World Music Network
~ Label
Annotation
old websites (normally in order which can help to identify years based on backcover, dates from Wayback machine))
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wldmusic/ (first recorded in DEC 1996, first appeared on RGNET1006 backcover)
www.worldmusic.net (first recorded in DEC 1998, updated in December 2000, April 2004, August 2007, November 2010, July 2012, April 2019)
Design evolution:
1. Front cover with a blue frame on left mentionning World Music Network. (This is not an OBI but printed on cover) 1994 to 1998
2. No more left frame around 1999 to?
3. Similar as 2 but with a banner "The rough guide to..." on top right from cover, around ?
4. Back cover changed with all credits placed at bottom instead of right frame
From RGNET 1145 used around 2005-2006
5. New orange logo on front cover used from 2006 to ...
TBC for the changes after those dates
Cat. no.
At start with spaces but even by that time (1996) they were removing them on offical website
Other sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rough_Guide_albums good but dates seems the american ones
http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/labels/rough2_guide.shtml