Now that physical formats are practically dead, will the album format eventually die too?

Now that physical formats are practically dead, will the album format eventually die too?

The album format spawned from vinyl records, it was a commercial way of releasing lots of songs in bulk.

No. Albums are better then ever because there's no restrictions on the length of it. Artists will always release albums, they aren't going to suddenly go back to writing nothing but hit singles just because CD's aren't as popular.

But most albums are just a collection of mostly unrelated *new* songs delivered in one sing package for economic convienience. Probably only 5 % of albums are meant to be listened to all the way through in one event, and this trend was mostly popular in the 60s-70s.

pop musicians will release singles and serious musicians will release albums.

Only if you're a poptimist.

Good question!

>Physical formats
>Practically dead

I hope you are joking. Digital is fucking shit.

>physical formats are practically dead

>vinyls currently selling more than they have since the 80s
>tapes currently selling more than they have since the 90s

This is a meme for poptimists. Every album except top-40 shit is sequenced and mixed so that it can provide a cohesive experience when listened to the proper way. Only ADHD kids need excitement in 4-minute burts, it's like going on YT and watching one scene from a movie

Now compare it to digital download and streaming

Why do you see the singles format as /less serious/?

You do know for an overwhelming majority of popular music history releasing music as one song was default, right? Ever seen an Edison cylinder?

Before recorded music, music wasn't written in album format, it was written in one long piece.

The album format is a commercial meme.

Vinyl meme is crashing though.

When? Where?

>it's like going on YT and watching one scene from a movie

That's a retarded analogy. Music is not a storytelling medium.

This. I think most bands/artists (at least the ones who actually use the medium as an expression and not just to become famous and rich) have a lot to say than a single track can cover. Sure some songs might sound vastly different on the same album but will fit into a general theme

>Sure some songs might sound vastly different on the same album but will fit into a general theme

That's just your imagination. Alot of albums contain songs that are written years apart from each other. Sometimes an album contains songs that are scraps from older albums.

Example: Kid A

Face it, all this shits just a meme you bought into.

>music is not a storytelling medium

It's not. Unless you're a lyrics guy, in which you should just be reading literature because lyrics=/=music.

>music is not a storytelling medium because i ignore the storytelling part of music

The human voice is used as a musical instrument, lyrics are sung just for thematic reasons often no real narrative.

Still, lyrics=/=music

Singing is music, but lyrics are literature.

I work at a record store, and you're wrong. More kids are buying vinyl than ever before. It's extremely popular among younger kids, especially girls.

Lol at this bait

so through using your voice as an instrument by singing lyrics that depict a story, music becomes a medium for storytelling.. or am i missing something

>It's extremely popular among younger kids, especially girls.

Which is more proof that it is on its way out. When the vinyl revival meme first amerged it was mostly popular with millennial males.

They sell p4k vinyl records at every chain bookstore and coffeeshop. Face it, this bubble has popped and everyone who was originally involved in the vinyl meme is running far away from it.

>this delusion

how much longer do think the whole "vinyl craze" is gonna last? I notice that most people who buy records don't even have a way to play them.

>Before recorded music, music wasn't written in album format, it was written in one long piece.

and whaddya know, most symphonies, sonatas and concertos just happen to be roughly album-length!

It's almost as if the human brain tends to find 40 to 70 minutes as the desirable norm for a cohesive musical piece, and thus the album format is absolutely fine!

Ain't that neat?

Then how about instead of writing many tracks, just write and record one big one?

This nigga

>it's like going on YT and watching one scene from a movie
But lots of people do just that.

You have got to be autistic. I mean that seriously. Fucking listen to yourself.

god, this annoys the shit out of me.

Because the industry will never let that be very commercially successful. Fuck, anything too much longer than 5 minutes never gets played on a radio station, much less an hour and a half. Although, it would be an incredible artistic feat to do that in an original and fluid way.

Anyone who thinks the album is gunna last much longer is deluding themselves. Sure, it won't go completely away, but EPs and singles will be the standard procedure soon. Mark my words.