Today’a stars have released an INSANE amount of music

[CrimsonTider]

Remember when DMX releasing 2 albums in one year was unheard of?

Remember Jayz bragging about releasing an album every year?

Gucci releasing multiple tapes a year use to be unique


The output from artist now is unbelievable and it makes you wonder is it possible to be a star in this era and you don’t release a lot of music( SZA being a slight anomaly)

# of projects

Gunna 11

Lil baby 11

21 savage 7

Kodak 17

Lil Uzi 10

Lil Durk 25

YB. 35

Is something like this sustainable?

Maybe Ross, Wayne, Drake and Future late 00s, and early 10s normalized this type of output

 

[tremonthustler1]

folks don't have the attention span to remember someone's name by the end of a conversation.

 

[Da King]

Quality >>> quantity


Most of the projects released by these “stars” are disposable and easily forgotten

 

[CrimsonTider]

Quality >>> quantity


Most of the projects released by these “stars” are disposable and easily forgotten

You’re a troll but do you think Stars of the past would be able to go years without releasing projects if they were stars today?

 

[nieman]

You’re a troll but do you think Stars of the past would be able to go years without releasing projects if they were stars today?

Sure they would. Beyonce, Taylor Swift

 

[Street Knowledge]

Sure they would. Beyonce, Taylor Swift

Kendrick went 5 years without an album and just had the highest grossing rap tour in history

 

[Complexion]

Back when artists would cook and season to perfection, like your grams cooking. These days its more of a microwave flex because the model changed and attention spans as well.

Back in the days an album would hit for months if not years at a stretch as we span it over and over again. Nowadays they stream whatever trends and its as quickly forgotten because its all so disposable. Makes me wonder what would kick if a new Thriller came through and crushed the buildings tho. Would it stand alone or get lost in the mix as well, regardless of how well it was made and presented?

Now, if you'll excuse me I've just had a fresh deliveries of onions to tie to my belt as I watch reruns on VHS.

 

[Ahadi]

Put out a lot of BS then sell your catalog

 

[SchoolboyC]

We’re living in a microwave era, people don’t sit with projects like they used to. And also I think certain artists/labels feel if they aren’t constantly pumping out content then audiences will move on

 

[Reality Check]

Quality >>> quantity

This can't be stressed enough. Congrats on releasing 1,000 songs but it's not a good ratio if only 5% of them have replay value.

 

[valet]

Nothing special about music anymore. Too many options to entertain ourselves with

 

[CrimsonTider]

Kendrick went 5 years without an album and just had the highest grossing rap tour in history

Kendrick isn’t really relevant to this convo because he came up and built his audience in a different era?

Also that Kendrick project didn’t leave any lasting impression on the culture, no hit records and slid off the charts quickly and is being outsold by his previous albums and not the reason his tour grossed so much

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nothing special about music anymore. Too many options to entertain ourselves with

Music is still special to the demos that music is marketed too(teens and young adults). It’s just consumed differently

 

[Street Knowledge]

Kendrick isn’t really relevant to this convo because he came up and built his audience in a different era?

Also that Kendrick project didn’t leave any lasting impression on the culture, no hit records and slid off the charts quickly and is being outsold by his previous albums and not the reason his tour grossed so much

1.that’s literally a lie

2. There’s no proof of this

 

[I love Latina women]

artists like James Brown use to do this shyt way back in the day

he'd release albums like them shyts was singles, sometimes 2 or 3 albums a year