I find it doubtful that streaming is the reason why music is getting shorter. I find it more likely to be the sample set that is the problem. Top 100 albums are usually filled with songs built...
I find it doubtful that streaming is the reason why music is getting shorter. I find it more likely to be the sample set that is the problem. Top 100 albums are usually filled with songs built around "hooks". The longer they go, the less powerful the song is.
Is streaming really the reason? The radio trend for decades have been shorter and shorter songs, or radio edits of songs to make them short enough. Attention spans and duration of content on every...
Is streaming really the reason?
The radio trend for decades have been shorter and shorter songs, or radio edits of songs to make them short enough.
Attention spans and duration of content on every platform have gone down (even with shorter and shorter cuts in longer and longer movies that average more and more action per minute).
Is that also just happening to songs like all other things?
Even ads are becoming shorter and shorter because what you get across during the first 5-10 seconds is pretty much as good as something longer unless the production value/creativity is way up high.
I think this trend is way more complicated than the small proportion of music profits that come from streaming. Musicians make more and more of their money from touring and less and less from song sales.
This is something I've kinda been missing; back in the day you can just put on an album and essentially use it to mark time. One album listen = 30 to 40 min which is a nice half hour of work done...
This is something I've kinda been missing; back in the day you can just put on an album and essentially use it to mark time. One album listen = 30 to 40 min which is a nice half hour of work done before I waste a few minutes trying to find something else to listen to. With more recent artists, I feel like I absolutely have to put together my own playlist or use Spotify's. The curation and discovery layers felt like they worked better back in the day with Last.fm to be honest.
I find it doubtful that streaming is the reason why music is getting shorter. I find it more likely to be the sample set that is the problem. Top 100 albums are usually filled with songs built around "hooks". The longer they go, the less powerful the song is.
I don't think the author of this article has ever listened to Anal Cunt. Now that is a band with short songs.
I wasn't recommending them.
Is streaming really the reason?
The radio trend for decades have been shorter and shorter songs, or radio edits of songs to make them short enough.
Attention spans and duration of content on every platform have gone down (even with shorter and shorter cuts in longer and longer movies that average more and more action per minute).
Is that also just happening to songs like all other things?
Even ads are becoming shorter and shorter because what you get across during the first 5-10 seconds is pretty much as good as something longer unless the production value/creativity is way up high.
I think this trend is way more complicated than the small proportion of music profits that come from streaming. Musicians make more and more of their money from touring and less and less from song sales.
This is something I've kinda been missing; back in the day you can just put on an album and essentially use it to mark time. One album listen = 30 to 40 min which is a nice half hour of work done before I waste a few minutes trying to find something else to listen to. With more recent artists, I feel like I absolutely have to put together my own playlist or use Spotify's. The curation and discovery layers felt like they worked better back in the day with Last.fm to be honest.
Really? I guess it depends on the music you listen to, but the albums I listen to are about that long, or longer.