| 1 | An album title that makes reference to the album's position in the chronological order of album releases by the artist. This generally only counts full-length studio albums; the numbers are usually (but not always) off if you count [=EPs=] and live albums. In some cases, this will only be one title among other non-numbered titles, but in other cases there are multiple, often consecutive, numbered titles. |
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| 3 | The main reason for this is to give a sense of weight, history, context and inevitability to the albums. The name suggests (but does not guarantee) that the album is not just a lone work, but part of a wider body that will likely tie together consistent themes. It echoes the cantos and books of epic poetry, and thus has a great deal of appeal to musicians influenced by these sources, although it [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools can come across as pretentious or facetious if handled poorly]]. |
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| 5 | Some albums simply have the band's name followed by a number (in which case this overlaps with NumberedSequels), but others are more clever with it, using a phrase related to the number. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Sister-trope to SelfReferentialTrackPlacement, when a ''song'''s title makes reference to its place in the tracklist. |
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| 9 | ---- |
| 10 | |
| 11 | !!Examples |
| 12 | %%Examples should be sorted alphabetically by artist name within each category. |
| 13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:First Albums]] |
| 16 | * Music/TheBeeGees – ''Bee Gees' 1st'' [[note]]Technically their third album, but this was their first international release. The first two albums were released only in Australia and are considered CanonDiscontinuity.[[/note]] |
| 17 | * Music/BigStar – ''#1 Record'' |
| 18 | * Colosseum[[note]](Finnish DoomMetal band; not to be confused with the British ProgressiveRock band)[[/note]] – ''Chapter 1: Delirium'' |
| 19 | * Music/{{Faces}} – ''First Step'' |
| 20 | * David Gates – ''First'' |
| 21 | * Ella Henderson – ''Chapter One'' |
| 22 | * Music/{{Hurt}} – ''Vol. I'' [[note]]Technically they had two releases prior to this, but ''Vol. I'' was the first mainstream studio album.[[/note]] |
| 23 | * Liam Payne - ''[=LP1=]'' |
| 24 | * Music/SanHolo – ''album1'' |
| 25 | * Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe - ''Album One'' |
| 26 | * Music/TravelingWilburys – ''Volume 1'' [[note]]Their second album was called ''Volume 3''.[[/note]] |
| 27 | * Johnny Winter – ''First Winter'' |
| 28 | * Music/ZZTop – ''ZZ Top's First Album'' |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Second Albums]] |
| 32 | * Music/AphexTwin – ''Selected Ambient Works Volume II'' |
| 33 | * Music/TheBeatles – ''The Beatles' Second Album'' (second Capitol US album) |
| 34 | * Music/BoyzIIMen – ''II'' |
| 35 | * Music/LeeBrice – ''[[Letters2Numbers Hard 2 Love]]'' |
| 36 | * Music/TheCalling – ''Two'' |
| 37 | * Music/CamperVanBeethoven – ''II & III'' (The title is something of a joke, although the band have commented that, because it was recorded over two different stretches of time in the same year, they think of it as both their second ''and'' third album) |
| 38 | * Colosseum[[note]](the same one as before)[[/note]] – ''Chapter 2: Numquam'' |
| 39 | * Darker My Love – ''2'' |
| 40 | * Earshot – ''Two'' |
| 41 | * ''Music/ElectricLightOrchestra II''[[note]]The full title is actually of the group's second American album. In Britain it is simply called ''ELO 2'', which also qualifies.[[/note]] |
| 42 | * Music/{{Foreigner|Band}} – ''Double Vision'' |
| 43 | * Music/{{Garbage}} – ''Version 2.0'' |
| 44 | * Joey + Rory – ''Album Number Two'' |
| 45 | * The Kinleys – ''II'' |
| 46 | * Music/{{Hurt}} – ''Vol. II'' |
| 47 | * Last In Line – ''II'' |
| 48 | * ''Music/LedZeppelin II'' |
| 49 | * Music/LegiaoUrbana - ''Dois'' |
