Today’a stars have released an INSANE amount of music

[inndaskKy]

Today's "artists" aren't really artists. They are just the face of a brand that needs to be sold. The "art" or "projects" are just some random thrown together stuff that anyone can make. The corporations just need a commodity that they can put a name on and sell for a price. AI is only gonna make this phenomenon worse obviously.

People need to stop acting like people claiming a certain profession today really have the same profession as people in the past with professions by that name did.

They're only using the same name for it so they can feel like they have achieved the same thing. This goes for just about any profession these days. Donald Trump was formally a "president" but everyone knows he wasn't really one in the same sense that Roosevelt and Lincoln were.

 

[Pool_Shark]

You also need to take into account how much easier it is to make music nowadays.

 

[s@n]

prolific musical output wasn't uncommon for jazz artists; look at any major player's catalogue and you'll see that dudes alternated between playing in and leading their own outfits on recordings over a few years or so. The major difference is that the music could be considered far superior from a quality standpoint, depending on one's opinion

 

[valet]

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

Yes, in some sense. But as far as albums, bodies of work. Naw. It's about singles, what's catchy on Tik tok videos. This young Gen dint have love for albums. More like plsylist

 

[CrimsonTider]

1.that’s literally a lie

2. There’s no proof of this

The proof is in the lack of impact and streams the album got.

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That album didn’t stay in the top 10 long and hasn’t been in the top 50 for a while

Today's "artists" aren't really artists. They are just the face of a brand that needs to be sold. The "art" or "projects" are just some random thrown together stuff that anyone can make. The corporations just need a commodity that they can put a name on and sell for a price. AI is only gonna make this phenomenon worse obviously.

People need to stop acting like people claiming a certain profession today really have the same profession as people in the past with professions by that name did.

They're only using the same name for it so they can feel like they have achieved the same thing. This goes for just about any profession these days. Donald Trump was formally a "president" but everyone knows he wasn't really one and the same sense that Roosevelt and Lincoln were.

What’s the difference between Gunna and Luda?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Yes, in some sense. But as far as albums, bodies of work. Naw. It's about singles, what's catchy on Tik tok videos. This young Gen dint have love for albums. More like plsylist

Albums are specifically for Stans. Chances are you will never be discussing deep album cuts, songs that grew on you, sequencing, cohesion or any of the other talking points that use to come with albums with someone that isn’t a stan for that artist

There’s numerous albums of artist that I wasn’t a huge fan of but loved an album they made. It’s damn near impossible for that to occur today

 

[Street Knowledge]

The proof is in the lack of impact and streams the album got.

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That album didn’t stay in the top 10 long and hasn’t been in the top 50 for a while


What’s the difference between Gunna and Luda?

1.)Claim the number 3 song in the country wasn’t a hit brehs

2.)Facts: Kendrick went 5 years without an album dropped the biggest rap tour in history. So yes you can afford to go long periods of time without music if you have an actual fanbase

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

Are we strictly talking about rap? Because there are a lot of artists from different genres that actually take their time

I don’t get the trying to sustain a fan base argument when half the dudes in op been around for years


This reminds me of how NBA Youngboy always releasing projects with 20 plus songs on there

That dude too stupid to remember all those songs

 

[EmojiFlame]

you can produce and distribute music (!) way faster and with way less people inbetween than yesterday's big stars

add the short attention-spans of most consumers today and it's no surprise everybody is releasing so much - ask yourself when the last time was when an album has been discussed for more than a week or longer

 

[ISO]

The proof is in the lack of impact and streams the album got.

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That album didn’t stay in the top 10 long and hasn’t been in the top 50 for a while


What’s the difference between Gunna and Luda?

Gunna makes better music

 

[Legal]

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

In fairness, back in the 60s and 70s, the album format was still pretty new, and a lot of artists and labels really did approach them as just longer versions of the single format. That's why you'd see folks like James Brown drop three albums in a year, and all of them were of different subgenres. One would be a soul album, one would be a funk album, another would ballads. Albums were also generally shorter back then. A lot of them were between 30 and 45 minutes, with less than 15 tracks.

These days, it's multiple releases of the same type of music, and you're likely looking at 20+ tracks, and an hour of music each. Even the artists know you're not listening to all that shyt more than once.

You also need to take into account how much easier it is to make music nowadays.

True. Way easier to record these days, and working with a mix of producers to get tracks done is really easy, too. Also, digital being the lead format makes it a lot easier to just get the music out there.

But if we're really being honest, what's inflating those numbers is the death of the mixtape for signed artists. A good portion of releases that get called albums are really just mixtapes, and would've been called such in the past. Current label deals have killed that off, though.

 

[CrimsonTider]

1.)Claim the number 3 song in the country wasn’t a hit brehs

2.)Facts: Kendrick went 5 years without an album dropped the biggest rap tour in history. So yes you can afford to go long periods of time without music if you have an actual fanbase

Nothing from that album was hit record. Go Stan Kendrick somewhere else

 

[ISO]

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.

Who said? Nikkas would take years and drop a mid commercialized project.

For that list in the OP nikkas like Yak and Durk their output is prolific and a lot of them albums and tapes are legit dope

 

[GetRichOrDieTryin]

If you think about it, the last two BIG rappers were wayne and 50 (excluding drake ofc)

Both flooded the market

The problem today is, its easier to put out music for one, and its just easier to make too. as long as the beat is good and ur flow is good, no one really digs into the songs

 

[CrimsonTider]

You also need to take into account how much easier it is to make music nowadays.

Forgot about this.

Production is cheaper, songs can be recorded anywhere. Artist don’t use R&B features anymore to get a record to crossover