And is anyone else irked by the way WildRanger phrases their thread titles? They're a weird, awful mix of conjecture, question, and statement that don't gel well when put together. Like this thread, for example...
"Spotify shows us that today it’s all about the singles and not albums ?"
"Spotify shows us" - so we start with a statement, which doesn't sound like the beginning of a question. If it was a question, it should read something like "Does Spotify show us..."
"...that today," - missing a comma
"it's all about the singles and not albums" - the "the" before singles feels superfluous, and greater emphasis on the "NOT" would help clarify the claim. "It's all about singles and NOT albums"
Maybe I am just being picky, but this isn't the first WildRanger thread title that is very hard to decipher based on poor grammar. The "Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?" thread title REALLY bothered me every time I saw it on page one. Maybe they don't speak/read/write English as their first language, which would be excusable, but it can often make it hard to understand what they are trying to ask/state/say.
Anyways, back on THIS topic, it wouldn't surprise me if the general consensus of singles-over-albums starts to turn, especially now that I think about the growing popularity and resurgence of vinyl LPs in the last 5 or so years. More and more music lovers, of all kinds, are getting into vinyl, and I feel like it takes a certain mindset to get into vinyl - those who enjoy albums over singles. Why go through all the trouble to buy a record player and a vinyl if you're just going to spin one of the dozen songs on it? Perhaps artists are treating their records as singles collections more and more, though, just like the above referenced Ed Sheeran example, giving fans more digestible material in album-length chunks. Most popular artists might not take the kinds of experimental risks that artists did in the past that would fill out the rest of a normal album, but that could just be producer/management/label interference more than anything. I'm not very knowledgeable in the music industry or pop music, so I can't be too sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if that wasn't far from the truth.
-Marc.