| 50 | * Music/LynyrdSkynyrd – ''Second Helping'' |
| 51 | * Music/PaulMcCartney – ''[=McCartney=] II'' [[note]]This was his second true "solo" album, i.e. not including releases by The Beatles or Wings, or ''Music/{{RAM}}'', which was a collaboration with his wife Linda.[[/note]] |
| 52 | * Music/MeatPuppets – ''Meat Puppets II'' |
| 53 | * ''Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica II'' |
| 54 | * Music/TheProtomen – ''Act II: The Father of Death'' |
| 55 | * Music/PublicImageLtd – ''Second Edition'' ([[DoubleMeaningTitle Not only the second album released, but also the second version of the album and the band.]]) |
| 56 | * ''Music/{{Queen}} II'' |
| 57 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} – ''The Rolling Stones No. 2'' (second UK album) |
| 58 | * ''Music/RunTheJewels 2'' |
| 59 | * ''Michael W. Smith 2'' |
| 60 | * Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe - ''The 2¢ Show'' |
| 61 | * Music/{{Steppenwolf}} – ''Steppenwolf the Second'' |
| 62 | * ''Music/{{Styx}} II'' |
| 63 | * ''Music/BillyTalent II'' |
| 64 | * Music/{{TD Cruze}} – ''The Savage Beast 2'' |
| 65 | * ''Music/TommyTutone 2'' |
| 66 | * ''Music/VanHalen II'' (''Van Halen III'', however, is their 11th, and the name is due to [[CanonDiscontinuity Gary Cherone]] being the third singer) |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Third Albums]] |
| 70 | * Music/AlterBridge – ''AB III'' |
| 71 | * Music/BigStar – ''Third/Sister Lovers'' |
| 72 | * Music/{{Boston}} – ''Third Stage'' |
| 73 | * Colosseum[[note]]The same one as the other two.[[/note]] – ''Chapter 3: Parasomnia'' |
| 74 | * Music/CypressHill – ''III (Temples of Boom)'' |
| 75 | * Deep Forest – ''III: Comparsa'' |
| 76 | * Music/DemonHunter – ''The Triptych'' |
| 77 | * Music/ElectricLightOrchestra – ''On the Third Day'' |
| 78 | * Music/EnVogue - ''[=EV3=]'' |
| 79 | * Music/GaelicStorm – ''Tree'' (as in, three-in-an-Irish-accent) |
| 80 | * HAIM - ''Women In Music Pt. III'' [[note]]their third album overall, but there's technically no ''Women In Music Pt. II'' or ''Women In Music Pt. I''[[/note]] |
| 81 | * The James Gang – ''Thirds'' |
| 82 | * Music/TheJacksonFive – ''Third Album'' |
| 83 | * ''Music/LedZeppelin III'' |
| 84 | * Music/MarcyPlayground – ''[=MP3=]'' (also something of a PunBasedTitle, because, you know, Platform/MP3) |
| 85 | * Roger Miller – ''The 3rd Time Around'' |
| 86 | * Joe Nichols – ''III'' (actually his fourth album, but his obscure, independent first album is CanonDiscontinuity) |
| 87 | * Music/{{Portishead}} – ''Third'' |
| 88 | * ''Music/RunTheJewels 3'' |
| 89 | * Sash! – ''Trilenium'' |
| 90 | * Music/{{Santana}} – ''Santana III''[[note]]Possibly officially just titled ''Santana''. But everyone says ''Santana III'' to avoid confusion with their ''first'' album, which was also just named ''Santana''.[[/note]] |
| 91 | * The Script – ''#3'' |
| 92 | * Shiny Toy Guns – ''III'' |
| 93 | * Music/{{Slipknot}} – ''Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)'', casting their demo ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' into CanonDiscontinuity. |
| 94 | * Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe - ''Mk. III'' |
| 95 | * Music/StinkingLizaveta – ''III'' |
| 96 | * Music/{{Sugababes}} – ''Three'' |
| 97 | * ''Music/BillyTalent III'' |
| 98 | * Music/YngwieMalmsteen – ''Trilogy'' |
| 99 | * Music/ZZTop – ''[[GratuitousSpanish Tres Hombres]]'' |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Fourth Albums]] |
| 103 | * Bachman-Turner Overdrive – ''Four Wheel Drive'' |
| 104 | * Music/{{Beyonce}} – ''4'' |
| 105 | * Music/BlackSabbath – ''Black Sabbath Vol. 4''[[note]]originally intended to be called ''Snowblind''[[/note]] |
| 106 | * Bloc Party – ''Four'' |
| 107 | * Music/BoltThrower - ''The [=IVth=] Crusade'' |
| 108 | * Music/JCole – ''4 Your Eyez Only'' |
| 109 | * Music/CypressHill – ''IV'' |
| 110 | * Music/DiamondRio – ''IV'' |
| 111 | * E-Type – ''Euro IV Ever'' |
| 112 | * Music/{{Foreigner|Band}} – ''4'' |
