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Nothing you are saying is inaccurate. People bought albums because that’s how music was historically sold and they had no alternative. My understanding is that
by agotterer 6y ago
Nothing you are saying is inaccurate. People bought albums because that’s how music was historically sold and they had no alternative. My understanding is that artists also embraced that constraint and created albums to create a specific experience (vibe, song order, etc).
Apple started selling individual songs and for the first time people were able to buy music without buying the whole album. So yes, Apple killed the album.
- samatman 6y agoAlright, fair enough. Though I gotta say: I was around and listening to music at the time, and it was Napster which struck the death blow. Apple came along a couple years later to put the album out of its misery. The album doesn't seem dead, so much as diminished, but I know a harmless rhetorical flourish when I see one...