• Less focus on album art direction/packaging etc
• Songs targeted purely towards playlists
• Bieber has released 6 EPs of his recent album which are utterly pointless

No but its ruined the specialty of a release

Albums come and go now no matter how good they are our attention spans suck

So maybe its due to the medium and ease in which we are consuming music now

Kinda

Not for me

yes but in a much bigger way it’s really ruined the way the majority of people listen to and treat new releases. It’s instantly disposable. When you had to actually go get a CD, you had the whole album, you couldn’t delete tracks and edit them and s*** to make a playlist. The element of time and living with a project as a whole is basically going away in the mainstream and people actually defend this type of s*** too. “I know how I feel first listen everytime”

depends on the artist tbh

lorde and frank only dropped 2 albums last decade but people are still talking about them nonstop, it's not like they've become irrelevant. quality> quantity

Yes

No

Maybe

Is DatPiff run considered streaming era?

this is the 100th thread

No because those are mixtapea

If you include the full history with napster and s*** then technically yea

Yup.

Glad I stuck with the iPod classic.

Touch me and remind me what I like

Yes and No

Music is far more accessible now, which is an advantage to enthusiasts

However as noted earlier, s*** is more disposable for the casuals

It ruined album eras

Yes, it doesn't even take an intuitive person to come to this conclusion.

the music being marketed and released this way was disposable before the tracks were even finished. I'm not upset that ill never get to have a "first listen experience" to a new full length justin bieber album

Can’t emphasise this enough