| 113 | * Music/{{Godsmack}} – ''IV'' |
| 114 | * Music/{{Kamelot}} – ''The Fourth Legacy'' |
| 115 | * Music/MirandaLambert – ''Four the Record'' |
| 116 | * Music/LegiaoUrbana - ''As 4 Estações'' (The Four Seasons) |
| 117 | * Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews - ''Fore!'' |
| 118 | * Music/OneDirection – ''Four'' |
| 119 | * Brazilian band Paralamas do Sucesso's live album ''D'', because fourth letter = fourth release |
| 120 | * Music/RunTheJewels - ''[=RTJ4=]'' |
| 121 | * Sash! – ''S4!Sash!'' |
| 122 | * Music/{{Seal}} – ''Seal IV'' |
| 123 | * Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe - ''The Vice Quadrant'' |
| 124 | * Music/CatStevens – ''Catch Bull at Four'' (actually his sixth album but, by pure coincidence, his fourth with both Island Records and A&M Records) [[note]]Bonus: "Changes IV" is the fourth track of his fifth album, ''Teaser and the Firecat''.[[/note]] |
| 125 | * Music/StoneTemplePilots – ''No. 4'' |
| 126 | * Music/{{Stratovarius}} – ''Fourth Dimension'' |
| 127 | * Music/{{Toto}} – ''Toto IV'' |
| 128 | * Music/TheVerve – ''Forth'' |
| 129 | * Wishbone Ash – ''Wishbone Four'' |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Fifth Albums]] |
| 133 | * J.J. Cale – ''5'' |
| 134 | * Music/{{Haken}} - '''''V'''''''ector'' (a subtle example, noted in [[https://www.loudersound.com/features/we-never-thought-we-would-be-releasing-virus-during-a-pandemic-haken-revisit-the-cockroach-king-on-their-boldest-album-yet this article]]) |
| 135 | * Music/{{HammerFall}} – ''Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken'' |
| 136 | * Music/HollywoodUndead – ''Five'' (often stylized as ''V'') |
| 137 | * Music/LegiaoUrbana - ''V'' |
| 138 | * Music/LittleMix - ''[=LM5=]'' |
| 139 | * Music/{{Live}} – ''V'' (fifth album under the name Live) |
| 140 | * Music/{{Maroon 5}} – ''V'' |
| 141 | * Music/SteveMillerBand – ''Number 5'' |
| 142 | * Music/RelientK – ''Five Score and Seven Years Ago'' |
| 143 | * Music/{{Slipknot}} – ''.5: The Gray Chapter'' |
| 144 | * Music/SpocksBeard – ''V'' |
| 145 | * Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe - ''Quintessential'' |
| 146 | * Music/SymphonyX – ''V: The New Mythology Suite'' |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Sixth Albums]] |
| 150 | * Music/TheBeatles – ''Beatles VI'' (see: Second Album) |
| 151 | * Black Label Society – ''Hangover Music, Vol VI'' |
| 152 | * Music/DreamTheater – ''Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence'' |
| 153 | * Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch – ''Got Your Six'' |
| 154 | * Music/{{Haken}} - '''''Vi'''''''rus'' (same interview as above) |
| 155 | * Tom Paxton – ''6'' |
| 156 | * Music/SteeleyeSpan has ''Now We Are Six'', which has a double meaning: not only is it their sixth album, but their first album recorded with a six-member lineup. (It's also a ShoutOut to the children's book of the same name by Creator/AAMilne.) |
| 157 | * Iris – ''Six'' |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Seventh Albums]] |
| 161 | * Music/{{Apocalyptica}} – ''7th Symphony'' |
| 162 | * Music/PatBenatar – ''Seven the Hard Way'' |
| 163 | * Music/GarthBrooks – ''Sevens'' |
| 164 | * Music/{{D}} – ''7th Rose'' (named such because it was the band's seventh anniversary; the fact that it was also their seventh album was an afterthought) |
| 165 | * Music/EnriqueIglesias – ''7'' |
| 166 | * Music/InExtremo – ''7'' |
| 167 | * Music/IronMaiden – ''Seventh Son of a Seventh Son'' |
| 168 | * Music/LambOfGod – ''VII: Sturm und Drang'' (presumably, this is discounting the sole album they made under the name Burn the Priest) |
| 169 | * Music/YngwieMalmsteen – ''The Seventh Sign'' |
| 170 | * Music/TheMoodyBlues – ''Seventh Sojourn'' (which is actually the eighth Moody Blues album, but only the seventh by the then-current lineup) |
| 171 | ** The result of a ContinuityReboot of a British Invasion band that reinvented themselves as [[ProgressiveRock Classical Rock]]. |
