* Movie studios in TheThirties used Annual Titles more often for formula musical comedies:
34** ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1935'', ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1937'' (Warner Bros.) Released in 1932, 1934 & 1936, respectively. Spoofed by the title of the Creator/TexAvery short ''WesternAnimation/GoldDiggersOf49''.
35** ''Film/BroadwayMelodyOf1936'', ''Broadway Melody of 1938'', ''Broadway Melody of 1940'' (MGM)
36** ''The Big Broadcast of 1936'', ''The Big Broadcast of 1937'', ''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' (Paramount)
37* ''Where the Boys Are '84''
38* ''Film/{{Airport}} 1975'', ''Airport 1977'' and ''The Concorde--Airport '79''
39* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' is a somewhat unusual example of this trope; the film's world premier at Carnegie Hall in December 1999 just barely misses the year listed in the title, but its IMAX release and wide release both took place in 2000.
40* Fictional example: In ''Film/SullivansTravels'', ''Ants in Your Plants of 1939'' is one of a string of successful comedy pictures directed by Sullivan. Sullivan now wants to [[TomHanksSyndrome film something more serious and artistic]], though the studio would rather have him make ''Ants in Your Plants of 1941''.
41* ''Film/TheHollywoodRevueOf1929'', whose would-be follow-up ''The Hollywood Revue of 1933'' suffered from a TroubledProduction and after {{Schedule Slip}}ping and {{Retool}}ing was finally released in 1934 as ''Hollywood Party''.
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45* The 1960's revival of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'': ''Dragnet 1967'', ''Dragnet 1968'', ''Dragnet 1969'' and ''Dragnet 1970''. However, the MadeForTVMovie ''Dragnet 1966'' was not broadcast until 1969.
46* The infamous ''Series/{{Galactica 1980}}''
47* When CBS revived Goodson-Todman's ''Series/MatchGame'' in 1973, it was suffixed with "'73," as opposed to calling it "The New Match Game" (which some TV listings actually had). The year in the title changed accordingly each December 31st until the end of the CBS run in 1979. Averted with the concurrent nighttime syndicated run, which was called "Match Game PM" without any year suffix.
48* ''Series/Wheel2000'', which debuted on CBS in 1997, was a children's version of ''Series/WheelOfFortune.''
49* ''[[Series/{{Password}} Password Plus]]'' was originally to be named ''Password '79.''
50* ''Magazine/MotorWeek'' did this for a while in the late '80s/early '90s.
51* Creator/TheBBC's ''Film [Year]'' programme, which has changed its name every year since 1972.
52* NBC Sports had this for its NFL studio coverage (pregame, halftime and postgame) when they had the AFC broadcasting rights; it started in 1977 as ''NFL '77'' with Bryant Gumbel, and continued with him as ''NFL '78'', ''NFL '79'', ''NFL '80'' and ''NFL '81''. When Bryant left in 1982 to become a host of ''Series/{{Today}}'' alongside Jane Pauley, Len Berman assumed the host job for ''NFL '82'' and ''NFL '83''. In 1984, Len gave way to Bob Costas for the last three seasons of this format, as ''NFL '84'', ''NFL '85'' and ''NFL '86'' (the last one had the 6-feathered NBC peacock we know today and that has been around for over 3.5 decades). Finally, in 1987, this titling was dropped, and NBC's NFL studio coverage became ''NFL Live!'' until 1995; the last three seasons of NBC's AFC rights (1995, 1996 and 1997) had the pregame show (and all of a Sunday gameday) simply called ''The NFL on NBC''.
53* ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' on ABC w/the late, great Creator/DickClark had this for a time in the 60s, with such titles as ''AB '68'' and ''AB '69'' (the ''AB'' in those titles was also in the ABC network logo font, a reference to that fact that ''American Bandstand'' was on ABC).
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57* The song "Freedom '90" by Music/GeorgeMichael, named this way to differentiate it from the (otherwise completely unrelated) song "Freedom" which he made in 1984.
58* Similarly to the George Michael example, the 1990 remix of Music/DavidBowie's 1975 song [[Music/YoungAmericans "Fame"]] was titled "Fame '90" to differentiate it from the original.
59* ''Beatles '65'' was Capitol Records' U.S. release culled mainly from the Parlorphone album ''Music/BeatlesForSale.''
60* Music/RobThomas has Real World 09 to seperate it from his [=MB20=] song with the same name.
61* ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' (1969) has a track called "Cambridge 1969", which was indeed recorded at Cambridge University in 1969.
62* The song "1969" from Music/TheStooges' SelfTitledAlbum ''Music/{{The Stooges|Album}}'' (1969) and "1970" from the same band's follow-up album ''Music/{{Fun House|Album}}'' (1970).
