Somewhere in the Sun... Best of the Dream Academy is a compilation album released by The Dream Academy in Japan in 2000.
 The compilation album contains the extended version of "Life In A Northern Town" and an acoustic version of "The Party" rather than the more common versions.
 At the time of its release, Nick Laird-Clowes revealed that the band actually had no involvement with the album, and he went on further to say that they weren’t even informed by Warners that a compilation album was being made.
 His former label boss, Alan McGee, then of Creation Records, was the one who actually brought him home a copy when he was visiting Japan on business.
 According to Kate St John, around the same time that this album was being made, Warner Brothers were considering a US compilation album, but they and the band decided to re-issue their first album, "The Dream Academy".
Archive Series a.k.a. "The Korgis Archive" is a compilation album by English pop band The Korgis.
 It was released by Rialto Records in 1997.
Timeline (subtitled An Introduction to The Vision Bleak) is a compilation album by German gothic metal band The Vision Bleak.
 Their first compilation album ever, it was announced on 27 March 2016 and released on 3 June (the same release date of their sixth studio album, "The Unknown") by Prophecy Productions.
 Intended to celebrate the band's 16th anniversary, and to introduce newcomers to their music, the album contains an assortment of songs ranging from their 2004 debut "The Deathship Has a New Captain" to their most recent release on 2016, "The Unknown".
Devotion is a compilation album by American alternative rock band Anberlin that was released on October 15, 2013, a year after its predecessor "Vital".
 The album is a rework of the band's sixth studio album, "Vital" which came out the year before.
 "Devotion" is the band's fourth compilation album and tenth overall effort of their career and features the original track-listing of "Vital", along with three new self-produced songs: "City Electric", "Dead American", and "IJSW", as well as songs from exclusive releases of "Vital" for iTunes, Best Buy and the Australian market.
 The deluxe version contains three discs, disc one being the reworked version of "Vital", disc two is a compilation of remixes of the album's songs, while the third disc is a DVD containing a full concert at Music Hall of Williamsburg from mid-2012.
 The standard edition includes only the reworked "Vital" disc and a CD of the Williamsburg audio.
 The album was first announced on the band's official website in September 2013, where they revealed they would be releasing "a collection we're calling "Devotion: Vital Special Edition"".
The Hits Collection is a compilation album by Kim Wilde.
 The album was released on March 6, 2006.
 Originally the album was intended to be a repackaged version of the 1996 compilation "Best of Kim Wilde".
 When the album was announced, the webmaster of Wilde's fansite contacted EMI and asked if it would be a better idea to release a new compilation of Wilde's EMI "first" years 1981-1983 instead.
 EMI agreed, and so this compilation came to be.
 It included Wilde's 1982 track "Bitter Is Better", which had not been released in the UK until this CD.
 This compilation assembled the first eight singles of Wilde's career (tracks 1-8) as well as their respective B-sides (tracks 9 through 16) in chronological order; filling up the track order are the aforementioned unreleased track as well as the two 12" A-sides of that time-frame.
The Compendium Archive 1996 - 2006 is a compilation album by American metal band Agalloch.
 It was released through Licht Von Dämmerung Arthouse on March 20, 2010.
 The album was limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, and was sold exclusively at the band's two Romanian gigs in March 2010.
Agalloch ( ) was an American heavy metal band from Portland, Oregon.
 Formed in 1995 by frontman John Haughm, they released five full-length albums, four EPs, two singles, one split single, two demos, four compilation albums and one live video album.
 They announced their disbandment in May 2016.
The Demonstration Archive 1996 - 1998 is a compilation album by Agalloch featuring music from the band's unsigned years from 1996 to 1998.
 Tracks 1 through 3 were taken from Agalloch's first demo from 1997, "From Which of This Oak"; tracks 4 through 6 were from an unreleased 7" vinyl EP recorded in autumn 1998 called "Of Stone, Wind and Pillor" (later released as a limited-edition CD with bonus tracks by The End Records); and tracks 7 and 8 came from Agalloch's second demo "Promo 1998".
The discography of the South Korean singer Kim Jong-hyun (most often credited as Jonghyun) consists of one studio album, two compilation album, one extended play, seven singles and six appearances in soundtracks.
 Jonghyun released his first extended play, "Base", on January 12, 2015.
 His first compilation album, entitled "Story Op.1", was released on September 17, 2015.
 Jonghyun released a collaboration single with Heritage titled "Your Voice" on March 18, 2016, for the project Station.
 On May 24, 2016, he launched his first studio album, "She Is", containing a total of 9 songs.
 On December 9, 2016, he released the song "Inspiration" for the project Station.
 He released his second compilation album, titled "Story Op.2", on April 24, 2017.
Ultra Hit Tracks is a mini compilation album released by Australian pop duo Savage Garden.
 The decision for the album's release was made after the success of "Truly Madly Deeply – Ultra Rare Tracks", a compilation album issued in Japan in 1998.
 In 2000, Sony decided to release a similar album, this time containing five of the group's biggest hits.
 The compilation failed to sell more than 3,000 copies, however, a third Japanese compilation album was subsequently issued in 2000.

Question: The Demonstration Archive 1996 - 1998 is a compilation album by a band that announced what in 2016?
Answer: their disbandment