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The most common form of Album Title Drop, a title track is a song on a musical album which shares its name with the album itself. This can be done before or after the fact; as long as the album and one song on it share the same name, it counts.

Most albums that aren't self-titled do this, but it’s such a common (and effective) naming convention that it’s something of an Undead Horse Trope; because if it ain’t broke…

Note: In order for the example to count, the title of the song has to be an exact match to the album’s title. If the titles are only a partial match, it’s not an example. The one exception is if the song or album title contains a “the,” “a,” or any other common article which is present in one title but not the other.

Naturally, a Sub-Trope of Title Drop; also compare Self-Titled Album, where this is done using the band’s name, and Album Title Drop, where the song contains the album's title in its lyrics - both of which can overlap with Title Track. Could also overlap with pretty much any other naming convention. Contrast Non-Appearing Title (the subversion of this tropenote ) and the most obvious exception to this trope, No Title.

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PLEASE LIST ALL EXAMPLES ALPHABETICALLY BY MUSICIAN! This will make examples easier to find. Since this will be a long list, please avoid listing aversions and subversions. Also, please list only the shared title. Listing examples such as “(ALBUM TITLE) has the song (SONG TITLE WHICH IS THE SAME AS ALBUM TITLE)” is too redundant.

Musicians that have used this trope include:

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     Numbered Musicians 

     A 
  • ABBA
  • Paula Abdul
  • AC/DC
    • High Voltage (though not the original Australian album...)
    • T.N.T. (...but this Australia only record, which also has a title track - included in the overseas High Voltage)
    • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
    • Let There Be Rock
    • Highway to Hell
    • Back in Black
    • For Those About to Rock
    • Flick of the Switch
    • Fly on the Wall
    • The Razors Edge
    • Ballbreaker
    • Stiff Upper Lip
    • Black Ice
    • Rock or Bust
  • Ace of Base
    • The Sign
  • Adam and the Ants
  • Adam Ant
  • Adam Lambert
    • For Your Entertainment
    • Beg for Mercy
    • Better Than I Know Myself
  • Aerosmith
    • Toys in the Attic
    • Draw the Line
    • Permanent Vacation
    • Get a Grip
    • Nine Lives
    • Just Push Play
  • Alex Band
    • We've All Been There
  • Alice Cooper
    • Killer
    • School's Out
    • Billion Dollar Babies
    • Music of Love
    • Welcome to My Nightmare
    • Lace and Whiskey
    • From the Inside
    • Da Da
    • Trash
    • Hey Stoopid
    • Brutal Planet
    • Dragontown
    • Dirty Diamonds
    • Paranormal
  • Alice in Chains
    • Dirt
    • Black Gives Way To Blue
    • The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
  • The All-American Rejects
    • Move Along
    • Mona Lisa (When the World Comes Down)
    • Kids in the Street
  • All Pigs Must Die
    • God Is War
  • Allele
    • Next to Parallel
  • Alter Bridge
    • One Day Remains
    • Blackbird
  • America
    • Hat Trick
    • Hideaway (tracks titled "Hideaway Part I" and "Hideaway Part II")
    • Your Move
    • Here & Now (though only as a bonus track on versions sold at Best Buy)
  • Amon Amarth
    • Fate Of The Norns
    • Twilight Of The Thunder God
  • Amorphis
    • Elegy
    • Tuonela
    • Far from the Sun
    • Silent Waters
    • Skyforger
  • Tori Amos
    • Little Earthquakes
    • Strange Little Girl from Strange Little Girls
    • Scarlet's Walk
    • The Beekeeper
    • Abnormally Attracted to Sin
    • Night of Hunters
    • Gold Dust
    • Unrepentant Geraldines
  • Anaal Nathrakh
    • The Codex Necro
    • In the Constellation of the Black Widow
    • Desideratum
  • Anberlin
    • Never Take Friendship Personal
  • Angel Haze
    • Dirty Gold
  • Anthrax
    • Among The Living
  • A Perfect Circle
    • Eat the Elephant
  • Aphex Twin
    • Come to Daddy
  • Apocalyptica
    • Worlds Collide
  • Arcade Fire
    • Neon Bible
    • The Suburbs
    • Everything Now is the title of three songs on the album of the same name.
  • Arctic Monkeys
    • Suck It and See
  • Asian Kung-Fu Generation
    • I'm Standing Here
    • World World World
    • Mada Minu Ashita ni
    • Magic Disk
    • Wonder Future
  • Atreyu
    • Lead Sails (and a Paper Anchor) from the album Lead Sails Paper Anchor.
  • Autechre
    • Gantz Graf
  • Autopsy
    • Severed Survival
    • Mental Funeral
    • Macabre Eternal
  • Avantasia
    • The Scarecrow
    • The Wicked Symphony
    • Angel of Babylon
    • Ghostlights
    • Moonglow
  • Avenged Sevenfold (when there's one, it's always the opening track, except for the third one):
    • Waking the Fallen
    • Nightmare
    • Hail to the King
    • The Stage
  • Aviators
    • A Song That Never Ends
  • Axis (Los Amigos de Geisha)
    • El Funk de la Ciudad
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     B 

