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back catalogue

British

noun

the recordings that a musician has made in the past, as distinct from his or her current recording

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If that does happen, Kelly's back catalogue suggests she will have made her mark somehow.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

While "Gugusse and the Automaton" was known to be in Melies' back catalogue, no one had seen it until McFarland delivered it to the library in his Toyota sedan last September.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

It has leaned hard into its Netflix-style Game Pass, also available on PC, which allows players to download brand new and back catalogue titles for a monthly fee.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

The rapper's been performing his latest release Eat It Up - a collab with Skepsis - and says fans approaching him to discuss memories of his back catalogue was also inspiring for him.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025

That I Pagliacci was only fifteen years old when Caruso popularised it on record - young in relation to opera’s extensive back catalogue - is, with the benefit of hindsight, strangely significant.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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