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Major label guy here. Not quite. While this isn’t as important for a lot of artists, on the top (like megastar-level: Drake, Post Malone, etc.), it’s still a hu
by lost_in_sauce 7y ago
Major label guy here. Not quite. While this isn’t as important for a lot of artists, on the top (like megastar-level: Drake, Post Malone, etc.), it’s still a huge money maker. More tracks means more streams which means more revenue.
The waterfall is effective, but the album is still important. Especially in the release week.
- dmix 7y agoWhat about cohesion in the album? I guess that prog-rock/indie/hiphop themed albums thing isn't very common in general these days, I'd be surprised to see one today from any new artist. The intros and skits would never fit into streaming properly, especially with the ranking algorithms. Nothing worse than getting some random intro skit come up on a recommended playlist! Spotify should run some detection algorithms on songs to not recommend the intros/skits, or the uploader can explicitly mark them for exclusion, which would help boost their singles and not push unhelpful songs I'm a big fan of artists releasing each song as it's made, with each having cover art and maybe a backup song. They . can still package them up in a full album for charting and full album sales.
- mason55 7y agoSpotify uses peoples manual playlists to drive some recommendations. If two songs are on a playlist together they’re probably similar. In the same way, if a song isn’t on any playlists, like you’d expect a skit not to be, then they don’t recommend it. Free human curation of stuff that goes well on playlists.
- sbuttgereit 7y agoPerhaps, but I still think we're a long way away from, say, something like "Dark Side of the Moon" being a viable approach anymore. I don't miss albums so much as cohesive, long-form genuinely artistic statements... (Fancy way of saying concept albums).