     C 

     D 

     E 

     F 
  • Fall Out Boy
    • Save Rock and Roll
    • American Beauty/American Psycho
  • Fferyllt
    • Dance Of The Druids
  • British BoyBand Five had "Invincible" from the 1999 album of the same name.
  • fun.
    • Some Nights (There's two here; a two-and-a-quarter-minute intro that plays before the longer single song.)
  • A Flock of Seagulls
    • The Story Of A Young Heart
    • The Light At The End Of The World
  • Florence + the Machine has Between Two Lungs (the deluxe edition of debut album Lungs) and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
  • The Flower Kings
    • Retropolis
    • Stardust We Are
    • The Rainmaker
    • Adam and Eve
    • Paradox Hotel
  • Foals:
    • Total Life Forever
  • John Fogerty
    • Centerfield
  • Foo Fighters
    • In Your Honor
    • Concrete and Gold
    • Medicine at Midnight
    • Subverted with "The Colour and the Shape", which ended up as a B-side and only appears in special editions.
  • Fountains of Wayne: "Traffic and Weather"
  • Franz Ferdinand
    • You Could Have It So Much Better
    • The opening track of Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is "Right Action", which delivers a full Album Title Drop on the chorus.
    • Always Ascending

     G 

     H 

     I 

     J 
  • Janet Jackson
  • Michael Jackson
  • Jamiroquai
    • Emergency on Planet Earth
    • The Return of the Space Cowboy has a track called "Space Cowboy" which delivers a full Album Title Drop.
    • Travelling Without Moving
    • Dynamite
    • Rock Dust Light Star
  • Janelle Monáe
  • Jesca Hoop
    • Hunting My Dress
    • The House That Jack Built
    • Memories Are Now
  • Jessie J
    • Who You Are
    • Alive
    • Sweet Talker
  • Jethro Tull
    • Aqualung
    • Thick as a Brick
    • War Child
    • Minstrel in the Gallery
    • Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
    • Songs from the Wood
    • Heavy Horses
    • Under Wraps
    • Rock Island
    • Roots to Branches
  • Elton John
    • Made in England
  • Jack Johnson
    • Sleep Through the Static
    • To the Sea
  • Grace Jones
    • Slave To the Rhythm
  • JPEGMAFIA
    • black ben carson
    • 'All My Heroes are Cornballs''
  • Judas Priest
    • Rocka Rolla
    • Stained Class
    • Hell Bent For Leather
    • Screaming For Vengeance
    • Ram It Down
    • Painkiller
    • Jugulator
    • Nostradamus
    • Redeemer Of Souls
  • Julien-K
    • Death to Analog
    • We're Here With You
  • Jupiter
    • Classical Element

