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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.

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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     B 

     C 

     D 
  • D
    • 7th Rose
  • Daft Punk
    • Human After All
  • Dark Angel
    • We Have Arrived
    • Darkness Descends
    • Leave Scars
    • Time Does Not Heal
  • Dark New Day
    • New Tradition
  • Darkthrone
    • Under A Funeral Moon
  • Daughtry
    • Break the Spell
  • Death
    • Scream Bloody Gore
    • Leprosy
    • Spiritual Healing
    • Individual Thought Patterns
    • Symbolic
  • Deathspell Omega
    • Inquisitors of Satan
    • Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
    • The Synarchy of Molten Bones
    • All of their one track albums - namely Diabolus Absconditus, Mass Grave Aesthetics and Chaining the Katechon.
  • Decyfer Down
    • Crash
  • Deep Purple
    • Fireball
    • Stormbringer
    • Burn
    • Perfect Strangers
    • The Battle Rages On
    • Bananas
    • Rapture of the Deep
  • Def Leppard
    • High 'n' Dry (in "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)")
    • Hysteria
    • Slang
  • Default
    • One Thing Remains
    • Comes and Goes
  • Defeated Sanity
    • Prelude to the Tragedy
    • ''Psalms of the Moribund
  • Deftones
    • Around the Fur
  • Delain
    • April Rain
  • Delta Goodrem
    • Innocent Eyes
    • Mistaken Identity
  • Demi Lovato
    • Don't Forget
    • Here We Go Again
    • Unbroken
  • Depeche Mode
    • Black Celebration
  • Devin Townsend
    • The Hummer
    • Ki
    • Deconstruction
    • Ghost
  • Die Krupps
    • Odyssey of the Mind— the album cover even depicts someone "sitting in a cage, an open cage."
    • The Machinist of Joy
  • Dire Straits
  • Disturbed
    • Ten Thousand Fists
  • The Doors
  • Dream Theater
    • A Change of Seasons
    • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
    • Octavarium
  • Dropping Daylight
    • Brace Yourself
  • Dying Fetus
    • Killing on Adrenaline
    • Destroy the Opposition
    • Grotesque Impalement
    • Stop at Nothing
    • Descend into Depravity

     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
  • The Foo Fighters have two straight examples with In Your Honor and Concrete and Gold, and a subversion: the title track of The Colour and the Shape 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

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     H 

     I 

     J 
  • Jack Johnson
    • Sleep Through the Static
    • To the Sea
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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     L 

     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
  • Michael Nesmith
    • Nevada Fighter
    • Rays
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
    • In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  • Ne-Yo
    • Because of You
  • Nick Cave:
    • From Her to Eternity
    • Your Funeral... My Trial
    • The Good Son
    • "I Let Love In"
  • Nightwish
    • Imaginaerum
    • Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  • Nine Inch Nails:
    • The Downward Spiral
    • 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
  • 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
  • Ozzy Osbourne
    • Diary of a Madman
    • Bark at the Moon
    • The Ultimate Sin
    • No More Tears
    • Black Rain
    • Variant: "Let Me Hear You Scream"

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

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     S 
  • 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)
  • 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
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Snow Patrol
    • Fallen Empires
  • SNSD
    • Gee
    • Genie
    • Oh!
    • Hoot
    • The Boys
    • Twinkle
    • I Got A Boy
  • Soundgarden
  • Spawn of Possession
    • Cabinet
  • Spock's Beard
    • The Light
    • Beware of Darkness
    • Day for Night
    • Feel Euphoria
  • 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
  • Stone Temple Pilots
    • Between the Lines
  • Stromae
    • Cheese
  • 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 
  • tatu
    • Dangerous And Moving
  • Tears for Fears
    • The Hurting
    • The Seeds of Love is a subversion, as there is a song called "Sowing the Seeds of Love", instead of just "The Seeds of Love".
    • Elemental
    • Raoul and the Kings of Spain
    • Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
  • 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
  • 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

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

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     W 
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
    • Dare To Be Stupid
    • Polka Party
    • The soundtrack to UHF contains a song titled "UHF".
  • Dennis Wilson
  • 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

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