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Will albums be relevant in 10 years?

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Unfortunately no. This is what happens when streaming comes into play. No one wants to buy things anymore. Piracy also hurt sales, but now streaming hurts them even more because it's legal piracy. Sales are dwindling badly (see: Sia #1 with 50k). It's really saddening this is what the industry is coming to, but it can't be helped. Everyone will start releasing weekly singles instead of albums; even the "older" acts who want to try and stay relevant (see: Cher). There will be a select few who might release albums (Taylor Swift) but the majority will probably just release buzz singles to stream on spotify playlists. 

 

It's disgusting and it already makes me sad thinking about it. The music industry is literally coming to an end. 

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Unfortunately no. This is what happens when streaming comes into play. No one wants to buy things anymore. Piracy also hurt sales, but now streaming hurts them even more because it's legal piracy. Sales are dwindling badly (see: Sia #1 with 50k). It's really saddening this is what the industry is coming to, but it can't be helped. Everyone will start releasing weekly singles instead of albums; even the "older" acts who want to try and stay relevant (see: Cher). There will be a select few who might release albums (Taylor Swift) but the majority will probably just release buzz singles to stream on spotify playlists. 

 

It's disgusting and it already makes me sad thinking about it. The music industry is literally coming to an end.

I'm crying because music inspires people... Music is dying... :(

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I don't really see why a switch to online streaming necessarily means the death of the album tho um1

 

If anything, when physical albums cease to exist there will be less of a cost for putting out album tracks since there will be no need to copy songs onto a physical disc. Instead they'll all just get uploaded onto Spotify/iTunes/whatever, which is basically free. So more money can go to producing/mastering tracks, which will hopefully actually mean MORE album tracks

 

Y'all are too pessimistic  oprah11

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Unfortunately no. This is what happens when streaming comes into play. No one wants to buy things anymore. Piracy also hurt sales, but now streaming hurts them even more because it's legal piracy. Sales are dwindling badly (see: Sia #1 with 50k). It's really saddening this is what the industry is coming to, but it can't be helped. Everyone will start releasing weekly singles instead of albums; even the "older" acts who want to try and stay relevant (see: Cher). There will be a select few who might release albums (Taylor Swift) but the majority will probably just release buzz singles to stream on spotify playlists. 

 

It's disgusting and it already makes me sad thinking about it. The music industry is literally coming to an end. 

 

You can argue that streaming is a bad thing, yeah it is a bad thing if you only count the album sales. Like I can go to youtube and put the lyric video only to listen to it and go from there. However, streams aren't completely free.   :22: 

 

They're probably just free for the user, however, everytime you go to a youtube video, there's an (annoying) ad about whatever. Companies pay money to be featured on those ads, and the more views you have, the better. That's how some people make money, off youtube/blog visitors/hits etc. I know because a friend told me of some people streaming themselves playing diablo3 or whatever, having an ad for 5 seconds up, and having like 10k viewers and making money off it dead2

Let's not forget the product placements on some of the videos, too. 

 

I don't know how spotify works, but there's ads too, unless you go premium (and you have to pay). I can only assume that the more people stream your song, you'll get a bigger share off it, however I could not confirm this and i'm only guessing, and I think that's why streams count, and should count for charts.   :shrug:

 

It's sad if you're nostalgic about great sales from people like britney, madonna, and so on, however it's just change, and we'll have new records being broken in the future. The records to beat will be no longer who had bigger sales, or who went platinum first; they'll be who had bigger streams, a la miley cyrus. 

 

Don't forget the streams will also increase your popularity, thus giving more chances for the musicians to tour, get modelling/acting gigs, perfumes, and so on. 

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I think the next move for artists will be to release a bunch of songs under an album title and allow fans to choose the songs they want on the album. For example, release 30 songs knowing their die hard fans will choose them all for the album and casual fans can choose the singles and other songs they like. This will be the next big thing to compete with online streaming. Other than that, I feel itunes should disallow people from buying non singles off of an album. The singles should be for sale, but not the individual album tracks. 

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