I think the shift in media nowadays will be to smaller artists but there will be much more of them. niche micro-celebrities are the new thing due to ppl being able to relate to them more easily and the resources of the music and entertainment industry need to be distributed further.

Albums come and go because everything comes and goes in today’s age of endless distraction and endless novelty. The internet destroyed our attention span and our ability to focus.

Before parents would have to buy you the physical CD and if you weren’t using it they’d beat the s*** out of you for wasting their money

august sipped away like a bottle of wine

Lmfaoooo my fault

Where did I say streaming was bad

It's just not as fulfilling as it could be because of how easy it is to lose track of everything you find and enjoy.

Yeah the 9-10/10 albums stay forever but how many of those drop every year? I'm talking about the tons of cool little projects that drop that are easy to find but hard to sort through after you saved them

Do mfs really stay streaming just Blonde, TLOP, 4:44 non-stop every day

not ALL albums though...
from this year alone, we got some REAL classics:

Pino Palladino + Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
MNDSGN - Rare Pleasure
BBNG is shaping up to be amazing too

that madlib album aint no f***ing classic lmao

Niggas itt act like only 5 albums per year came out before streaming

Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

I’m not even trying to be funny that album has had a huge impact from its rollout and singles and promo and it’s stayed on the charts for an insanely ridiculous amount of time

Yep, a genuine hit album!

Lolll

Yeah definitely, I think there are more positives than negatives. There are also less barriers fr independent artists too. So many smaller artists I would never have listened to if it wasnt for streaming.

Overall it's a positive, but I ws just talking about the negatives in this thread.

More rap album going number 1 than ever but hardly ever last more than 1 week. It’s really hard to hold attention or fans

Fr

A lot of the s*** people gas and give acclaim these days don’t really seem to impact on a real way long term. For example that Tyler Creator album

Felt like it wasn’t a factor after a couple weeks although people claimed they love it

Streaming is good for the consumer because they have most single or album releases instantly and have a variety of music to pick from but with that comes listening to an album or single once or twice and moving on even if the music is good. DSPs encourage that too so you stay on the app longer. Not so great for most indy artists and "mid-level" artists because they don't get the promo but its always a bigger artists with something else to offer and being promoted.

That’s why artists should release 3 albums a year and keep the streets on fire

They come and go b/c no one brings in the white board, talk, and brain storm in the studio. They just hop in the booth and drop ass bars and damn the beats don’t even be sounding cool these days....

Take a 3 years break if you dope. Put out albums every year If you a fast food ass nigga.

i guess but this is just true of everything rather than just music... everything is competing with everything for attention span & everyone's attention span is COOKED there is not enough time in the day to catch up w everything yet everything is available 24/7

i still have a bunch of albums im obsessed with from this year that im burning myself out on though, it's just everything media related comes & goes inclduing news stories