     K 

     L 
  • Lacuna Coil
    • Comalies
    • Shallow Life
    • In a Reverie is a subversion - the associated song is simply titled "Reverie".
  • Lady Gaga:
    • The Fame
    • Born This Way
  • Lana Del Rey:
    • Born to Die
    • Ultraviolence
    • Honeymoon
    • Lust for Life
  • Cyndi Lauper
    • True Colors
  • The only Led Zeppelin example would be "Houses Of The Holy"... that in a subversion, was not on that album, instead being postponed for Physical Graffiti.
  • The Left Banke
    • Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina (due to its Either/Or Title, there's two title tracks)
  • The Lemonheads
    • It's A Shame About Ray
  • John Lennon
  • Lights
    • The Listening
    • Siberia
  • Limp Bizkit has Gold Cobra, and a borderline example in "Hot Dog" from Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
  • The Linda Lindas has "Growing Up".
  • Lindsey Stirling
    • Shatter Me
  • Linkin Park
    • One More Light
  • Little Boots
  • Liz Phair
    • Whip-Smart
    • White Chocolate Space Egg(although the album is called whitechocolatespaceegg)
    • Somebody's Miracle
  • Lisa Loeb
    • Firecracker
  • Logic
    • Young, Broke, and Infamous
    • Young Sinatra: Welcome to forever. Borderline Example as the title track is just called Welcome to Forever
    • Under Pressure
    • The incredible true story
    • Everybody
    • YSIV
    • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    • No Pressure. Full title is No Pressure Intro
  • Kenny Loggins
    • Vox Humana
  • The Lonely Island
    • Incredibad
    • Turtleneck & Chain
  • Lyriel
    • Autumnatales
    • Prisonworld
    • Paranoid Circus
    • Leverage

     M 

     N 
  • Napalm Death
    • Scum
    • From Enslavement to Obliteration
    • Diatribes
    • Inside the Torn Apart
    • The Code is Red...Long Live the Code
    • Smear Campaign
    • Time Waits for No Slave
  • Diego Navas y la Utopía
    • Llanto
  • Michael Nesmith
    • Nevada Fighter
    • Rays
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
    • In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  • Joanna Newsom
  • Ne-Yo
    • Because of You
  • Nick Cave:
    • From Her to Eternity
    • Your Funeral... My Trial
    • The Good Son
    • "I Let Love In"
  • Nickelback
    • Feed the Machine
  • Nightwish
    • Imaginaerum
    • Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  • Nine Inch Nails:
    • The Downward Spiral
    • The Fragile
    • With Teeth
    • Ghosts I-IV takes the trope to its Logical Extreme; every single song on the album is named by its track number followed by Ghosts and either I, II, III, or IV. note 
  • No Doubt
    • Tragic Kingdom
    • Rock Steady
    • Push and Stove
  • Norah Jones
    • Come Away With Me
    • Not Too Late
    • Little Broken Hearts
  • *NSYNC
    • No Strings Attached
    • Celebrity

     O 
  • Oasis
    • (What's the Story) Morning Glory? has "Morning Glory", which delivers a full Album Title Drop.
    • Be Here Now
    • The Masterplan
  • Obituary
    • Slowly We Rot
    • Cause of Death
    • The End Complete
    • World Demise
    • Back From The Dead
    • Inked In Blood
  • Billy Ocean
    • Suddenly
  • The Offspring
    • Smash
    • Americana
    • Conspiracy of One
    • Days Go By
  • Oingo Boingo
    • Only A Lad
    • Nothing to Fear
    • Good for Your Soul
    • Dead Man's Party
  • Oliver!
    • Good Morning Starshine
  • Opeth
    • Blackwater Park
    • Deliverance
    • Heritage
  • Origami Angel
  • Ozzy Osbourne
    • Diary of a Madman
    • Bark at the Moon
    • The Ultimate Sin
    • No More Tears
    • Black Rain
    • Variant: "Let Me Hear You Scream"

