<p>A <em>Musical Album Type</em> is a classification of <a href="/view/music/album"><em>Musical Album</em></a>; an album is a release in the broad sense from an artist; the <em>Musical Album Type</em> is used to clarify the artist’s output by full-length album, singles, live albums, compilations, etc. It can be useful to filter a list of albums by musical album type.<br>There should not be a lot of different instances of <em>Musical Album Type</em>; if you feel a new one is needed, please start a discussion here or in the <a href="/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005f581d3">Music Modeling Interest Group</a>.  </p>