Get used to longer albums in music...
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Boo. I like albums in the 40-55 minute range.
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Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
I dont mind the shit. As long as almost every song is quality I'm all for it.
I thought albums were getting shorter?
the issue is, if the overwhelming majority of the album is butt, but one song is getting 200M spins, it's padding the sales stats for the album as a whole project
Those are 2 different arguments.
1. Does longer albums ruin the quality of an album.
2. Padding stats.
We already have multiple threads for the latter.
Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
That's always been happening tho. 40 min albums come out with 2 good songs and some filler. Some artists/producers can make a great flowing album. Others will make a what's essentially a mixtape and label it an album.
Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
Lmfao I didnt realize the OP was a video. I just saw drakes face and a play button and refused to click it
nah
back in the day, your single could go platinum alone...you didnt even have to buy the rest of the album if you didnt want to
see the "ringtone" era
im not trying to make this about Wayne, but just using him as an example, but lets say C5 was hypothetically trash, but only "uproar" was the song everyone gravitated to. He's getting credit for having a platinum album when everyone is only bumping one song
No lol
If we're talkin about padding stats, I still don't see an issue with it. If anybody has really sat down and thought about all of the variables, they shouldn't have an issue with it either.
We're in 2018, almost nobody buys physical music anymore. Back in the 90s people were forced to buy the entire album based on that 1 single and hope the rest of the album was fire. If you look at the 90s, they still sold way more albums than niggas are today. If we're keeping it a buck, Drake should've been close to having atleast 1 diamond album by now.
If u ask me, the streaming #s still don't add up to what the big artists should really be selling.
you could buy the single for as long as I can remember. You didnt HAVE to buy the whole album
are there other variables? sure, but the biggest issue is that b/c the songs are released individually as a collective, the songs people gravitate to just get added to playlists while the others get discarded, which was shown towards the end of the clip
Just imagine if streaming was around during the 2005-2009 era of rap. All them dance songs would have went platinum.
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not sure i followWhere do u think those "single" sells went towards in the 90s?
no troll
The streaming system is robbing these niggas and yall mfs think it's cheating FOR the artists lol
So eventhough everything is digital and nobody buys physical albums anymore, half the time the shit gets bootlegged online, but nah, let's not credit artists with streams cuz it's not a real sell? smh aight
So eventhough everything is digital and nobody buys physical albums anymore, half the time the shit gets bootlegged online, but nah, let's not credit artists with streams cuz it's not a real sell? smh aight
