Mixtapes in the old form/definition don't really exist today. Mixtapes have progressed, as the entire way of consuming music in general has progressed.

Someone streaming a song on a mixtape site, and someone streaming a song on Spotify is basically the same thing. One generates money though and that one can also make your music gain a wider platform/traction, which is the entire point of mixtapes for upcoming artists.

It doesn't make sense NOT to release a mixtape on Spotify/Apple Music.

It is

don’t let them fool you

Amazing post

It literally was never pushed as an album she always called it a mixtape lol

Because she is an artist and can decide how she wants her album to be classified

along w every other answer already, aint there a clause in her contract requiring a certain length out of a studio album? cuz if that's the case ion think she's legally able to bill it as her debut

So it literally is just semantics.

she signed to 300

they always do this

Nope. It's pretty obvious lookin at what he's said. Yal are just stuck in 2012

albums and mixtapes are interchangable nowadays.

I agree with you strongly on this op and this is exactly how I felt when I made the thread about PNB Rock having 3 debut albums (then some guy on reddit stole my thread and presented it as his own). Album flops, label changes marketing to "mixtape" or "Playlist" or whatever they wanna call it then it repeats until either you sell or you get dropped

the project that the artist and label decide is the debut is the debut, thats the rules

it's really bc mixtapes don't count as albums in these artists' contracts, and their labels get to decide whether a project is album-quality or not. (hint: they usually say it's not)

It is

Whatever the artist says it is, is what it is.

People are now calling traditional full-length albums "projects", "digital albums", and "playlists". It's not so much about how much promotion it gets, but how the artist and their label decide to label it.

I guess there's a marketing/financial incentive involved but to see everyone dancing around the word "album" is low-key hilarious.

She said it was a debut album till after the first week

With the way music is so easily released these days, I feel like the "debut" is the album that comes out after the artist has officially arrived on the scene and is given a rollout, legitimate industry backing, etc

Maybe not necessarily from the industry, but the project they put out once all eyes are on them

ie: Jack Harlow, Meg, Lil Uzi, etc etc

What was her fw sales

I thought Tina Snow was the debut

It’s all bullshit and they make up what they are called

At the end of the day there isn’t a material difference. They are all projects of original music that you can stream /buy

There isn’t a difference anymore like it used to be. Mixtapes would be for free download with maybe other peoples beats, and then albums would be available to buy with original music

its literally whenever they decide to call it an album. only way you can really tell at this point is in how its rolled out

There's even cases where its called album originally, and once it flops they'll just call it a "project" and then try again next go around

s*** all doesn't have much meaning anymore and the quality between all these terms have blended to the point you can't tell the difference unless you witnessed how the project released

They call it a mixtape if they think the project isn’t good enough to be a studio album OR they think the project is going to flop

Everything is a mixtape until it sells 80k first week. Young Thug’s debut album was technically So Much Fun which even he knows is not the case