>>RECORDS
As far as I’m concerned a “record” is short for “recording”
and, while people may associate it with 33, 44, or 78 rpm
vinyl, technically a CD, cassette, 8 track, mp3 file, etc is a record. A record-ing.
It’s like dialing a phone. The term meant one thing and became bastardized.
An album was originally an “album” of 78s or 45s (in a book or box). After 78s, you had to pick betwen 45rpm or 33rpm players (different companies backed the two formats).
We now call them “boxed sets” of CDs. Even though THOSE are albums of CDs.
And as there is no packaging for an mp3 digital download, there can only be “virtual albums” of mp3s.