Singles

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In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats including CD, DVD, Cassette, Vinyl, VHS and Digital Downloads, amongst others. Single releases are often made simultaneously in more than one format, as a single track download, and on CD or vinyl. Records with more than two A-sides are usually not considered singles, but EPs.

Although non-album singles are sometimes released, the lead tracks (and sometimes B-sides) of singles usually come from an album (either one already released or one about to be) and the release of the single is partly to promote sales of the album, and to ensure radio playlisting. CD 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.

A typical number of singles to be released from an album is two to four—more is considered exceptional. However, since an artist's most popular songs are often singles later albums including their earlier works may have many.

Evanescence has commercially released a total of 17 singles. Those being:

• Bring Me to Life
• Going Under
• My Immortal
• Everybody's Fool
• Imaginary¹
• Missing²
• Call Me When You're Sober
• Lithium
• Sweet Sacrifice
• Good Enough
• Weight of the World³
• Together Again⁴
• What You Want
• My Heart is Broken
• Made of Stone⁵
• The Other Side⁵
• Lost in Paradise

¹this was released as radio-only single in Spain
²this was released as a radio-only single in Europe and South America
³this was released as a radio only single in South America
⁴this was available for purchase and digital download on iTunes Store without any physical CD
⁵these were released as radio-only singles in the United States

It is worth noting that Evanescence received airplay before the release of Fallen from the songs Lies, Understanding, Even in Death, Whisper and Give Unto Me. Singles were probably not produced for these songs.

Collecting Singles

It can be a costly hobby to collect Evanescence singles as a complete collection may cost thousands of dollars. Nobody is known to possess a "complete" singles collection, though there are a few who come close. There are roughly 110 known separate releases and countless others unknown.

Noteworthy Collectibles

There are obviously many rare singles that were either produced in limited quantities or contain exclusive tracks not found elsewhere (e.g. the Spanish release of Going Under). These are the major collectibles in the scene.

Items considered especially rare:

• Bring Me to Life Cassette
• Bring Me to Life US Radio Singles
• Going Under Spanish Single
• My Immortal UK CD 1
• Sweet Sacrifice US Radio Single
• Good Enough US Radio Singles
• Korean releases of Bring Me to Life, My Immortal and Going Under

The Imaginary Single

This single is undoubtedly one of the rarest singles with at most 100 copies produced for distribution among Spanish radio stations. See: Imaginary Single

Missing

Released in a few countries when Anywhere But Home reached stores. Sightings of the physical singles are rare nowadays. See: Missing Single

SAMPCS Radio Promos

An example of SAMPCS Collection: Inserts+Discs

SAMPCS being the first part of the catalog number
The Fallen era radio promotional discs released in Europe under the Epic (Sony International) label. One exists for each single released off of Fallen (Bring Me to Life, Going Under, My Immortal, Everybody's Fool & Missing). The Bring Me to Life SAMPCS single notably features a drastically different cover image and Daredevil Soundtrack information. Everybody's Fool and Going Under are fairly easy to find for sale online, the others, are much harder especially Missing. The Call Me When You're Sober European radio promo is not included in this category because it was released by a different label (Sony BMG). Several fans have managed to collect all the SAMPCS singles.

WUJC Radio Promos

An almost complete WUJC collection, sans the gray BMTL/GU Promo DVD and MI 3-track.

WUJC being the first part of the catalog number
Discs released directly from Wind-Up Records to United States radio stations. These discs are VERY rare and are often near impossible to find. They span the band's commercial career from Bring Me to Life to The Other Side. These discs often include alternate single artwork and are always in full-sized Jewel cases (as opposed to a standard J-card single case). Earlier singles such as Bring Me To Life and My Immortal are especially rare, but more recently, the Good Enough and Sweet Sacrifice WUJC singles are known to be quite elusive. Besides the CD singles, there has been so far only one WUJC DVD single containing the videos from Bring Me to Life and Going Under. At least one person is really known to have every WUJC single, while some are close. There are, so far, 17: 3 for BMTL, 1 for GU, 1 BMTL/GU DVD, 3 for My Immortal and 1 for Everybody's Fool, Call Me When You're Sober, Lithium and SS. Also, there are 2 for GE and 1 for My Heart is Broken, Made of Stone, and The Other Side.