Kiss is the best pop album of the year, and nobody is listening. The problem is not the artists or the songs, but the format that's being used here as a measur

Kiss is the best pop album of the year, and nobody is listening. The problem is not the artists or the songs, but the format that's being used here as a measure of success. Her album didn't do well because her fans don't buy albums. Her fans will buy songs, one at a time, at 69c a pop. The article even states that it's a "singles driven market". All of the delivery mechanisms (iTunes, Pandora, Last, YouTube, Facebook, Xbox) funnel listeners into the on-demand or magic playlist style of listening. Songs are standalone entities served up as a recommendation, a link or a search result. For this generation the idea of listening to an album is pretty much dead.