One of my biggest issues with the streaming era is the amount of songs albums have. This might be a generational issue since some of us grew up in the CD era where music was capped by 750MB space on a CD.

Gen Z might not care for the length of an album because their playlist is way more important than any album dropping.

But could DSPs value more concise efforts by adding x amount of records sold for front-to-back listen-throughs?

Or would we create just another method for labels and artists to scam good numbers?

I doubt it because much like the Instagram algorithm, the ultimate goal is to maintain the absolute peak use of the app and keep people on their screens.

Damn your right!

Old ass 90 babies better stick to Datpiff

It’s a new era 🤡

Streaming numbers are tied to the $ earned

I.e. counts as an album sale when roughly the equivalent of $10 has been earned from streams

Under that system no matter what longer projects are gonna be incentivized

Even if you switch to just pure streaming numbers and stop counting them as “album sales” bigger projects with more songs do more streams so they’re still gonna be long

There isn’t really a fix to this issue it’s just gonna be on artists and labels to decide to make concise projects even if it hurts their numbers

Music is f***ed.

Down the rabbit hole we go.

It's funny cause there's this theory that there used to be an album cap where after a certain number of tracks (12) you wasn't recieving mechanical royalties afterwards.

Thats a great idea!

A full listens album chart would be a great first step.