63* The Music/DanielJohnston album ''1990'' was released in that very year.
64* Music/TalkingHeads' debut album, released in 1977, was appropriately titled ''Music/TalkingHeads77''.
65* The Ventures' 1964 update of their 1960 breakthrough hit "Walk, Don't Run" was titled "Walk, Don't Run '64". One of their live albums titled their cover of "Apache" as "Apache '65" like the Davie Allan cover (see below) despite the fact that it was more-or-less the same arrangement they recorded in 1963.
66* Davie Allan and the Arrows released two instrumental covers in 1965: "Apache '65" and "Moon Dawg '65". The former had a later update in 1973 as "Apache '73".
67* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}' final single, a 1999 re-recording of "Carpet Crawlers" from ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', was appropriately titled "The Carpet Crawlers 1999".
68* Music/NewOrder released a new version of "Blue Monday" remixed by Music/QuincyJones in 1988, appropriately titled "Blue Monday 1988". For the GreatestHitsAlbum ''[=(the best of) NewOrder=]'' and the RemixAlbum ''[=(the rest of) NewOrder=]'' in the mid-'90s, several more remixes were put out with the suffixes "-94" and "-95" (including another remix of "Blue Monday"). One of these remixes, "1963-95", later backed away from this trope when it was retitled "[=Nineteen63=]" for its single release.
69* Music/ThePolice's final single, a re-recording of the ''Music/ZenyattaMondatta'' opener "Don't Stand So Close to Me" for the 1986 GreatestHitsAlbum ''Every Breath You Take: The Singles'', was released with the title "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86". Likewise, a re-recording of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" from the same sessions was given the "'86" suffix when it belatedly saw a release on the DTS and SACD versions of ''Every Breath You Take: The Classics'', the 1995 updated version of ''The Singles''.
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73* In the UK, TheChristmasAnnual usually does this, forward-dated to the new year, as in ''Series/DoctorWho Annual 1985'' (which was released for Christmas 1984).
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77* When [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors The Legion of Doom]] made their Wrestling/{{WWE}} comeback in 1998, they were renamed "Legion Of Doom 2000". In reality, the only things that had been updated for the new millennium were their trademark shoulder pads, which now had new and improved SpikesOfVillainy, and their manager, having swapped Wrestling/PreciousPaulEllering for [[MsFanservice Sunny]].
78* In Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999, Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Vampiro teamed up with [[Music/InsaneClownPosse The Insane Clown Posse]] to form [[PowerStable Deadpool]]. Later, Raven got back with the clowns and joined Wrestling/BallsMahoney to form Deadpool 2000 in ICP's [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]].
79* ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[=WrestleMania=] XVI''.
80* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Jay and Mark at one time teamed as The Briscoes 2000 in reference to the year they debuted in, in order to distinguish themselves from the unrelated Briscos, a more established brother TagTeam.
81* The Spoiler 2000 was probably not the 2000th wrestler [[LegacyCharacter to wear the mask]], but he did take it up in the year 2000.
82* The last iteration of [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the nWo]] in WCW was referred to as [=nWo=] 2000.[[/folder]]
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85* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' core sets are all named after their year (forward-dated), a trend that began with 2009's ''Magic: The Gathering 2010 Core Set'', or ''Magic 2010'' for short.
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89* The TropeMaker in musical theatre was the ''Ziegfeld Follies'', whose first edition was titled ''Follies of 1907''. It set the standard for titling musical revues to the extent that many revues which never would become a series would carry the current year in title, and most series of revues were referred to with annual titles whether they actually used them or not. Ziegfeld produced a new edition of the ''Follies'' each year until 1924, but it and all of its [[FollowTheLeader imitators]] stopped coming out yearly by the late 1920s.
90* The ''George White's Scandals'' series of revues averted this for a long time, using headings along the lines of "Nth Annual Edition" even after it started skipping years, but its final stage outing used the subheading "1939-40 Edition." There was also a now-lost movie titled ''George White's 1935 Scandals''.
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94* ''VideoGame/TimePilot '84''
95* ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}} '88'', also known as ''Galaga '90'' on its American Platform/TurboGrafx16 release and as ''Galaga '91'' on the Platform/GameGear.
96* ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} '93'' & '' '94''
97* ''Hector '87''
98* ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew '98''.
99* The ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' game on the Platform/GameBoy went by the WorkingTitle ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94''.
100* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' was originally meant to be ''Franchise/StreetFighter '89'', but Capcom settled for the new title because it played nothing like ''Street Fighter''.
101* ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL''. Every year, it comes out with the next year's year in the title.
102** And the ''VideoGame/FIFASoccer''/''VideoGame/NHLHockey'' games. The ''Madden'' bit was parodied by one webcomic by having the changes for a sequel consist of updating the number... and that's it.
