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* In 2001, Music/{{Bush}} were planning the release of their album ''Golden State'' and its lead single "Speed Kills". Then UsefulNotes/NineEleven happened and they changed the title to "The People That We Love".

* Canadian FolkMusic[=/=]CountryMusic icon Music/StompinTomConnors released his debut album ''The Northlands' Own Tom Connors'' in 1967. A few years later the album was reissued on a different label, but apparently someone [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard]] the album's original title and mistakenly called it ''Northlands Zone''.

* Canadian FolkMusic[=/=]CountryMusic icon Stompin' Tom Connors released his debut album ''The Northlands' Own Tom Connors'' in 1967. A few years later the album was reissued on a different label, but apparently someone [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard]] the album's original title and mistakenly called it ''Northlands Zone''.

* The 1995 UsefulNotes/PlayStation game ''ESPN Extreme Games'' was renamed ''1Extreme'' when rereleased as a Greatest Hits title, both because the ESPN license had expired and to make the connection to its sequel, ''2Extreme'', more obvious.

* The Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' was originally titled ''Ten Little Niggers'' in the UK. The initial US edition used the now-current title, but subsequent paperback reprints from 1964 to 1986 used ''Ten Little Indians''. The original US title was adopted for the UK reprints starting in 1985 and is now the official title. The translations that used the original UK title are slowly but surely switching to less offensive titles; the most recent one was the French version in 2020(!) and some languages have yet to change.

* Music/ChrisCornell's ''Euphoria Morning'' was later reissued as ''Euphoria Mourning'' - the latter was his originally intended title, but he was convinced to alter it because "mourning" and "morning" are homonyms, and listeners who heard the album title mentioned on the radio would be more likely to assume it was "morning". He'd come to regret this decision, so when the idea of a reissue came up, he belatedly had the title changed.

* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series was originally called ''Dragon Warrior'' [[MarketBasedTitle in the US]] due to a competing copyright from [[TabletopGame/DragonQuest a tabletop game]]. Once the legal issues were eventually cleared up, the series adopted its Japanese title worldwide and all remakes and rereleases are now under the ''Quest'' branding (with each main-series game other than the first gaining an additional subtitle on top of that).

* ''VideoGame/{{KGB}}'' was retitled "''Conspiяacy: Starring Donald Sutherland''" when it was re-released on CD, with a bunch of new content featuring [[Creator/DonaldSutherland said actor]].

* Creator/KrisStraub's sci-fi webcomic was initially named ''Starshift Crisis''. When he realized this could lead to a copyright problem (with the video game ''[[VideoGame/StarshiftTheZaranLegacy Starshift: The Zaran Legacy]]''), he renamed it ''Star'''slip''' Crisis''--and even changed every in-comic mention of "starshift" to "starslip", using alternate universes to justify this OrwellianRetcon. Later, the story arc "The End of the End" resulted in another huge CosmicRetcon and an ArtShift with it, so the title was changed again to just ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}''.

* British {{Edutainment}} show ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' was called ''Police Stop!'' in its first episode which aired 7 September 1994 (although EditedForSyndication versions retroactively call it ''Police Camera Action!'' and add the episode title "Danger! Drivers Ahead"), then from 20 December 1994, it became ''Police Camera Action!''. This was partially because the show wanted to be more than just an adaptation of ''Series/PoliceStop'' with presenter links (the original first episode of this show now known as Police Camera Action ''had'' Police Stop! producer Bill Rudgard involved), and [[ScrewedByTheLawyers due to legal reasons]] - the original ''Police Stop!'' VoiceOverClipShow was to continue on in 1995 as its own separate series.

* An interesting case can be found with Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s ''Electric Café''. When the album was in production, it was given the WorkingTitle ''Techno Pop'', and early ads for it used this name; however, upon release in 1986, it was retitled to ''Electric Café'' for unspecified reasons. Later, when the album was re-released as part of the band's 2009 remastering campaign, its title was reverted back to ''Techno Pop'', essentially both inverting this trope and playing it straight simultaneously.

* ''Film/TheGreatSantini'' failed to attract audiences on initial release. Warner Brothers executives thought the title was to blame, as it suggested a circus story rather than the film's actual subject (a drama about a military family). They renamed it ''The Ace'' (after that title tested the best among other possibles, ''Sons and Heroes'' and ''Reaching Out'') but it didn't perform any better. The producer, Charles Pratt, raised enough money to rerelease the film in New York City under the original title, and that title seems to have stuck now.

