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A remix album is an album consisting of or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson ( Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, 1971). As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time is Michael Jackson's (1997).
In the 1980s, record companies would combine several kinds of electronic dance music, such as dance-pop, House music, and techno into full-length albums, creating a relatively low-overhead addition to the catalogs and balance sheets. Soft Cell's Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (1982) and The Human League's Love and Dancing (1982) are credited for inventing the modern remix album. Since this time, this kind of release is not only seen as an easy cash-in for an artist and their label, but also as an opportunity to provide a second lease of life for a record. In reggae music, it is very common for a whole album to be remixed in a Dub music style.Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme, Thorndike Press, 2006 ()
Jennifer Lopez's album J to tha L–O! The Remixes (2002) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first remix album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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