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BUtterfield 8

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5 hours ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

For fans, though, consuming an excessive amount of music from the same artist in one sitting is often tedious and doesn’t make for a great listening experience.

If the music is redundant, from fast food artists I agree. If it's qualitative work with amazing artists, would've been different. I mean, who wouldn't wanna sit for hours listening to the greatest artists out there? Makes sense that no one wanna spend a lot of time listening to Migos, kills your brain cells after a while

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38 minutes ago, KanyeWest said:

If the music is redundant, from fast food artists I agree. If it's qualitative work with amazing artists, would've been different. I mean, who wouldn't wanna sit for hours listening to the greatest artists out there? Makes sense that no one wanna spend a lot of time listening to Migos, kills your brain cells after a while

Couldn’t agree more…

Yesterday I listened to Mary J. Blige’s “Strength of a Woman” album twice in a row because I love it so much. The album is 14 tracks long and has a duration of 58 minutes. :rockstar:

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The Fame Monster

100% disagree. :wtfga:

Albums are too short. Songs are too short.

For example, I would imagine loving Chromatica even more if it had a few extra songs and each of the songs would be at least +20-30 seconds longer. :firega:

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Sneaky Oliver

Less-known artists can put out longer albums because they don’t have that much listeners so they will get more streams from less people.

Big artists benefit from the short albums because the fans will listen to the album over and over again so it needs replay value and longer albums don’t have that. They don’t need to worry about getting streams from the first listens. 
 

At the end of the day, everyone wants to make their money!

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Queen Bitch

Aren’t songs also getting shorter?

I honestly don’t care if an album has 40+ songs as long as they’re great.

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Lextyr97

I don’t care about length unless the tracks are good. I listen to like 6 tracks on Folklore for example, so in my world that album is like 20 minutes cause I skip the rest lol all about quality

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Teletubby

People are not buying albums of these rappers, they are mostly streaming so they put more songs to earn more from streaming. 
Last week Pop Smoke's album debuted at #1 on Billboard 200 with 88K equivalent album units but only 4K were traditional album sales.

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LilMonst3r

Honestly

i prefer albums to be shorter. Majority of the time when there are long songs in an album its the instrumental that takes up most of the time. When you have multiple songs with basically the same

compositions the album time stretches out.
It depends on the genre and content. If  a writer is taking you through a lyrical journey then they Can make the song as is needed but many writers just follow the same song structures and it creates long albums that people really dont have time for. The market is getting inflated now days with many artists and I think most people would listen to and entire album thats like 30 or 45 minutes long. 

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7 hours ago, CHIPCHROME said:

Growing up a Lana fan I didn't really think about it like that... imo albums are getting shorter

I think they are getting shorter in pop thays why everyone on GGD who listens to a lot of pop doesnt get these remarks but ive noticed non mainstream artists some do have pretty long albums

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8 hours ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

For fans, though, consuming an excessive amount of music from the same artist in one sitting is often tedious and doesn’t make for a great listening experience.

This is true and false though. It truly depends on the artist.

For example, I can listen to 6 Taylor albums back to back, each of them being 55-80 minutes in length and it doesn’t feel like a chore at all, rather something I quite enjoy.

Some artists (Drake for example imo), have similar album lengths, but have a lot of filler tacked alongside some genuinely great songs that makes it much harder to do the same thing. A 22 song album might have 10 songs that are completely worth the time, but the other 12 make it hard to want to keep going on the album’s journey. 

It’s really dependant on what you’re looking for in an artist, because nowadays it’s completely fine to just make a playlist of the songs by a certain artist you want to listen to rather than being tasked with playing CDs back to back. I have artists where I do the former and I have other artists where I do the latter, and neither experience is worse or less substantial than the other, just different :spin:

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Ziggy

So based on this...rap albums are getting too long because everything seems to be clocking in around 45ish minutes these days :laughga:

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Cruelty

So just so we're clear... albums are getting too long (present-tense) but they've been too long for ages and in fact they were longer in the 90s but we're only writing about this now; 50 minutes is simply too long to sit down and listen to music (what?!); and fans hate it when their favourite artists give them music (this is based on a wholly subjective view of songs as 'redundancies and songs that should have been left on the cutting room floor').

Gotta admire the desperate attempt to reconcile the unsubstantiated opinion "long albums are awful and we've had enough of them" with the verifiable fact "long albums such as Drake's broke streaming records".

And any article that goes straight from "long albums allow struggling musicians to earn more money in a streaming-dominated world, especially in a pandemic" to "but long albums are terrible and awful because of... reasons" is not really worth any of our time.

Yeah, this was definitely written in a hurry on a Friday afternoon.

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littlepotter

The article is talking about hip hop releases and it's published on a hip hop website. Exactly why did pop fans decide to take offense and disagree with it when it's not talking about pop music :bear:

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weed

Albums are only getting too long because songs are getting too short and people want streaming success. A 10 song album could also be 50 minutes lol

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