* Music/PeterGabriel's first four albums were all self-titled, with the idea of them being treated like different issues of a magazine. Because of how confusing this got, [[FanNickname fans started referring to the first three]] as ''Music/{{Car}}'', ''Music/{{Scratch}}]'', and ''Music/{{Melt}}'' after their cover art, while the fourth was retitled ''Music/{{Security}}'' in the United States and Canada thanks to ExecutiveMeddling at the behest of Gabriel's US distributor, Creator/GeffenRecords. When these same four albums were reissued in 2002 as part of a remastering campaign for Gabriel's full backlog to promote his then-new album ''Up'', they were respectively retitled ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''4'' (though the ''Security'' title remained in place in the US & Canada until 2010). The fan nicknames for the first three would eventually become AscendedFanon with the half-speed vinyl reissues in 2015, which officially referred to the first three albums in associated written material by their colloquial monikers (the fourth reverted back to the American ''Security'' title in the same campaign).

* Music/PeterGabriel's first four albums were all self-titled, with the idea of them being treated like different issues of a magazine. Because of how confusing this got, [[FanNickname fans started referring to the first three]] as ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1977 Car]]'', ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1978 Scratch]]'', and ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1982 Melt]]'' after their cover art, while the fourth was retitled ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1982 Security]]'' in the United States and Canada thanks to ExecutiveMeddling at the behest of Gabriel's US distributor, Creator/GeffenRecords. When these same four albums were reissued in 2002 as part of a remastering campaign for Gabriel's full backlog to promote his then-new album ''Up'', they were respectively retitled ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''4'' (though the ''Security'' title remained in place in the US & Canada until 2010). The fan nicknames for the first three would eventually become AscendedFanon with the half-speed vinyl reissues in 2015, which officially referred to the first three albums in associated written material by their colloquial monikers (the fourth reverted back to the American ''Security'' title in the same campaign).

* ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}} originally premiered in January 1915 as ''The Clansman'', after the Thomas Dixon novel it was based on. It was changed to its current title shortly before it premiered in New York a few months later.

* Music/PeterGabriel's first four albums were all self-titled, with the idea of them being treated like different issues of a magazine. Because of how confusing this got, [[FanNickname fans started referring to the first three]] as ''Music/{{Car}}'', ''Music/{{Scratch}}'', and ''Music/{{Melt}}'' after their cover art, while the fourth was retitled ''Music/{{Security}}'' in the United States and Canada thanks to ExecutiveMeddling at the behest of Gabriel's US distributor, Creator/GeffenRecords. When these same four albums were reissued in 2002 as part of a remastering campaign for Gabriel's full backlog to promote his then-new album ''Up'', they were respectively retitled ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''4'' (though the ''Security'' title remained in place in the US & Canada until 2010). The fan nicknames for the first three would eventually become AscendedFanon with the half-speed vinyl reissues in 2015, which officially referred to the first three albums in associated written material by their colloquial monikers (the fourth reverted back to the American ''Security'' title in the same campaign).

* In 1990, ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' [[http://platypuscomix.com/hollywood/magiccauldron.html was theatrically re-released]] as ''Taran and the Magic Cauldron'' to try to get more ticket sales and hide the DarkerAndEdgier elements of the film that led to it [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing]] during its initial release. It didn't work, and when the film made its home video debut in 1998, the original title was reinstated.

" ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' was originally called ''The Family Circle'' when it debuted (referring to the circular panel border), but was forced to change its name few months later due to objections from a magazine of the same circle.

* The Creator/AgathaChristie novel ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' was originally titled ''Ten Little Niggers'' and then ''Ten Little Indians'', both of which had to be changed due to the ValuesDissonance regarding the titles in question.

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' was retitled ''Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure'' in season 2

* Creator/AndrewHussie's webcomic ''Whistles'' was initially titled ''The Starlight Calliope'' when it was uploaded to Team Special Olympics. After scoring a publishing deal with Slave Labor Graphics, it was rechristened to its current name, although a collected volume made the original title its subtitle.

* Music/PeterGabriel's first four albums were all self-titled, with the idea of them being treated like different issues of a magazine. Because of how confusing this got, [[FanNickname fans started referring to the first three]] as ''Car'', ''Scratch'', and ''Melt'' after their cover art, while the fourth was retitled ''Security'' in the United States thanks to ExecutiveMeddling at the behest of Gabriel's US distributor, Creator/GeffenRecords. When these same four albums were reissued in 2002 as part of a remastering campaign for Gabriel's full backlog to promote his then-new album ''Up'', they were respectively retitled ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''4''. The fan nicknames for the first three would eventually become AscendedFanon with the half-speed vinyl reissues in 2015, which officially referred to the first three albums in associated written material by their colloquial monikers (the fourth reverted back to the American ''Security'' title in the same campaign).

* {{Retronym}}: When a work's title is retroactively changed because it shares its name with something else."

* {{Retronym}}: When a work is retroactively given a subtitle to bring it in line with later installments.[[/index]]