| 172 | * Brazilian band O Rappa had ''7x'', though it was their seventh ''release'' (two of those being live albums) |
| 173 | * Music/TheReverendHortonHeat – ''Lucky 7'' |
| 174 | * Music/BobSeger – ''Seven'' |
| 175 | * Music/GeorgeStrait – ''#7'' |
| 176 | * Music/{{Sugababes}} – ''Sweet 7'' |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Eighth Albums]] |
| 180 | * Music/{{Anthrax}} – ''Volume 8: The Threat Is Real'' |
| 181 | * Music/{{Bathory}} – ''Octagon'' |
| 182 | * J.J. Cale – ''#8'' |
| 183 | * Music/DreamTheater – ''Octavarium'' |
| 184 | * Music/{{Incubus}} – ''8'' |
| 185 | * Music/KaiserChiefs - ''Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album'' |
| 186 | * Katie Melua - ''Album No.8'' |
| 187 | * Music/TheMoodyBlues – ''Octave'' (see above) |
| 188 | * Music/{{Styx}} – ''Pieces of Eight'' |
| 189 | [[/folder]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | [[folder:Ninth Albums]] |
| 192 | * Music/HerbAlpert and the Tijuana Brass – ''Alpert's Ninth'' |
| 193 | * Music/ProcolHarum – ''Procol's Ninth'' |
| 194 | * Music/JasonAldean - ''9'' |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Tenth Albums]] |
| 198 | * Music/TraceAdkins – ''X'' |
| 199 | * J.J. Cale – ''Number Ten'' |
| 200 | * Fates Warning – ''FWX'' |
| 201 | * Music/IronMaiden – ''The X Factor'' |
| 202 | * Music/{{Marillion}} – ''[[Letters2Numbers Radiat10n]]'' |
| 203 | * Music/SpocksBeard – ''X'' |
| 204 | * Music/KylieMinogue – ''X'' |
| 205 | * The 69 Eyes – ''X'' |
| 206 | * Music/CharleyPride - ''Charley Pride's 10th Album'' |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Eleventh Albums and After]] |
| 210 | [[AC:Eleventh Albums]] |
| 211 | * Music/ChrisBrown - ''[[DoubleMeaningTitle 11:11]]'' |
| 212 | * Music/IronMaiden – ''Virtual XI'' |
| 213 | * Music/MartinaMcBride – ''Eleven'' |
| 214 | * Music/MetalChurch – ''XI'' |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[AC:Twelfth Albums]] |
| 217 | * Music/NealMcCoy — ''XII'' |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[AC:Thirteenth Albums]] |
| 220 | * Anvil – ''This Is Thirteen'' (Yeah, they managed to use this trope while continuing to have alliterative IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming) |
| 221 | * Music/{{The Cure|Band}} – ''4:13 Dream'' (as for the "4" in the title? It refers to the fact that the record marked the first time that the band had been a quartet since the 1990 remix album ''Mixed Up'') |
| 222 | * Music/{{Rage|Band}} – ''XIII'' |
| 223 | * Music/{{Megadeth}} – ''[[Letters2Numbers TH1RT3EN]]'' |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[AC:Fourteenth Albums]] |
| 226 | * Music/{{Tankard}} - ''Vol(l)ume 14'' |
| 227 | * Music/{{Toto}} – ''Toto XIV'' |
| 228 | * {{Music/Voivod}} - ''Katorz'' ("Katorz" is an XtremeKoolLetterz spelling of "Quatorze", which is GratuitousFrench for "Fourteen" - the total includes one LiveAlbum and two [=EPs=]) |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[AC:Twenty-first Albums]] |
| 231 | * Music/EltonJohn – ''21 at 33'' (33 was Elton's age at the time. The total includes live albums and compilations.) |
| 232 | * Music/{{Rage|Band}} – ''21'' |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[AC:Thirtieth Albums]] |
| 235 | * ''Music/MerleHaggard Presents His 30th Album'' |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Artists with Numerous Examples]] |
| 239 | * Almost every album by Music/{{Chicago|Band}} is simply titled with the band's name followed by the number. The band shortened their name from "Chicago Transit Authority" to "Chicago" between their first and second albums, and these are both [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] according to the band's name at the time. |
| 240 | * Music/{{Danzig}} did this for several years. After their first SelfTitledAlbum, their next six studio albums were all numbered in various ways: ''Danzig II:Lucifuge'', ''Danzig III:How the Gods Kill'', ''Danzig 4'', ''Danzig 5:Black Acid Devil'', ''6:66 Satan's Child'', and finally ''Danzig 777:I Luciferi''. Following that, they abandoned the numbering with their subsequent albums, starting with ''Circle of Snakes'' |
