How Many Tracks Would Suffice?

[Cody James 1,517]

At this point, we better get a standard release with at least 15 tracks and a deluxe with 15 more (jk, maybe 5, with 3 being remixes). #needy

[Mylene 1,988]

13 perfect songs with no fillers is the best for me after that i found a little too long

[Doot 2]

10. 

[KatieJudasGaga4 67,907]

You guys will get nothing and like it 

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

15-21 tracks

[Judas Society 3,584]

12 to 13 is perfect album standard.

15 is usually the deluxe version where they include additional songs or remixes. But I never see the point of it as a consumer. It's for businesses to sell more copies after people bought the standard releases, then they will buy the deluxe editions just to get the few songs. But in the streaming era, this just seems kinda pointless.

But as a stan of an artists, obviously the more songs we get, the better. Though I much rather have a perfect quality of 12 to 13 songs, than 16 songs with rushed or imperfect production. BTW could cut a couple of songs and that is still the most impactful album by Gaga for me.

[freemymindARTPOP 2,455]

atleast 15

glam room palettes

OT: i think we hopefully are getting 15 or more maybe 15-20

[Edonis 28,950]

10 -13. Any more and it could risk being too long. I hope the songs are longer than 3 minutes too. 

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

At this point I'd be satisfied with 1

It better bop though 

[derpmonster 22,412]

Agree with 10 to 13. Some can be short, some can be long. Long ones can do well too. Plus there can be radio edits. 

3 minutes ago, Judas Society said:

But in the streaming era, this just seems kinda pointless.

Many artists put out long albums because if you listen to an album all the way through, you get more total streams + more songs for potential playlisting.

[Guest]

10-13 seems like a concise, satisfying number and I would be very content with it.

[Judas Society 3,584]

1 minute ago, derpmonster said:

Agree with 10 to 13. Some can be short, some can be long. Long ones can do well too. Plus there can be radio edits. 

Many artists put out long albums because if you listen to an album all the way through, you get more total streams + more songs for potential playlisting.

Never knew that. But do people really stream albums these days? I find that most streaming users tend to use the service to curate their own playlists of their favorite songs. This is why Ari is so successful with just churning out singles after singles after singles. She's playing the game of the industry right now.

Unfortunately Gaga's time was when album sales were going down. If the market climate were similar to that of the 90s, she would be an absolute queen of sales.

[TropicOfCANCER 6,292]

12-14 please. 

[derpmonster 22,412]

2 minutes ago, Judas Society said:

Never knew that. But do people really stream albums these days? I find that most streaming users tend to use the service to curate their own playlists of their favorite songs. This is why Ari is so successful with just churning out singles after singles after singles. She's playing the game of the industry right now.

Unfortunately Gaga's time was when album sales were going down. If the market climate were similar to that of the 90s, she would be an absolute queen of sales.

Look at how many songs there are on Lover. Since it was a highly anticipated album, people streamed the entire album and every single song charted. 

You have to build hype though. 

[LilyLark 10,103]

10-13 tracks. Streaming has made sales so weird tho—look at Harry Styles. Only one of his singles cracked the top 20, and yet his album had one of the biggest opening weeks of 2019. If Gaga wants to pump up her sales, I could see 10-13 tracks on a regular album with a few bonus tracks available only on physical copies of the album (like those Target special editions, etc.).