Album value guides
What an album is worth depends on which pressing you own, and no two pressings trade alike. These guides break it down record by record: every pressing we track, the original catalog numbers, the runout etchings that identify a first press, and the variants collectors chase — drawn from our catalog of 974,753 vinyl releases and from what people actually scan in RecordScout.
607 album guides and 40 artist overviews so far. We add more in waves, starting with the records people bring in for a value check most often.
By artist
- AC/DC12 guides · 557 releases tracked
- Aerosmith12 guides · 345 releases tracked
- Aretha Franklin10 guides · 250 releases tracked
- Bee Gees5 guides · 176 releases tracked
- Billy Joel11 guides · 269 releases tracked
- Bob Dylan10 guides · 664 releases tracked
- Bob Marley & The Wailers12 guides · 414 releases tracked
- Bruce Springsteen12 guides · 458 releases tracked
- Carole King2 guides · 80 releases tracked
- Creedence Clearwater Revival11 guides · 204 releases tracked
- David Bowie11 guides · 922 releases tracked
- Eagles10 guides · 154 releases tracked
- Elton John12 guides · 537 releases tracked
- Elvis Presley11 guides · 1,403 releases tracked
- Eric Clapton12 guides · 323 releases tracked
- Fleetwood Mac12 guides · 419 releases tracked
- Frank Sinatra12 guides · 369 releases tracked
- Jimi Hendrix12 guides · 262 releases tracked
- Johnny Cash12 guides · 460 releases tracked
- Kiss12 guides · 505 releases tracked
- Led Zeppelin11 guides · 273 releases tracked
- Madonna12 guides · 871 releases tracked
- Marvin Gaye11 guides · 229 releases tracked
- Megadeth10 guides · 296 releases tracked
- Metallica12 guides · 816 releases tracked
- Michael Jackson8 guides · 516 releases tracked
- Neil Young12 guides · 262 releases tracked
- Nirvana12 guides · 526 releases tracked
- Phil Collins5 guides · 196 releases tracked
- Pink Floyd12 guides · 640 releases tracked
- Prince12 guides · 513 releases tracked
- Queen12 guides · 684 releases tracked
- Santana12 guides · 215 releases tracked
- Stevie Wonder12 guides · 258 releases tracked
- The Beach Boys12 guides · 357 releases tracked
- The Beatles12 guides · 842 releases tracked
- The Doors12 guides · 303 releases tracked
- The Rolling Stones12 guides · 1,031 releases tracked
- The Who12 guides · 303 releases tracked
- U212 guides · 551 releases tracked
More records people scan
Beyond the big discographies — albums that keep showing up in RecordScout scans, each with its own pressing guide.
- Al Stewart — Year Of The Cat
- Alabama — Mountain Music
- Alice Cooper — Love It To Death
- America — America (self-titled)
- Ashford & Simpson — Solid
- Bad Company — Straight Shooter
- Bad Company — Run With The Pack
- Barbra Streisand — Wet
- Billy Ocean — Suddenly
- Bing Crosby — Merry Christmas
- Black Sabbath — Master Of Reality
- Blind Faith — Blind Faith (self-titled)
- Blood, Sweat And Tears — Blood, Sweat And Tears (self-titled)
- Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band — Against The Wind
- Bon Jovi — Slippery When Wet
- Bon Jovi — New Jersey
- Boston — Boston (self-titled)
- Boz Scaggs — Silk Degrees
- Bread — The Best Of Bread
- Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band — Live / 1975-85
- Bryan Adams — Cuts Like A Knife
- Cat Stevens — Greatest Hits
- Cat Stevens — Tea For The Tillerman
- Cat Stevens — Teaser And The Firecat
- Chicago — Chicago (self-titled)
- Christopher Cross — Christopher Cross (self-titled)
- Cinderella — Long Cold Winter
- Commodores — Nightshift
- Crosby, Stills & Nash — Crosby, Stills & Nash (self-titled)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — Déjà Vu
- Cyndi Lauper — She's So Unusual
- Dan Fogelberg — Souvenirs
- Daryl Hall & John Oates — Private Eyes
- Death Grips — The Money Store
- Deep Purple — Machine Head
- Def Leppard — Hysteria
- Dire Straits — Dire Straits (self-titled)
- Dire Straits — Brothers In Arms
- Dolly Parton — Greatest Hits
- Don McLean — American Pie
- Electric Light Orchestra — Out Of The Blue
- Electric Light Orchestra — A New World Record
- Electric Light Orchestra — Eldorado - A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer — Brain Salad Surgery
- Foreigner — 4
- Genesis — Duke
- Genesis — Invisible Touch
- George Harrison — All Things Must Pass
- George Michael — Faith
- Gerry Rafferty — City To City
- Guns N' Roses — Appetite For Destruction
- Heart — Dreamboat Annie
- Huey Lewis & The News — Sports
- Iron Butterfly — In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
- James Taylor — James Taylor's Greatest Hits
- Janet Jackson — Control
