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Fear Of The Dark

I've got ten pressings of this record, from eight countries. Every one's been read off the copy itself: three pinned down, five likely and two I still can't settle.

Have a look How each was pinned down

Ten copies on my shelf

Fear Of The Dark, 1992.

10Copies
8Countries
3Confirmed
5Likely
2Still up in the air

2 Vinyl · 1 CD · 7 Cassette

Collection worth DKK 1,647-1,676+

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-09-23. Seven priced against the release it was pinned to; two still up in the air, shown as the span across their candidates; one with no recorded sale on Discogs at all, left out of the total. Two of the figures are single recorded sales rather than medians, because those releases have sold once. One of the unsettled copies has a candidate that has never sold, so the upper figure is the highest price on record, not a ceiling.

The collection

Each tile shows the part of that copy where these pressings actually differ — the label on a record, the shell or the packaging on a cassette or CD — because the sleeve artwork is the same on nearly all of them. Every one links to its own page with the full photographs and evidence.

10 pressings

Eight countries, one shelf

7 countries plotted1 copy whose catalogue entry names no single country: Thailand?36 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have32 more versions pressed under Europe, UK & Europe, Australasia and Worldwide, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf either3 more versions pressed somewhere the master's own listing names no single country for: San Marino, Paraguay and EstoniaA ring marks one I haven't got

Two copies I can't settle

They are waiting on one more piece of evidence, named beside each in the table.

154

UK

Eight UK/Europe rows share CDP 7991612 / CD EMD 1032, and the version list carries no matrix strings to compare the mirror ring against

Match the ring CDP 795142 2 A0 3:1:14 EMI SWINDON with the Matrix / Runout notes on each candidate's Discogs release page

197

Thailand / Malaysia

Discogs 5685340 (Malaysia) is the only Asian cassette in the master carrying this copy's TC EMD 1032 / 7 99161 4 / 0777 7991614(6). But the copy's shell marks its sides A / B where 5685340's marks 1 / 2, and its only country marker is an EMI (Thailand) price sticker -- Discogs lists no Thai cassette of this album.

Discogs gaining a Thai cassette entry with A / B shell sides, or a 'Made in' line found on the inner inlay or shell halves.

How rare is any of this?

Every other number on this page describes a record I own. These describe the world around it: for each version Discogs lists, how many collectors say they own one and how many are still after it. Real counts, not guesses — but not a pressing run either, and no proof that a record is rare. They count only collectors who log their records online, and those aren't spread evenly across the world. Read it as demand against supply, and trust Want per owner over the raw number of owners.

8 held 245 still out there
wanted →owned →

253 of the 253 versions carry Discogs community counts. Lit dots are ones I have.

The figures, version by version
What is on the shelf, starting with the least owned. Each rank compares a copy only with other versions in the same format.
CopyCatalogue Owners Wanted by Want per owner Scarcity rank
192 Uruguay 501813-4 4 125 31.2 52 of 108
198 Turkey 7 99161 4, TCP 2562 10 41 4.1 73 of 108
195 Argentina 7 99161 4 35 119 3.4 93 of 108
193 Turkey TCP 2562 64 130 2.0 100 of 108
200 UK TC EMD 1032 66 94 1.4 101 of 108
194 US ET 48993 644 222 0.3 108 of 108
160 Russia EMD 1032, 7991621, 7991631 726 449 0.6 26 of 33
163 Brazil 168 799161 1 894 471 0.5 28 of 33

Two of the ten copies here have no counts to measure them against, so they are left out.

The least-owned of them all

These are the six least owned of the 112 CD, cassette and vinyl pressings of this record from 1992 and 1993. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Venezuela 25200 Misprint 0 owners, 3 want it
  2. Israel CDP 7991612, CD EMD 1032 Promo 1 owner, 117 want it
  3. San Marino none 1 owner, 72 want it
  4. Croatia MC-7-S 3036867 1 owner, 46 want it
  5. UK none 1 owner, 45 want it
  6. Paraguay 4-40122 1 owner, 33 want it

What the grades mean

One candidate left standing isn't proof. Discogs lists what collectors have catalogued, and nobody's catalogued every pressing ever made, so I can't rule out one that was never listed.

Confirmed
Country and catalogue number match, and so does at least one mark that belongs to this release alone: a barcode, a printer code, a legal-deposit number, a label matrix.
Likely
One candidate matches on country and catalogue number, and nothing else in the photographs was legible enough to check it a second way.
Still up in the air
Two or more editions still fit. Each page names the ones left standing, and the one photograph that would settle it.