What is a box set and what types of products are sold as box sets?
A box set is a set of items traditionally packaged in a box and offered for sale as a single unit. They are sold across music, books, films, television, and digital collections.
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A box set is a set of items traditionally packaged in a box and offered for sale as a single unit. They are sold across music, books, films, television, and digital collections.
Legacy Recordings and Rhino Records are the two companies best known for making music box sets, and both have won multiple Grammy Awards. Before them, Time-Life Records and Reader's Digest also issued box sets.
Pink Floyd have released the Oh, by the Way and Discovery compilation sets, Immersion expanded editions of The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979), and The Early Years 1965-1972, which features mostly unreleased material.
The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection was released in 1999 by New Line Platinum Series. It contained the original seven films, a bonus DVD called The Nightmare Series Encyclopedia, two pairs of 3-D glasses for the final minutes of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, and a commemorative booklet titled The Nightmare is Alive.
On streaming services such as Netflix, particularly in Commonwealth English, box set refers to a series or season where all episodes are available to watch on demand, either alongside or in place of traditional broadcast scheduling.
Notable best-selling music box sets include Led Zeppelin's self-titled set (1990), George Strait's Strait Out of the Box (1995), Nirvana's With the Lights Out (2004), and The Beatles' twin sets The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) and The Beatles in Mono (2009).