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Somewhere In Time

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

Have a look How each was pinned down

Nineteen copies on my shelf

Somewhere In Time, 1986.

19Copies
12Countries
15Confirmed
2Likely
2Still up in the air

13 Vinyl · 3 CD · 3 Cassette

Collection worth DKK 4,708-4,852

Median of completed Discogs sales, read 2026-09-23. Sixteen priced against the release it was pinned to; one still up in the air, shown as the span across their candidates; one never sold, counted at the lowest asking price; one 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.

19 pressings

Twelve countries, one shelf

11 countries plotted6 copies from Europe, which name a region rather than a placeAmber marks a state that no longer exists39 more countries carry a pressing the shelf doesn't have10 more versions pressed under Australasia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong & Thailand and Worldwide, which name a region rather than a place, and aren't on the shelf eitherA 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.

147

UK

Six UK rows share TC-EMC 3512 -- 4397151, 10934217 and 7782120, all dated 1986 and catalogued 'Album', and 27215484, 35539702 and 12222787, all undated and catalogued 'Album, Reissue'. The three 1986 rows are identical to each other on every field the committed version list carries, and the three reissue rows are simply silent. The copy states its country outright (Manufactured in the UK by EMI Records Ltd. / Made and printed in the UK) and its catalogue number on both shell faces, and then runs out: this format has no run-out, the inlay carries no plant, printer or rights-society mark, and the shell's ℗/© 1986 dates the recording rather than this copy's manufacture.

Fetching the six UK rows' own release pages and comparing their recorded barcodes, shell and inlay notes and images against this copy's 5 099924 059749, its XDR / QUALITY SYSTEM marking and its white five-screw shell. The barcode alone would most likely split the three 1986 originals from the three undated reissues. No further photograph would help -- every printed panel on the shell and the unfolded inlay has already been read at native resolution.

148

Peru

Two Discogs rows share catalogue GE.02.0034, the EMI label and Peru: 10959157 (1986, plain 'Album, Stereo') and 22366300 (1987, 'Repress'). Nothing on the shell or inlay - no plant mark, no date code, no shell variant - separates an original run from a later one off the same tooling, and the inlay's (p)/(c) 1986 line dates the recording rather than this copy's manufacture.

Photograph the inner shell halves and the tape hubs - the surfaces these shots don't cover, and the only places a plant or date code could still be hiding on an otherwise fully-read object. Failing that, this resolves only if one of the two rows gains a distinguishing shell or print description, or the pair turns out to be one release catalogued twice.

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.

15 held 373 still out there
wanted →owned →

388 of the 388 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
146 Turkey TCP 2186 21 92 4.4 117 of 157
143 Greece 062-2405971 · EMC 3512-A / EMC 3512-B (labels) 72 219 3.0 55 of 108
145 Japan TOCP-50698 85 180 2.1 61 of 118
137 Colombia 111072 92 303 3.3 59 of 108
139 Europe 064 24 0597 1 (sleeve) · 1C 062-24 0597 1 (labels) · 24 0597 1 (inner sleeve) 100 100 1.0 60 of 108
134 Venezuela EMI-25120 - printed 25120 on the sleeve · EMC 3512 (labels) 109 302 2.8 61 of 108
142 South Korea OLE-661 · EMC-3512 167 275 1.6 69 of 108
132 Europe 064 24 0597 1 (sleeve) · 1C 062-24 0597 1 (labels) · 24 0597 1 (inner sleeve) 292 119 0.4 75 of 108
138 Europe 064 24 0597 1 (sleeve) · 1C 062-24 0597 1 (labels) · 24 0597 1 (inner sleeve) 292 119 0.4 75 of 108
140 Europe 064 24 0597 1 (sleeve) · 1C 062-24 0597 1 (labels) · 24 0597 1 (inner sleeve) 292 119 0.4 75 of 108
136 Russia 038-74 6341 1 (labels and rear) · EMC 3512 (labels and run-out) 444 310 0.7 80 of 108
150 Europe 0190295567705 493 118 0.2 100 of 118

This shows the twelve scarcest of seventeen placed copies. Two of the nineteen 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 147 CD, cassette and vinyl pressings of this record from 1986 and 1987. Any copy the shelf already has is marked.

  1. Hungary none 0 owners, 123 want it
  2. Greece 062-2405971 Test Pressing 0 owners, 20 want it
  3. Peru GE.02.0034 1 owner, 64 want it
  4. Portugal 2405974 1 owner, 53 want it
  5. Barbados 4XJ-12524, 4XT-12524 1 owner, 34 want it
  6. Spain 274 2405974, 106 1 owner, 31 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.