I understand so much 🎶 comes out today but why don't people listen to full albums. Only their favorite songs.

What do you mean?

it’s pretty self explanatory & largely depends on how much effort the artist put into making it worth playing the full album as opposed to the album being a glorified playlist

op really just made a thread to ask “why do people listen to songs they like”

I mean haven’t it always been this way with music? When album first drop the first few spins are full and then as time goes on you just listen to your favorite songs for the most part.

I did though because people usually listen to just the hit songs and forgot about a whole album the musician(singer/rapper) made.

Most people never did

U told on yourself

Musician(singer/rapper) ?

Nope actually I just stated listening to some full albums recently by present musicians(rappers/pop singers) who I don't really listen too because I work at a part time job that is boring so I have my headphones on.

🦪

Yes they are musicians.

A.D.H.D

Nah people just don't have the patience to listen to a whole album. A album I basically a book by a musician.

Facts, music listeners have been making mixtapes since the dawn of the recordable cassette tape

Yep this is the norm. Listening to an album in full all the time is reserved for truly avid music listeners or albums that are the exception (aka albums where each song is a crazy banger within a concise and consistent whole)

We only think it’s different cause we have social media to document our own awareness of it

Nothing you said is wrong.

not in the LP era which made people listen all the way through more just cuz they couldnt skip songs as efficiently like that

This is also true pre-Nielsen era really

The short answer is streaming

The long answer is an a***ysis of brain and behavior altering of the youth through dopamine.

Books are awesome.

Playlists killed the listening experience in that aspect.

i see what you mean but there was definitely a time when non-avid music listeners were listening to full albums regularly

there were definitely millions of casual music fans spinning albums like Dark Side of the Moon, Rumors etc. in full. and even for the bigger more singles-oriented acts. i dont think its really something to mourn though its just different ways of listening due to the dominant formats of the time and both should be appreciated

i saw you already responded though just now lol