Led Zeppelin’s music has been reissued 64 times

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Led Zeppelin’s music has been reissued 64 times, data analysis carried out by the UK newspaper The Times and verified by Tight But Loose editor Dave Lewis has shown.

The newspaper used Discogs to analyse the number of reissues such as remasters, deluxe editions and greatest hits compilations released by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley.

The Times found that Led Zeppelin’s music has been reissued fewer times than other artists.

“Jimmy Page may have dedicated much of the past two decades to reissuing deluxe box sets of the Led Zeppelin albums but the band has a relatively modest 64 versions,” Times chief rock and pop critic Will Hodgkinson wrote in an accompanying column.

Presley topped the number of reissues with 2,287 titles reissued, followed by The Beach Boys with 502 reissues and The Beatles with 369 reissues.

Lewis made his own list of Led Zeppelin reissues and also arrived at a total of 64 Led Zeppelin reissues, confirming the figure calculated by The Times.

Led Zeppelin began reissuing its music in the 1980s when its original albums were re-released on CD starting in 1987. The band’s reissues have also included various greatest hits packages as well as the deluxe editions of the band’s albums that were released with accompanying bonus discs starting in 2014.

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