- Janis Joplin — Pearl
- Jeff Beck — Truth
- Jefferson Airplane — The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane
- Jefferson Airplane — Surrealistic Pillow
- Jefferson Airplane — Takes Off
- Jefferson Starship — Red Octopus
- Jethro Tull — M.U. - The Best Of Jethro Tull
- Jethro Tull — Living In The Past
- Jim Croce — You Don't Mess Around With Jim
- Jim Croce — I Got A Name
- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts — I Love Rock 'N Roll
- John Cougar Mellencamp — American Fool
- John Cougar Mellencamp — The Lonesome Jubilee
- John Denver — Back Home Again
- John Lee Hooker — It Serve You Right To Suffer
- John Lennon — Mind Games
- John Lennon — Imagine
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono — Double Fantasy
- John Williams — Star Wars / Return Of The Jedi - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- John Williams — Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Journey — Departure
- Journey — Escape
- Journey — Frontiers
- Kansas — Leftoverture
- Lionel Richie — Can't Slow Down
- Lionel Richie — Lionel Richie (self-titled)
- Lionel Richie — Dancing On The Ceiling
- Lynyrd Skynyrd — (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
- Marty Robbins — Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
- Meat Loaf — Bat Out Of Hell
- Men At Work — Business As Usual
- Men At Work — Cargo
- Miley Cyrus — Bangerz
- Muddy Waters — Folk Singer
- Mötley Crüe — Theatre Of Pain
- Nat King Cole — The Christmas Song
- Neil Diamond — The Jazz Singer (Original Songs From The Motion Picture)
- Neil Diamond — Hot August Night
- Notorious B.I.G. — Ready To Die
- Olivia Rodrigo — Guts
- Pat Benatar — Crimes Of Passion
- Paul Simon — Graceland
- Paul Simon — Still Crazy After All These Years
- Peter Frampton — Frampton Comes Alive!
- Pointer Sisters — Break Out
- Prince And The Revolution — Purple Rain
- REO Speedwagon — Hi Infidelity
- Red Krayola, The Familiar Ugly — The Parable Of Arable Land
- Rod Stewart — Never A Dull Moment
- Rod Stewart — Gasoline Alley
- Rod Stewart — Every Picture Tells A Story
- Sade — Promise
- Sade — Diamond Life
- Sam Cooke — The Best Of Sam Cooke
- Sex Pistols — The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
- Simon & Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Simon & Garfunkel — Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
- Simon & Garfunkel — Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
- Simon & Garfunkel — Bookends
- Simon & Garfunkel — Sounds Of Silence
- Soundgarden — Badmotorfinger
- Steely Dan — Can't Buy A Thrill
- Steely Dan, Steely Dan — Aja
- Steve Miller Band — Greatest Hits 1974-78
- Steve Miller Band — Fly Like An Eagle
- Steve Miller Band — Book Of Dreams
- Stevie Nicks — Bella Donna
- Stone Temple Pilots — Core
- Stryper — To Hell With The Devil
- Supertramp — Breakfast In America
- Taylor Swift — Lover
- Ten Years After — Ssssh.
- The Alan Parsons Project — Eye In The Sky
- The Blues Brothers — Briefcase Full Of Blues
- The Cars — The Cars (self-titled)
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Time Out
- The Doobie Brothers — Best Of The Doobies
- The Doobie Brothers — One Step Closer
- The Doobie Brothers — Minute By Minute
- The Doobie Brothers — Toulouse Street
- The Jacksons — Triumph
- The Jacksons — Victory
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Are You Experienced
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Electric Ladyland
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Axis: Bold As Love
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Smash Hits
- The Mamas & The Papas — If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears
- The Monkees — More Of The Monkees
- The Monkees — The Monkees (self-titled)
- The Monkees — Headquarters
- The Moody Blues — On The Threshold Of A Dream
- The Moody Blues — A Question Of Balance
- The Moody Blues, London Festival Orchestra, Peter Knight — Days Of Future Passed
- The Police — Zenyatta Mondatta
- The Police — Synchronicity
- The Strokes — Is This It
- Tina Turner — Private Dancer
- Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers — Damn The Torpedoes
- Traffic — John Barleycorn Must Die
- UB40 — Labour Of Love
- Van Morrison — Moondance
- Vanilla Fudge — Vanilla Fudge (self-titled)
- Various — Jesus Christ Superstar
- Wham! — Make It Big
- Whitney Houston — Whitney Houston (self-titled)
- Whitney Houston — Whitney
- Willie Nelson — Pretty Paper
- Willie Nelson — Somewhere Over The Rainbow
- Wings — Wings Over America
- Yes — Fragile
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