visual album

American  

[vizh-oo-uhl al-buhm] / ˈvɪʒ u əl ˈæl bəm /

noun

1. the songs on an album accompanied by a series of videos or a single film serving as a visual vehicle for the music.

   a deeply personal 18-track visual album that explores his emotions.

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Etymology

Origin of visual album

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Or, as Naomi Fry of the New Yorker put it, Love Story is an “entirely convincing visual album, a lookbook of what it was like to be in New York in the ’90s.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

This is the pop star's first music video since her visual album "The Lion King: The Gift."

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024

It mixes concert footage and elements of a visual album while trailing the tour from its launch in Stockholm, Sweden, in May to the finale Sunday night in Kansas City, Missouri.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023

So the music video is part of one big visual album?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Two years later, when Beyoncé’s paradigm-shifting visual album “Lemonade” lost to Adele’s “25,” Adele seemed almost embarrassed to accept the award, calling Beyoncé the “artist of my life.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023