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To be fair, the idea of the concept album only goes back a few decades. Before that, most albums were made to pad and sell singles. Nothing has changed today in
by kakarot 9y ago
To be fair, the idea of the concept album only goes back a few decades. Before that, most albums were made to pad and sell singles. Nothing has changed today in that respect. There are plenty of modern artists that produce concept albums. It's all a matter of where you look. If you're looking at the Top 40, well yeah, that has always been single-driven music since the dawn of radio.
- KGIII 9y agoThere are still a few out there, but it is not nearly as popular as it once was. Even Zofo sold a story. I recall them being more popular, leading to rocumentaries and rock operas, things like that. They do still exist, just not as frequent and not as popular, at least not from what I see. Unfortunately, they also didn't last very long. I'd say they went fairly strong for about 2.5 decades. Their peek sort of correlated with arena rock in the 70s and 80s. There is still some arena rock, but that seems to be tapering off.