Is this the solution for saving the album from extinction?
The album has been the main currency of the recorded music industry since about 1965 when it took over from
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Albums
What form will music take after COVID-19: Albums, EPs, playlists, or mixtapes?
There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our
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Is the death of the album nigh?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved
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Do people listen to full albums as much as they used to? This survey says they don’t.
Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on
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Weekly survey: Do you still listen to albums from start to finish?
Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one
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New study says we’re listening to albums all wrong
Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with
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The concept of the album is falling from favour. What’s next?
For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced
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The album is dead, right? Maybe not.
Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single
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Is the concept of the album dead? Maybe not.
There’s concern in some quarters that the idea of releasing an album is passé, that the format has been superseded
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The album is dead (or at least dying). Best get used to it.
As the currency of the realm, the album caught a cold the original Napster made it possible to just grab
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Weekly survey: name albums with three immortal killer tracks in a row
Sequencing an album is hard. You want to make sure that the first song ropes in the listener enough to
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