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I'm Breathless (Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy) vinyl value

I'm Breathless (Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy) — Madonna album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Madonna — I'm Breathless (Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy): pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1990 Sire7599262091Australia—
1990 Sire92 62091Canada—
1990 SireW1 26209CanadaClub Edition
1990 Sire7599-26209-1Europe—
1990 Sire7599-26209-1EuropeMisprint
1990 Sire7599-26209-1EuropeClub Edition
1990 Sire7599 26209-1Greece—
1990 Sire7599 26209-1GreeceTest Pressing, White Label
1990 Sire7599 26209-1Italy—
1990 Warner Bros.WBC 1680South Africa—
1990 Sire9 26209-1USSRC Pressing
1990 JugotonLP-7 2 02667 8Yugoslavia—
2019 SireRCV1 26209USLimited Edition, Reissue, Yellow

13 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Originals, 19908 first-year pressings (US, Europe, Australia, Canada and 4 more); any of them is an original. Runout on the US copy starts “1-26209-ASRI DMM SP-1-1 PRECISION”.
Collector variants1990 Europe: Misprint; 1990 Greece: Test Pressing, White Label; 2019 US: Limited Edition, Reissue, Yellow. Short runs like these often bring more than a standard early copy.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. On the 1990 US pressing it reads “1-26209-ASRI DMM SP-1-1 PRECISION” on side one and “1-26209-BSRI DMM SP-1-1 PRECISION” on side two. Jackets get swapped over the decades; the runout does not.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. The same pressing can be worth several times more in near mint than in VG. Grade the vinyl and the sleeve separately — our grading guide shows the standard scale.

A 1990 jacket with a later disc inside is a reissue in an original sleeve. Judge the pressing by the runout etching and the label, never by the cover.

Questions

Which pressing of I'm Breathless (Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy) is worth the most?

The 1990 originals lead. Scarcer variants (the 1990 “Misprint” and the 1990 “Test Pressing, White Label”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell if I have a 1990 original?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. On the 1990 US pressing the runout reads “1-26209-ASRI DMM SP-1-1 PRECISION”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is I'm Breathless (Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy) worth today?

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