103* The ''UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}}'' games are an interesting case. Pictured above is ''NASCAR Racing 2002 Season'', developed by Papyrus. However, they developed non year-labeled titles for 8 years prior, and their next title, ''NASCAR Racing 2003 Season'', would be their last, as after EA got the exclusive license to produce NASCAR games, Papyrus went on to make ''VideoGame/{{iRacing}}''.
104** EA themselves released ''98'', ''99'', ''2000'', ''2001'', ''Thunder 2002'', ''Thunder 2003'', ''Thunder 2004'', ''2005: Chase for the Cup'', ''06: Total Team Control'', ''07'', ''08'', and ''09''. (however just like their other games each of EA Sports' NASCAR games is set a year prior to the year in the title. For example NASCAR 98 actually takes place (& was released) during the 1997 season)
105** Their license then expired and was picked up by Eutechnyx, who developed ''The Game: 2011'', ''Inside Line'', ''The Game: 2013'' (as an update to ''Inside Line''), ''14'', ''15'', and '''15 Victory Edition''.
106** This trope was then averted with the next 5 games (''Heat Evolution'', then ''Heat''s ''2-5''), which were developed by 704 Games. For 2021 onward, however, Motorsport Games received the license, and their first title, ''NASCAR 21: Ignition'', will play it straight once again.
107* ''VideoGame/{{Colin McRae Rally}}'' games play with this trope, with each of the entry indicate its release year. ''2.0'' for 2000 release, and ''3'' for 2003 release. ''04'', despite indicating 2004 release, was actually released in September 2003. Its SequelSeries ''VideoGame/DiRT'' stopped doing this trope.
108* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' did this every year from ''The King of Fighters '94'' to ''The King of Fighters 2003''. Since the next game was not released in 2004, the main series stopped using this, though it didn't stop ''King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2'' from being retitled ''The King of Fighters 2006'' in the U.S.
109* Most 2K Sports games, with [=2Kn=] as an abbreviation for (2000 + n). They are usually released in the preceding year, though. This was started by Creator/{{Sega}} Sports, the company's predecessor.
110* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' is a variant; the year it was released (2000) ''was'' a Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac.
111* ''Super Volleyball'' was followed by ''Super Volley '91'', retitled ''Power Spikes'' outside Japan. There was going to be a ''Super Volley '94'' after that for the Platform/NeoGeo, but it became ''Power Spikes II'' by the time it was released in 1995.
112* ''VideoGame/JustDance 2014'', ''2015'', ''2016'', ''2017'', ''2018'', ''2019'' and ''2020''.
113* The first ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' game to be released on the Playstation 2 was originally to be called ''Gran Turismo 2000'' for its year of release. However, development went on longer than expected and the game was released in 2001 as ''Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec''.
114* ''VideoGame/FormulaRacer 2012'', released in that same year (the previous game didn't have the year in the title).
115* ''[[VideoGame/OutRun OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast]]'', which was indeed released in 2006. It may have been named as such to mark it being the 20th anniversary of the arcade title.
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119* The WartimeCartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43'' starring WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck.
120* The 1935 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/GoldDiggersOf49" with Porky Pig and Beans the Cat parodies Warner Bros.' annual "Gold Diggers" film series (see above), except instead of figurative gold diggers in the 1930s it features literal gold diggers in the 1840s.
121* The first four episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s fourth season each have "2000" at the end of its name as the season originally aired that year. In order, they are titled "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E1TheToothFairysTats2000 The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E2CartmansSillyHateCrime2000 Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E3Timmy2000 Timmy 2000]]", and "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E4Quintuplets2000 Quintuplets 2000]]". There's also the HalloweenEpisode "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E11HellOnEarth2006 Hell on Earth 2006]]", aired that year and referring to the massive party of the same name thrown by Satan.
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125* Microsoft likes to do this with its software.
126** Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows Me (a bit less on-the-nose than the others, with "Me" being [[FunWithAcronyms an acronym]] for "Millennium Edition"), plus all versions of Windows Server.
127** Microsoft Office 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 for PC; 98, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2016 and 2019 for Mac. Some versions don't follow the annual pattern, such as 3.0 (sometimes known as Office 92), 4.0 (1993), 4.2 (1994) and XP (sometimes known as Office 2002) for PC and X (2001) for Mac.
128** Visual Studio 97, .NET 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. The aversions are 6.0 (1998) and .NET (2002).
129* Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
130** For a brief period of time in the '90s, EPCOT was officially named "Epcot '94" and "Epcot '95", likely to more directly invoke its "permanent World's Fair" aesthetic.
131** Animal Kingdom opened with an attraction called "The 1998 Dinosaur Jubilee", which lasted through 2000 and was renamed accordingly until being replaced with the more permanent Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama.
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