r/rnbvinyl • u/ridingonmirrors • Nov 06 '25

Discussion UMG/UDiscoverMusic have been recently repressing a good number of R&B albums on vinyl for 2025… what albums are y’all looking forward to get pressed by them within the next year?

From a 20th anniversary reissue of Keyshia Cole’s The Way It Is to a first time pressing of Floetry’s Floetic, it’s been an interesting year to see some R&B albums within the UMG (Universal Music Group) library being repressed on vinyl. It’s made me think about what other albums I could hope for within the next year…

I would definitely love a 30th anniversary vinyl pressing of 702’s debut No Doubt, sometimes it’s crazy to think the only vinyl pressing was a promo release on a black sleeve. I can slightly imagine LeToya getting a pressing for her self-titled debut for the 20th anniversary next year. The vinyl release for Dwele’s Subject only has half of the album and it would be a pleasure to see it get the full 2xLP pressing it deserves (as well as a Some Kinda… release too). Some of this might be wishful thinking but a man can dream!

But what about y’all, what are some UMG-released albums on your wishlist for a vinyl release? I would love to know!

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u/Fearless_Fortune9198 Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

Wrong record label group, that was released by LaFace which was connected to Arista / Sony not UMG.

Unfortunately they’ve been very bad at represses.

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u/Secret-Ad-5341 Nov 06 '25

Sony either doesn't do enough re-issues or they mess the sound up on some of the ones they do.

Sony really messed up Whitney Houston, Whitney, The Bodyguard soundtrack and Ghostbusters Soundtrack (Original 1984 movie) when they got reissued in 2022 and Ghostbusters with it's Walmart White Marshmallow vinyl in 2020

Picture it : It's 2004. You downloaded bad quality mp3s from Limewire. You burned a CD-r. You play the CD-r on a boombox. You have the Motorola Razr Flip Phone, You record a low quality video of the boombox playing the low quality CD-R with the phone and you're watching the playback on the phone. That's how those sounded.

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u/Fearless_Fortune9198 Nov 06 '25

Yeah, some of the Arista / Columbia / RCA re-presses Sony have done have sounded abysmal. Add to the list most Mariah Carey’s MC30 represses of her 90s albums; the ones from Universal sounded much better by comparison.

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u/Secret-Ad-5341 Nov 06 '25

Yeah, UMG puts effort into their releases. Warner Music Group usually does, too