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BIGMOZ
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With Bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd....I understood the purpose of the album. It wasn't solely to force the consumer to purchase a packaged product. The albums had songs that were all linked in some manner. PF Dark Side of the Moon was a concept album; The Beatle's Abbey Road was the same. But in HipHop, an album is a disconnected piece of individual tracks. Songs have little to nothing to do with each other, other than the rapper is rapping about the same thing (women, money, violence). Why are they still trying to push albums onto the public?
From the label's side, I assume its that they are hoping that the consumer purchases the entire package ($12) as opposed to select individual tracks for $.99.
From the artist's side, I just don't get it, other than for Branding purposes (Carter I, II, II; Maybach Music I, II, II, etc). Why don't artists focus on individual tracks and push those through distributors like iTunes, Amazon, etc? The artist's tours can be based on all the singles that they release as opposed to albums. This also takes away the industry's focus on first week sales. You get a steady revenue stream through the year based on your catalog of singles.
I'm sure there are good reasons for the industry still pushing albums, but I'm probably overlooking them.
From the label's side, I assume its that they are hoping that the consumer purchases the entire package ($12) as opposed to select individual tracks for $.99.
From the artist's side, I just don't get it, other than for Branding purposes (Carter I, II, II; Maybach Music I, II, II, etc). Why don't artists focus on individual tracks and push those through distributors like iTunes, Amazon, etc? The artist's tours can be based on all the singles that they release as opposed to albums. This also takes away the industry's focus on first week sales. You get a steady revenue stream through the year based on your catalog of singles.
I'm sure there are good reasons for the industry still pushing albums, but I'm probably overlooking them.