i feel like making the hit single would be harder than the acclaimed album personally?

making a song that the general public will love for decades and is also considered one of the best

i’m the coochie man, but i’m also a certified lover boy (he/they)

best of both worlds

it would be harder imo to make an club level iconic single imo

no way me too

yea i been practicing

crazy how Drake’s junior studio album “Nothing Was The Same” accomplished this task seamlessly and effortlessly

so did ye with LR.....

Critically acclaimed is easy af nowadays. Just make some weird / almost unlistenable s*** and watch Reddit and the YouTube reviewers eat that s*** up.

Prime example: 1000 gecs

niggas like you are by far the majority opinion on 100 gecs lmao

critically acclaimed means blonde or mbdtf not an underground band a couple vocal ppl like that u don’t fw

so would I rather be kendrick or drake is what ur asking

100 gecs is good tho

Do I have an unlimited budget for both?

Cuz if so I'm calling Max Martin and Metro Boomin and we're making a transcendent club smash single

I feel like with how fast the data science industry has grown, there’s gotta be a way to get a hit down to a science right?

I’m sure there’s an algorithm being fed hits non stop to calculate length, cadence, inflection, features, bpm, etc

No not really songs have been getting shorter tho

critics dont pay the bills dog

Depends on the place where you are on your career. If it's your first album then you will have some clout and ears for your next proyect. If I'm on my last years? Iconic single no question, plus all the new eyes on my catalogue making me more money.

It's much harder to make a universal single imho, especially in the streaming age where music is so compartmentalized compared to the past.

Plus, certain critics have agendas or biases for giving some albums high ratings. Invasion of Privacy's reviews alone are proof of that.