| 241 | * Soul-Junk's entire catalogue is like this, but the system takes some explaining. His first album was titled ''1950''. Every subsequent full-length album was numbered counting up from there, while his EP's have been numbered counting backwards from 1950. |
| 242 | * Russian nu-metal band ''Slot'' has also followed this trend, with all of their Russian-language album releases - with the exception of their anniversary compilation album ''#SLOT15'' - taking on a chronological number: "Slot 1", "2 войны" (Two Wars), "Тритини" (Trinity), "4Ever", "F5", "Шестой" (Sixth) and Septima. |
| 243 | * Every full album from Morning Musume. Some examples are: First Time, 4th Ikimasshoi!, No. 5, Rainbow 7, [=Sexy8Beat=], and 10 My Me. |
| 244 | ** Music/HelloProject albums in general have this; Berryz Koubou, C-ute and [=S/mileage=] currently all do the same, and many of H!P's former soloists did as well until leaving the label. |
| 245 | * Music/LedZeppelin's first three albums: ''[[Music/LedZeppelin1969 Led Zeppelin I]]'', ''Music/LedZeppelinII'', ''Music/LedZeppelinIII''.... The fourth album is commonly referred to as ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' but it really [[NoTitle has no title at all.]] |
| 246 | * Music/MeatLoaf and his ''Bat Out Of Hell'' trilogy, which is linked principally by the involvement of songwriter Jim Steinman. The three ''Bat'' albums were not consecutive, however; Meat Loaf released four albums between ''Bat'' 1 and 2, and two more between 2 and 3. |
| 247 | * Music/NineInchNails and its "Halo numbers", which are attached in chronological order to both its album and its single releases. |
| 248 | * Irish folk group The Chieftains titled nearly all of their first ten studio albums ''The Chieftains __'', with the accompanying numeral for each. (The lone exception was their sixth album, ''Bonaparte's Retreat''.) |
| 249 | * Music/{{Autechre}}'s discography features, to name just a few examples from many, the ''Tri Repetae'', ''[=LP5=]'' and ''Exai''(Roman numerals for 11) albums and the ''[=EP5=]'' and ''Move of Ten'' EP's. |
| 250 | * Focus have ''Focus II'' (though it's better known under its original title ''Moving Waves''), ''Focus III'' and ''Focus 8'', their second, third, and eighth studio albums - well, the title of ''Focus 8'' apparently renders a collaboration album with PJ Proby non-canon. Somewhat interestingly, all three of these albums also have title tracks. |
| 251 | * Soft Machine have ''Volume Two'', ''Third'', ''Fourth'', ''Fifth'', ''Six'', and ''Seven''. |
| 252 | * Music/BradPaisley has two examples in ''Part II'' and ''5th Gear''. |
| 253 | * [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel She & Him]]'s "main sequence" of albums are numbered ''Volume One'', ''Volume Two'', and ''Volume Three'' (so far). There's ''A Very She & Him Christmas'' between the second and third, but they don't seem to count that. They also ditched the pattern for their 2014 album ''Classics''. |
| 254 | * Music/ScottWalker's ''Scott 2'', ''Scott 3'' and ''Scott 4'' |
| 255 | * Baroness' first two [=EP=]s are named ''First'' and ''Second'', while their first album, ''A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk'' is sometimes known as ''Third'' |
| 256 | * Music/KanyeWest's first three albums are sequential chronological theme naming. First was ''The College Dropout'', then when it was apparent he'd be a continuing artist came ''Late Registration'' (someone still going to school, at least), then came ''Graduation''. What comes after ''Graduation''? If you answered a ''Good-Ass Job'', you'd be half right. The CallBack title was the working title for the album ''808's and Heartbreak'', but during the album's creation, the theme was dropped on its last leg in favor of something a bit more literal. |
