Spoken Word
8,313works
29,943pressings
1903first year
Works per year
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Format by decade
| Format | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | 38% | 89% | 93% | 86% | 60% | 15% | 8% | 33% | 48% |
| CD | · | · | · | · | 8% | 53% | 60% | 24% | 14% |
| Cassette | · | · | · | 9% | 28% | 27% | 5% | 6% | 7% |
| File | · | · | · | · | · | · | 5% | 23% | 21% |
| CDr | · | · | · | · | · | · | 9% | 7% | 5% |
Sounds like
PoetryComedyEducationPoliticalSpeechDialogueAudiobookMonologInterviewStoryField RecordingRadioplayTherapySound Poetry
Most-pressed works
| Title | Artist | Year | Pressings |
|---|---|---|---|
| An American Prayer | Jim Morrison | 1978 | 178 |
| The Heart Of Saturday Night | Tom Waits | 1974 | 142 |
| Untitled | Various | 1988 | 136 |
| Good Morning, Vietnam - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Various | 1988 | 131 |
| Holland | The Beach Boys | 1973 | 83 |
| From Then To You (The Beatles Christmas Record, 1970) | The Beatles | 1970 | 72 |
| The Sea | Anita Kerr | 1967 | 67 |
| Another Monty Python Record | Monty Python | 1971 | 59 |
| Santa Maria De Iquique - Cantata Popular | Quilapayún | 1970 | 53 |
| Desiderata / A Different Drummer | Les Crane | 1971 | 47 |
| Dawn FM | The Weeknd | 2022 | 46 |
| Peter And The Wolf / The Sorcerer's Apprentice (From Walt Disney's "Fantasia") / | Various | 1960 | 45 |
| Unsound Methods | Recoil | 1997 | 41 |
| Los Cochinos | Cheech & Chong | 1973 | 39 |
| Winter In America | Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson | 1974 | 39 |
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Gil Scott-Heron | 1974 | 38 |
| Кащей Бессмертный | Сектор Газа | 1994 | 38 |
| The Hastings Archives / The World As Power | Aleister Crowley | 1986 | 37 |
| Reading Volume 1 | Dylan Thomas | 1957 | 36 |
| The Strangest Secret | Earl Nightingale | 1956 | 33 |
| The Rainbow Children | Prince | 2001 | 33 |
| Apollo 13 (Music From The Motion Picture) | James Horner | 1995 | 32 |
| The Holy Land | Johnny Cash | 1969 | 31 |
| Class Clown | George Carlin | 1972 | 31 |
| Der Herr Karl | Helmut Qualtinger | 1961 | 29 |
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Built from the Discogs monthly data dumps (CC0), snapshot 2026-09-01. Counts are of catalogued works and pressings, not of listening.