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Powerslave

I've got twenty-six pressings of this record, from sixteen countries. Every one's been read off the copy itself: twenty-three pinned down, two likely and one not on the master.

Have a look How each was pinned down 119 vinyl pressings still to find

Twenty-six copies on my shelf

Powerslave, EMI, September 1984. Cover painting by Derek Riggs.

26Copies
16Countries
23Confirmed
2Likely
0Still up in the air
1Not on the master

18 Vinyl · 6 CD · 2 Cassette

Collection worth DKK 5,381

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-09-23. Twenty-three priced against the release it was pinned to; three with no recorded sale on Discogs at all, left out of the total. One of the figures is a single recorded sale rather than a median, because that release has 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.

26 pressings

Sixteen countries, one shelf

14 countries plotted6 copies from Europe and UK & Europe, which name a region rather than a placeAmber marks a state that no longer exists30 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have9 more versions pressed under Singapore, Malaysia & Hong Kong, Australasia, Singapore & Malaysia and Worldwide, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf eitherA ring marks one I haven't got

Three things worth knowing

The side A label of folder 109, its tracklist and producer credit printed in Spanish

Folder 109 translates the producer's name

The Argentine pressing puts the whole tracklist into Spanish, BIEN A PUNTO and LA RIMA DEL VIEJO MARINERO, and then keeps going: it credits Martin “Bufón de la Corte” Birch. Somebody read the producer's surname as a common noun and translated it. No other copy on this shelf translates anything.

The obi strip wrapped around folder 106, with the white box promising the poster

A white box on the obi dates both Japanese copies

The Toshiba EMI obi carries 初回のみポスター付!!, meaning poster with this first pressing only. The later issue came with the same catalogue number, the same labels and a plainer obi, so this one box is what separates a first pressing from a reprint. Both copies have it.

The run-out groove of folder 108, with THERE'S ONLY ONE scratched into the blank vinyl

Folder 108 has a message scratched into it

In the blank groove between the last track and the label, cut by hand at the mastering lathe: THERE'S ONLY ONE. Every European copy of this catalogue number carries it, with a second and much less printable line on the other side.

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.

22 held 383 still out there
wanted →owned →

405 of the 405 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
123 Argentina 7460454 8 82 10.2 77 of 146
124 Turkey TCP 2058 15 140 9.3 97 of 146
112 Israel EJ 240200 20 304 15.2 38 of 134
131 Brazil 7 46045 2 (disc / booklet) / 370 746045 2 (barcode sticker) 22 57 2.6 26 of 120
190 Venezuela EMI-25802 57 321 5.6 58 of 134
188 Brazil 31C 064 240200 69 339 4.9 63 of 134
119 Germany PLP 9 64-24 02001 90 174 1.9 68 of 134
110 Colombia 11981 104 419 4.0 72 of 134
114 South Korea EKPL-0021, EJ 2402001 120 335 2.8 74 of 134
109 Argentina 8250, 81 2402001 142 417 2.9 79 of 134
113 Yugoslavia LSEMI 11082, EJ 2402001 185 337 1.8 83 of 134
126 Japan TOCP-6341 196 279 1.4 78 of 120

This shows the twelve scarcest of twenty-five placed copies. One of the twenty-six copies here has no counts to measure it against, so it is left out.

The least-owned of them all

These are the six least owned of the 155 CD, cassette and vinyl pressings of this record from 1984 and 1985. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Colombia 21981 0 owners, 81 want it
  2. Europe EJ 24 02001 Test Pressing 0 owners, 43 want it
  3. Hungary none 1 owner, 149 want it
  4. Greece 262 2402004 1 owner, 59 want it
  5. Egypt SJ-12321 1 owner, 51 want it
  6. Guatemala 33240, EJ 2402004 1 owner, 42 want it

Egypt got the tape and not the record

The album with the pyramid on its sleeve was licensed in Egypt twice. Both times it came out on cassette, and both used the same catalogue number, SJ-12321, which is Capitol's American number. There is no Egyptian vinyl record anywhere in the list of versions.

Hungary's copy has no catalogue number

A Hungarian cassette appears in the list of versions with its catalogue number recorded as none. That does not mean nobody has read it, and it does not mean the database is missing it. It means the cassette itself has no catalogue number printed on it. Almost nobody says they own this copy, but a lot of people want it.

Three licensees, three different translations

Mexico pressed the album as Poder Esclavizante. Chile called it Esclavo Del Poder. Peru named it El Poder Del Esclavo. In English these mean enslaving power, slave of power, and the power of the slave. Three different readings of the same English word, none the same as the others, all on the same record in the same decade.

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.
Not on the master
The strings read off this copy were legible, and matched no version of this record that Discogs lists. That's an answer, not a loose end: whatever this copy is, it's not one of these.