What is the album future ?

While researching on the net, we found an interesting article published by Slate with several links to other interesting articles. Following one of these links we found an article published by the New York Times (free registration required).

This article explains that record companies hesitate now, for newly signed artist, to commit to the investment required by a full size album. Instead they sign these artists for 2 songs and decide later depending on sales and public reactions.

Nearly all artists explain that they need the album “size” to explain their mood and show their artistic behaviour and feeling of the moment. For any artist, an album is why they want to sign with a record company.

Do you continue to buy albums ?

What do you think about the future of the album “size” ?

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