The CD's are listed as 2001 and releases.

These CD's are likely to be re-mastered and / or repackaged CD's, perhaps in mini-album format. The mini-album format are miniture LP / album replica's that house the CD.

The first eight studio albums were re-released in 1998 in Japan as mini-albums. They were of an exceptional quality. Mini-album versions were also released in the US as a box set of the first 8 records, 'The Crown Jewels'. The quality of this set though was a pale shadow of the 'hard-cardboard' Japanese versions.

The 1998 re-mastering of these releases was also superior to the original remasters of Hollywood REcords (US) or EMI (UK) as they employed a higher 24 bit resolution of remastering technology.

Thanks to Ali_Attack for this information.

Japanese HMV - www.hmv.co.jp