From Drake and Zayn to Kanye and James Blake, 2016 has been littered with albums marred by ridiculous run-times, each spanning over 17 tracks. Are artists getting more ambitious, or is there a cynical reason behind the bloat? Jeremy Allen unpicks America’s nonsensical new streaming rules that suggest it’s the latter.
New rules mean that individual singles all count towards the chart progress of an album. So the question is, are artists upping production to take advantage of the fact that individual song streams now contribute to chart placement? It’s fairly simple arithmetic: the more songs to stream, the higher an album charts, hence the heft. L’Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg, Reign In Blood by Slayer, Sleater Kinney by Sleater Kinney, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside by Earl Sweatshirt – all under half an hour in length – may not have been held in the same high esteem had the CEO of the label said, “Great, but could you pad it out with another half an hour of filler to get it up the charts?”
http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/28/albums-are-too-long-and-streaming-rules-are-to-blame/
Als dit echt de rede is waarom The Colour In Anything zo lang is, ben ik heel teleurgesteld.