| 257 | * Every album by both the Bronx and their mariachi alter-egos Mariachi El Bronx is self-titled, and generally referred to by their number. They've released two as Mariachi El Bronx and they've announced the upcomign release of IV for the main band. Their reasoning is that they would rather have the focus be on the album art rather than a title. |
| 258 | * Bob James' ''One'', ''Two'', ''Three'', ''[=BJ4=]'', ''Lucky Seven'', ''12''. There are also a couple of StealthPun examples: his fifth album (''Heads'') features a nickel on its cover (a nickel being a five-cent piece), while his sixth album (''Touchdown'') features a football on its cover (a touchdown being worth six points in football). |
| 259 | * Music/DonWilliams' first three albums were named ''Volume 1'', ''Volume 2'', and ''Volume 3''. |
| 260 | * '70s funk group Brass Construction numbered its first six albums ''I'' through ''VI''. |
| 261 | * Gamma's ''Gamma 1'', ''Gamma 2'', ''Gamma 3'' and ''Gamma 4''. |
| 262 | * Music/DownLow's third album was called ''Third Dimension'', and the ones after that ''The 4th Level'' and ''Down Low V / Adrenaline''. The latter was rejected by their record company, however, and the replacement album no longer followed the trend. |
| 263 | * With Alice Glass as singer, Music/{{Crystal Castles|Band}} released a self-titled album, followed by ''II'' and ''III''. Despite it being her debut album as a solo artist, Alice Glass titled her first album after leaving the group ''Prey//IV'', with the subtitle being a reference to the previous Crystal Castles albums. Meanwhile, Crystal Castles' ''Amnesty (I)'' was their fourth album overall, but first with vocalist Edith Frances. |
| 264 | * While Music/PeterGabriel's first four albums were all [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]], various international releases appended numerals to them to help people tell them apart. The American and Japanese releases of the [[Music/{{Scratch}} second]] and [[Music/{{Melt}} third]] albums respectively retitled them ''Peter Gabriel II'' and ''Peter Gabriel III'', and the Japanese releases of the [[Music/{{Car}} first]] and [[Music/{{Security}} fourth]] albums called them ''Peter Gabriel I'' and ''Peter Gabriel IV''. The Japanese release of ''Music/{{So}}'' additionally added the subtitle ''Peter Gabriel V'' to keep up the pattern. This eventually carried over to the 2002 remasters, which respectively retitled each of the first four albums ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''4'' (in North America, ''4'' kept its original retitle for that region, ''Security''). |
| 265 | * [[Music/AsILayDying Tim Lambesis]]'s Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger tribute side project Austrian Death Machine's second and third albums were named ''Double Brutal'' and ''Triple Brutal''. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 269 | * The above-mentioned British ProgressiveRock band Colosseum is a ''band'' example, in which the band broke up and was later relaunched under the name "Colosseum II". Each iteration of the band recorded several albums. |
| 270 | * {{Doujin}} group Music/{{IOSYS}} has a StealthPun version of this trope: Their ninth Franchise/TouhouProject arrange album is ''Touhou Hyousetsu Kashuu'', an album devoted completely to the {{leitmotif}} of fan-favorite character Cirno. Where does the StealthPun example come in? Cirno is associated with [[Memes/TouhouProject the meme "(9)"]]. |
| 271 | * Music/{{America}}'s ''Hat Trick'' is another StealthPun example; it's their third album, and "hat trick" is a sports term that denotes a player or team accomplishing a feat three times. (It also follows the band's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming convention of beginning several album titles with the letter "h".) |
| 272 | * Music/{{Chickenfoot}} released an album titled ''Chickenfoot III.'' It is their second album. |
