single

a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

"he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"

"they had lunch at one" hit a single

"the batter singled to left field" being or characteristic of a single thing or person

"individual drops of rain"

"please mark the individual pages"

"they went their individual ways" used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals

"single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual

"upon the hill stood a single tower"

"had but a single thought which was to escape"

"a single survivor"

"a single serving"

"a single lens"

"a single thickness" not married or related to the unmarried state

"unmarried men and women"

"unmarried life"

"sex and the single girl"

"single parenthood"

"are you married or single?" characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing

"an individual serving"

"single occupancy"

"a single bed" having uniform application

"a single legal code for all" not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

"judging a contest with a single eye"

"a single devotion to duty"

"undivided affection"

"gained their exclusive attention"

In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sideB-sides, usually remixes or other songs. Most singles have only one A-side and are named after this song, but some may have a double A-side (a famous example being Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane by the Beatles), where two tracks are given equal billing in the title of the single. Rarely, a single will not be identical in name to the featured track—such as the Nine Inch Nails single, Closer to God.In the older vinyl recordrecord format, there was no "track 1" as the disc itself was reversible, so the difference between an A-side and a B-side was one of promotion. CD singles do have a defined ordering of tracks, so that even on a double A-side single, one track has to come first. Some single releases have been released in two different versions, one with each track first (such as Muse's non-album single Dead Star/In Your World or In Your World/Dead Star, or with two CDs with one track each (such as Kent's single FF/VinterNoll2 Records with more than two A-sides are usually not considered singles, but Extended_playEPs.The lead tracks (and sometimes B-sides) of singles usually come from an Albumalbum (either one already released or one about to be) and the release of the single is partly to promote sales of the album. Non-album singles are also produced. A typical number of singles to release from an album is four—more is considered exceptional.Singles often feature "radio edit" or "single edit" versions of the main song, which differ from the original recording in being edited to an attractive length for radio play, having expletives censored (often by re-recording with different lyrics), or both.

Situations in US and UK - In the United Kingdom before the early 1990s, singles were released to radio and shops on the same day. As radio airplay increased, the single would climb in the chart, reach a peak position, often about a month later, and then slowly drop out of the chart. Since the early 1990s, record companies have released singles to radio months in advance of their commercial release. This saturates the audience in the song, ensuring that it enters the chart with maximum sales. Thus, today's singles debut at their peak position. This trend has led to the common sight of not one single in the UK Singles ChartUK Top 75 gaining in the chart. Singles also spend less time at #1 and fall down the chart more rapidly, spending less time overall since they never climb to their peak. In addition, while before the 90s, the first single from an album was released several weeks in advance of the album, today singles are typically released one week, or occasionally two weeks, before the album's release. The trend of single sales declining and no singles rising in the chart has been checked by the recent introduction of digital sales in the UK.Some other strategies are employed in the release of lead singles from an album. On occasion, lead singles are released months in advance of the album they appear on. Two examples are Oasis_(band)Oasis' "Some Might Say" and Pulp_(band)Pulp's "Help the Aged". Less commonly, two separate singles are released at the same time to promote an album. An example is the simultaneous release of the Manic Street Preachers' "Found That Soul" and "So Why So Sad".In the United States, since the early 1990s, singles have increasingly not been issued commercially at all. While this precluded them from charting on the Billboard_Hot_100Hot 100, Billboard magazine''Billboard'' magazine recognised the trend and in December 1998 modified the rules to allow airplay-only tracks, which they call album cuts, to chart. Since then, airplay-only singles have frequently topped the chart. However, the former rule disqualified such long-term airplay #1 hits as No Doubt's "Don't Speak" from charting on the Hot 100 at all. Recently, Billboard too has accounted for digital_downloaddigital sales in its calculation of single chart positions.

History - Singles have been issued on various formats, including 7-inch, 10 inch and 12-inch single12 inch Gramophone recordvinyl discs (usually playing at 45 (number)45 rpm); 10 inch shellac discs (playing at 78 rpm); cassette, 3" and 5" CD singles and 7 inch plastic flexi discs. Other, less common, formats include singles on Digital Compact Cassettedigital compact cassette, DVD, and laserdiscLD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc (5", 8", etc.)The sales of singles are recorded in charts in most countries in a Top 40 format. These charts are often published in magazines and numerous Television programtelevision shows and radio programmingradio programs count down the list. In order to be eligible for inclusion in the charts the single must meet the requirements set by the charting company, usually governing the number of songs and the total playing time of the single.In popular music, the relative commercial and artistic importance of the single (as compared to the EP or album) has varied over time, technological development, and according to the audience of particular artists and genres. Singles have generally been more important to artists who sell to the youngest purchasers of music (younger teenagers and pre-teens), who tend to have more limited financial resources and shorter attention spans. Perhaps the golden age of the single was on !"Vinyl_record#Progress,_a nd_the_War_of_the_Speeds 45's" in the 1950s and early 1960s in the early years of rock music; albums became a greater focus as artists like The Beatles and others created albums of uniformly high quality and coherent themes (one of many examples being the concluding medley on ''Abbey Road (album)Abbey Road''), a trend which reached its apex in the development of the concept album. Over the 1980s and 1990s, the single has generally received less and less attention as albums, which on compact disc had virtually identical production and distribution costs but could be sold at a higher price, became most retailers' primary method of selling music. The single became almost exclusively a promotional tool for radio play and to appear on television via the video clip. Dance music, however, has followed a different commercial pattern, and the single, especially the 12-inch vinyl single, remains a major method by which dance music is distributed. 2005As of 2005, the single seems to be undergoing something of a revival. Commercial music download sites reportedly sell mostly single tracks rather than whole albums, and the increase in popularity seems to have rubbed off on physical formats smh.com.au. Portable Digital audio playerMP3 players, which make it extremely easy to load many songs from different artists and play them, are claimed to be a major factor behind this trend.A related development has been the popularity of mobile phone Ring toneringtones based on pop singles (on some modern phones, the actual single can be used as a ringtone). These are reportedly a very lucrative new business for the music industry.In a reversal of the this trend, recently a single has been released based on a ringtone itself. The Crazy Frog ringtone, which had become a cult hit in Europe in 2004, was released as a mashup with Axel F in June 2005 amid a massive publicity campaign and subsequently hit #1 on the UK charts.

Video singles - In relation to music singles, the industry has released music videos as singles as well. Originally released on very short VHS cassettes (T-15), these eventually were released on LaserdiscLaserDisc as LD-singles (18-cm or 8" format, instead of the full 1'/12"/30-cm LD), and on MiniDVDcDVD as DVD-singles (8-cm or 3" format, instead of the full 12-cm/5.25" DVD).

See also -

List of best selling singles

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