Reissue

For example, an act in North America who self-release an album may re-release it via an official label in Europe a couple of years later.

For example, the heavy metal label Roadrunner Records is notorious for reissuing their artist's works' only months after releasing the original album.

According to US music magazine Billboard, reissues target "casual consumers who hadn't picked up the album when it was originally released, as well as obsessives who need to own every song in an artist's catalog.

"[1] In the late 2000s to early 2010s, reissues of studio albums with expanded track listings were common, with the new music often being released as stand-alone EPs.

In October 2010, a Vanity Fair article regarding the trend noted reissues and post-album EPs as "the next step in extending albums' shelf lives, following the "deluxe" editions that populated stores during the past few holiday seasons—add a few tracks to the back end of an album and release one of them to radio, slap on a new coat of paint, and—voila!—a stocking stuffer is born.

[3][4] British girl group Sugababes reissued their studio album Taller in More Ways following Mutya Buena's replacement with Amelle Berrabah.

An example is Funky Town by T-ara, where this repackage album was released as the sequel of their previous EP, Black Eyes.