so ye put out a pile of shyt, drake album came and went as did beyonce's. the fukk is goin' on?

[dora_da_destroyer]

Also, some of y'all need to detach from social media and even these forums when it comes to music, the best thing i did for myself in the last ~year is start listening to albums when I wanted to...without everyone's "me first" opinions all in the mix. I got like 3 curren$y tapes to get to, still ain't listened to drake, and have been playing random shyt i come across on spotify....I'm enjoying music much more now that I reclaimed how i want to experience it. I don't care if something "came and went" if I'm still playing it 7 months later

 

[Serious]

 

[Cynic]

The game done changed.

it used to be like:

Media Buzz for Album
Single to build interest in album
Album drops = Sales
Promo tour for album
Second Single = Sales
Controversy = Sales.
Third single = Sales,
Movie Soundtracks, etc.

But nobody buys albums anymore like that, and the labels are scared shytless. Cant push an artist if they don't recoup. And everybody that's gonna buy your album is gonna buy it within that first month, unless that artist gets spread by word of mouth.

So no real multi-social media push for music means we don't see a bunch of singles on tv and the radio, maybe for the first month.

"Dat album came and went."

Think about it. Remeber the time where an artist would drop, they'd have their singles they'd be all over everybody elses albums. Folks would go out and buy hard copies. They'd be in your face for 4 to 6 months. 10 mil sold.

Now, everybody got your shyt the day it dropped, legally or illegally. It's been reviewed 500 times. Your core base bought it. Singles? What singles?

Record labels now really just wanna push albums out as fast as possible and get the artist on tour to skim some kind of profit.

The game done changed.

Frank Ocean, Bruno Mars and Usher are all

The Weeknd out here beasting over Breezy and Beiber
What happened to Sam Smith and Macklemore LGBT wave
Alsina and Ty dollar sign getting the Lyfe Jennings treatment
Bryson Tiller still bigger than Elijah Blake

Will Beyonce/Riri ever let Tinashe/Kehlani/Tink eat ?


Ariana out here struggling to crack 200K+


Music biz is f*cked

 

[KathleenJohnson]

Sports and Reality TV are at the forefront of American Culture (Cable has 500 channels versus 50 in the 90s)

Also, Soundcloud/Tumblr/YouTube allow all sorts of smaller acts to usurp attention megastars would have monopolized (music festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo are huge)

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Also, some of y'all need to detach from social media and even these forums when it comes to music, the best thing i did for myself in the last ~year is start listening to albums when I wanted to...without everyone's "me first" opinions all in the mix. I got like 3 curren$y tapes to get to, still ain't listened to drake, and have been playing random shyt i come across on spotify....I'm enjoying music much more now that I reclaimed how i want to experience it. I don't care if something "came and went" if I'm still playing it 7 months later

This is actually how I listened to IYRTITL. I didn't allow a stanbase to convince me it was a top 3 album 30 minutes after it came out, nor haters slandering it without even listening. And it made for a much better listening experience, and it helped that it turned out to be a really good album.

On the flipside, no amount of wait and social media absence would have convinced me that the dumpster known as Views was good.

 

[Zero]

You want to hear men talking bout Beyoncé album

I'm sayin