Wanting to see if anybody has any unique suggestions here. I’ve got 31 songs recorded for a 12-15 song album. I’ve mostly narrowed down the 13 I want to save for the album, but there’s a lot of good material here and I don’t wanna throw the other tracks away (I don’t finish songs if I don’t fw them heavily).

So one idea was dropping 3 EP’s and then the album, but the issue there is that at the same time I’d be dropping singles and it might just be kind of confusing. I basically need the EP’s to be promotion for the album.

Idk. I like to drop singles. they're fun and can become their own thing.

Such a complicated thing lol. We’ve dropped two albums that got strong responses, then we went the route of just dropping singles for a year or so. Doing the singles by themselves got a pretty good response but it never felt like it climaxed, like it did with the albums. Then we dropped EP’s which did ok, but definitely felt less impactful than doing the albums, or even the singles by themselves tbh.

I mean we could go the route of dropping singles, and maybe drop most of the songs as singles before finally releasing the album. The downside there is people getting burned out on constantly listening and sharing new s*** if we’re dropping all the time, and with this amount of music if I wanted to do a single a week it would take like half a year

Might not be a bad move though

got the same "problem" lol. what i'm doing rn is releasing a cut or 2 that didn't make the album >single for album > album > ep >more cuts/ another ep

it all depends on your goals.

I like to let me songs live their own lives. there's no underlying theme. life is just a series of moments. so that's why I conceptually just drop singles.

On the business tip. it just makes more sense to reach more people. I get that you think that people are getting burned out but it takes 5-7 times before you can even genuinely get someone's attention.

Unless you have a ravenous fanbase, I would go with the single route because it leaves people who are curious something to eat for a bit and could potentially grow your audience to the point where it makes financial sense to drop a longer form project.

Kind of leaning to dropping a large amount of singles, and then dropping the album just with whichever songs I don’t think would stand as well on their own. So probably like 8 singles

Frustrating stuff

I'd maybe look at it less in terms of individual projects, and more in terms of individual songs. Let them breathe on their own.

I'm kind of in the same position as you and just testing the waters too brother. I'm just uploading a song every 3-4 days and seeing what sticks, if anything.

What you could do is, drop 4-5 of the loosies at once at the end of a run of 1-2 track weeks.

There's genuinely no right way to do things like this, but 100 wrong ways haha.