     P 
  • Pain of Salvation
    • The Perfect Element
    • Remedy Lane
    • Scarsick
    • Road Salt
  • Panopticon
    • Kentucky
    • Autumn Eternal
  • Pantera
    • Metal Magic
    • Projects in the Jungle
    • I am the Night
    • Power Metal
    • Cowboys From Hell
    • The Great Southern Trendkill
  • Parabelle
    • Reassembling the Icons
  • Pearl Jam
  • Pendulum
    • Hold Your Colour
  • Peterpan (they decided to stop doing this once they become Noah)
    • Taman Langit
    • Bintang di Surga
  • Pere Ubu
    • The Modern Dance
    • Dub Housing
    • Worlds in Collision
    • The Story of My Life
  • Peter Schilling
    • Fehler Im Sistem (German)/Error In The System (English)
    • 120 Grad (German)/Things To Come (English)
    • The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime)
  • Peter Tork
    • Stranger Things Have Happened
  • Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
    • Gioventù brucata (Burned youth)
    • Fuori dall'Hype (Over the hype)
  • Pink Floyd:
  • Placebo
    • Without You I'm Nothing
    • Sleeping with Ghosts
    • Meds
    • Battle for the Sun
    • Loud Like Love
  • Poets of the Fall
    • Carnival of Rust
    • Revolution Roulette
    • Temple of Thought
    • Jealous Gods
  • Porcupine Tree
    • On the Sunday of Life
    • Up the Downstair
    • The Sky Moves Sideways
    • Signify
    • Stupid Dream
    • Lightbulb Sun
    • Deadwing
    • Fear of a Blank Planet
    • The Incident
  • Porno For Pyros
  • Primus
    • Frizzle Fry
    • Pork Soda
    • The Antipop (though the album name is without "The")
  • PVRIS
    • White Noise

     Q 
  • Queen
    • A Kind Of Magic
    • The Miracle
    • Innuendo
    • Made in Heaven
    • Subversion: "Sheer Heart Attack" was not ready for the eponymous album, and only shows up on the later News of the World (Queen).

     R 

     S 
  • Sabaton
    • Metalizer
    • Primo Victoria
    • Attero Dominatus
    • The Art Of War
    • Coat Of Arms
    • Carolus Rex
    • The Last Stand
    • The Great War
  • Adam Sandler
    • What the Hell Happened To Me?
  • Savage Garden
    • Affirmation
  • Savant:
    • Ninür
    • Vario
    • Overworld
    • ISM
    • Alchemist
    • Overkill
    • Orakel
    • Zion
  • Schwarz Stein:
    • New vogue children
  • Seeed:
    • New Dubby Conquerors
    • Musik Monks
    • Next...!
  • Sepultura
    • Morbid Visions
    • Beneath the Remains
    • Arise
    • "Roots Bloody Roots"
    • Against
    • A-Lex has "A-Lex I" through "A-Lex IV"
    • Kairos
  • Severe Torture
    • Misanthropic Carnage
    • Fall of the Despised
    • Sworn Vengeance
    • Slaughtered
  • Shakira:
    • Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Where are the Thieves?)
    • She Wolf
    • Sale el Sol (The Sun Comes Out)
  • Sia
    • Onlysee
    • Healing Is Difficult
    • Everyday Is Christmas
    • Music
  • Simple Minds
    • Life in a Day
    • Sons and Fascination
    • New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
    • Once Upon a Time
    • Street Fighting Years
    • Real Life
    • Graffiti Soul
    • Big Music
  • Six Feet Under
    • Haunted
    • Bringer of Blood
    • 13
  • Slayer
    • Show No Mercy
    • Hell Awaits
    • South of Heaven
    • Seasons in the Abyss
    • Divine Intervention
    • World Painted Blood
  • Sleeping At Last
    • Ghosts
    • Keep No Score
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Snow Patrol
    • Fallen Empires
  • SNSD
    • Gee
    • Genie
    • Oh!
    • Hoot
    • The Boys
    • Twinkle
    • I Got A Boy
  • Soundgarden
  • Spawn of Possession
    • Cabinet
  • Britney Spears
    • ...Baby One More Time
  • Spock's Beard
    • The Light
    • Beware of Darkness
    • Day for Night
    • Feel Euphoria
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
    • The Best Day Ever
  • Squarepusher
    • Do You Know Squarepusher
  • Stars
    • Heart
    • Set Yourself On Fire
    • In Our Bedroom After the War
    • The Five Ghosts
    • The North
    • No One Is Lost
  • Status Quo
    • Blue for You
    • Whatever You Want
    • Never Too Late
    • In the Army Now
    • Ain't Complaining
    • Perfect Remedy
    • Rock 'Til You Drop
    • Don't Stop
    • Under the Influence
    • Famous in the Last Century
    • Heavy Traffic
    • The Party Ain't Over Yet
  • Steeleye Span
    • All Around My Hat
    • Sails of Silver
    • Horkstow Grange
    • They Called Her Babylon
    • Winter
    • Wintersmith
    • Dodgy Bastards
  • Sting
    • Brand New Day
  • Stone Temple Pilots
    • Between the Lines
  • Stromae
    • Cheese
  • St. Vincent
    • Marry Me
    • Strange Mercy
    • Masseducation
  • Sufjan Stevens
    • Enjoy Your Rabbit
    • Seven Swans
    • Come On! Feel The Illinoise!, is also the album-cover stylization of the album Illinois
    • The Avalanche
    • The Age of Adz
    • All Delighted People
    • Carrie and Lowell
    • The Greatest Gift
  • Supertramp
    • Crime of the Century
    • Even in the Quietest Moments
    • Breakfast in America
    • Brother Where You Bound
  • Symphony X
    • The Damnation Game
    • The Divine Wings of Tragedy
    • The Odyssey
    • Paradise Lost
    • Iconoclast
  • System of a Down
    • Toxicity
    • Hypnotize

