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Maiden England

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

Have a look How each was pinned down

Eight copies on my shelf

Maiden England, 1989.

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

7 VHS · 1 Laserdisc

Collection worth DKK 1,599-1,615

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-09-23. Four priced against the release it was pinned to; two still up in the air, shown as the span across their candidates; two never sold, counted at the lowest asking price. Two of the figures are single recorded sales rather than medians, because those releases have sold once.

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.

8 pressings

Five countries, one shelf

4 countries plotted1 copy from Europe, which name a region rather than a place16 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have1 more version pressed somewhere the master's own listing names no single country for: DenmarkA 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.

181

Europe

Three rows share MVN 9911953. The copy's red front logo rules out 5790672, whose Discogs note says its logo is yellow. The two left, 871017 (UK) and 6755088 (Germany), carry the same catalogue number, barcode 5 099999 119539 and BBFC E, and nothing on this copy states a country. Discogs lists an FSK 7 certification for the German row only, and no FSK mark shows on any photograph.

A printed country marker: a Made in line, an FSK logo on the sleeve or shell, or a German-language sticker or insert. A comparison against a known UK and a known German copy would also do it.

182

UK

Two UK rows, 13614495 and 3980903, both list CMV (2), PAL, 1989 and CMV 1136, which is what the spine and cassette label carry. The version list gives no field that separates them, and no barcode, printer code or other release-specific print was legible on the copy.

Fetching the two full release records and comparing their notes and images with the spine, the cassette label and the rear sleeve; if they describe a visible difference, one more photograph of that spot would finish it.

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.

5 held 82 still out there
wanted →owned →

87 of the 87 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
178 UK 19V-49058 2 24 12.0 1 of 17
179 Japan TOVW-3042 7 21 3.0 4 of 17
180 Australia VM 60066 16 24 1.5 7 of 17
177 Japan TOLW-3042 68 80 1.2 2 of 2
175 US 19V-49058 160 44 0.3 15 of 17
183 US 19V-49058 160 44 0.3 15 of 17

Two of the eight 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 seventeen laserdisc and VHS pressings of this record from 1989 and 1990. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. UK 19V-49058 Promo, NTSC 2 owners, 24 want it
  2. Japan TOVW-3042 NTSC 7 owners, 21 want it
  3. France PMF 180124 SECAM 8 owners, 18 want it
  4. Yugoslavia V-M-100-L 4 02361 3 PAL 11 owners, 23 want it
  5. Australia VM 60066 PAL 16 owners, 24 want it
  6. UK MVN 9911953 PAL 17 owners, 23 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.