| 273 | * {{Music/The Megas}} have a variation on this, where each album is labeled "DLN-(number)" (for [[Franchise/MegaMan Doctor Light Number]], the original Robot Master serial number format). Notably, they include demoes, singles and the like among this count, so their debut album ''Get Equipped'' is DLN-02 due to coming after their initial homemade demo. The only exception is ''Scent Blasters'', a digitally released song to promote Epic Scents' Mega Man air fresheners, which came between DLN-07 (the ''Fly on a Dog'' single) and DLN-08 (''History Repeating: Red''). |
| 274 | * Music/MorbidAngel does a variation on this trope. Instead of using numbers, the first letter of the album reflects which number of album it is, A being 1 B being 2 etc. |
| 275 | * ''Monty Python's Previous Record'' and possibly ''Another Monty Python Record''. |
| 276 | * Music/{{Adele}}'s studio albums are named ''19'', ''21'', ''25'', and ''30'', for the ages she was when she started recording them. |
| 277 | * Music/{{Weezer}} subverts this by having several albums named simply ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Weezer]]'', commonly referred to by the color most predominant on their cover (''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'', for example). Some see each self-titled album as representing a new chapter in their musical career. |
| 278 | * Music/SixFeetUnder released an album titled ''13''. It is their sixth album. |
| 279 | ** Black Sabbath also released an album titled ''13'', but it was their nineteenth album. |
| 280 | * Both Music/{{Madness|Band}} and Music/{{James}} have released albums called ''7'' -- their second and fourth albums respectively. The actual reason? Both are seven-piece bands. |
| 281 | * While Iron Maiden already has two above, the ContinuityNod on ''The Final Frontier'' comes on the TitleTrack, "Satellite 15... The Final Frontier". |
| 282 | * Radio/RoyDMercer, a PrankCall series created by Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, was released on seven albums titled ''How Big a Boy Are Ya?'' volumes 1 through 7 between 1997 and 2000. After that, they broke away from the theme. |
| 283 | * Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge very narrowly averted this with their second album. Originally, it was going to be titled "II." However, just before release, the album's title was changed to "Rated R." |
| 284 | * Music/BuffaloSpringfield's third and final album was titled ''Last Time Around''. |
| 285 | * Music/CBlock's third album was initially announced as ''Changes'', but didn't actually made it to stores (presumably due to the eurorap fad being over). When it was finally made available for streaming/download a decade later, it was titled ''The Last Album''. |
| 286 | * Music/{{Negativland}} have issued highlights from their radio show ''Over The Edge'' as albums, numbered Vols 1-9 (so far). The earliest ones were issued as cassettes, and when they were later transferred to CD, the first was too long to fit, so part of it was split off and combined with some additional material to create a Volume 1 1/2. |
| 287 | * All albums by Pg. 99 follow the chronological format "Document No. X" - sometimes there's a subtitle, but more often there isn't. |
| 288 | * Ghost Of Vroom's first official release was the 2020 EP ''Ghost Of Vroom 2'', followed by the full length album ''Ghost Of Vroom 1'' the next year - the album was completed first, but the band held off its release for a year in the hopes concert venues would start opening again after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and they could support the album with a tour. |
| 289 | * The Desert Sessions, a collaborative project helmed by Josh Homme of Music/{{Kyuss}} and Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge fame, has all of its releases numbered as "''Vol(ume) [insert number here]''", followed by the title, the exact format of which varies from EP to EP (the first five volumes were numbered with Roman numerals - the rest with digits). |
| 290 | * Music/{{Take That|Band}} released an album called ''III'', which was their seventh album. The title refers to it being their first record as a trio. |
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