     T 
  • t.A.T.u.
    • Dangerous And Moving
  • Tears for Fears
    • The Hurting
    • Elemental
    • Raoul and the Kings of Spain
    • Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
    • The Tipping Point
  • Thank You Scientist:
    • Terraformer
  • They Might Be Giants
    • Mink Car
    • The Spine (title track "Spine")
    • Four of their five children's albums: No!, Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science
    • Nanobots
    • Glean
    • I Like Fun
  • Every studio album that Thin Lizzy released included a title track (that used the track name in the lyrics), with the sole exception of their debut album.
  • Three Days Grace
    • One-X
    • Life Starts Now.
  • Thrice
    • Identity Crisis
    • The Artist in the Ambulance
    • Beggars
  • Tina Turner
    • Private Dancer
  • Tom Waits
    • Closing Time
    • (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday
    • Small Change
    • Foreign Affairs
    • Blue Valentine
    • Heart Attack and Vine
    • Swordfishtrombone
    • Rain Dogs
    • The Black Rider
    • Alice
    • Bad As Me
  • Tori Amos
    • Little Earthquakes
    • Strange Little Girl (although the album is called Strange Little Girls)
    • Scarlet's Walk
    • The Beekeeper
    • Abnormally Attracted to Sin
    • Night of Hunters
  • tool
    • Undertow
    • Lateralus
    • Fear Inoculum
  • Type O Negative
    • Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)
    • World Coming Down
    • Dead Again

     U 
  • U2
    • October
    • The Unforgettable Fire
    • Zooropa
    • No Line On The Horizon

     V 

     W 
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
    • Dare To Be Stupid
    • Polka Party
    • The soundtrack to UHF contains a song titled "UHF".
  • Dennis Wilson
  • Weakling:
    • Dead as Dreams
  • Steven Wilson
    • Insurgentes
    • Grace for Drowning
    • "The Raven That Refused to Sing" (the album's full title is The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories))
    • Hand. Cannot. Erase. has "Hand Cannot Erase" (without the full stops)
  • Wings
    • Wild Life
    • Band On The Run
    • Venus and Mars
    • London Town
  • The Who
    • My Generation
    • "A Quick One, While He's Away" (the American version was Happy Jack, having a whole different track)
    • Quadrophenia
    • Who Are You
    • It's Hard
    • Endless Wire
  • Within Temptation
    • Enter
    • Mother Earth
    • The Heart Of Everything
  • Wolfmother:
    • Cosmic Egg

     X 
  • X
    • Los Angeles

     Y 
  • Yes
    • Time and a Word
    • Close to the Edge
    • Going for the One
    • Big Generator
    • Open Your Eyes
    • Magnification
    • Fly From Here
  • Neil Young
    • This Note's For You

     Z 
  • Frank Zappa
    • You Are What You Is
  • Zealotry
    • The Charnel Expanse
    • The Last Witness
    • At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds
  • Nando Zornitta
    • La Ciudad de los Zanates
  • ZZTop
    • Mescalero

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