live album
noun
: an album made by recording a performance before an audience
The group has just released a live album.
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The Dance aired nonstop on MTV and VH1, and the album debuted at number one on Billboard’s album charts and became the fifth-best-selling live album of all time in the US.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The album is front of mind for Yorke, who recently worked on the stage production of Hamlet Hail to the Thief (which mashes up the album and the Shakespeare play) and the surprise live album Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003–2009) was released earlier this year.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
That is the album that truly inspired this live album.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
The claim has been denied over the years multiple times by various parties, though McCartney leaned in with a 1993 live album titled Paul Is Live.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The album is front of mind for Yorke, who recently worked on the stage production of Hamlet Hail to the Thief (which mashes up the album and the Shakespeare play) and the surprise live album Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003–2009) was released earlier this year.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
That is the album that truly inspired this live album.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
The claim has been denied over the years multiple times by various parties, though McCartney leaned in with a 1993 live album titled Paul Is Live.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Live album.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20album. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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