I noticed that the track “Canon (Primo)” by Justice only has 5,815 plays on Spotify, even though every other track on the album has millions of plays. How is this possible? I know it’s just an interlude track that you wouldn’t listen to unless you’re listening to the full album, but still, this play count seems extremely low. What’s going on here? (I’m hoping my attached screenshot shows up here)
Youngsters don’t listen to albums anymore.
Did we ever? Except maybe on the first play through?
Once tapes started being more popular than ever, it became easy to record your own mixtape. So that predates me by a generation or so
I did for a bit with tapes and CDs, then didn’t for a good long while, but about a decade ago I got into vinyl, which I think is super cool because it’s somewhat difficult to drop the needle right where you want to… and at the same time, listening to one side of a record just feels like a much more atomic experience, and some artists actually build the album so that it adds another layer to the art.
I mean, I’m young and I have a full on digital collection of albums on my drive.
I don’t like mixtapes for regular listens because I might like the songs in the album if I like one song already.
I do like mixes if I just want to listen to a specific kind of music.
Even on a streaming service if I hear a band i like that I’ve not heard before from a “radio” playlist I’ll go to that band and listen to whatever thier most popular album is.