Over the past couple of years I have wondered why more artists are producing singles instead of albums. After wondering this for quite some time I realized that artists who produced more singles and less albums would hit the top charts faster and more often.
Sadly, most popular artists can produce a bad song, and it can still be popular, just because it is by a popular artist. When an they produce a song on an album, listeners will pick a few favorite songs on the album, that are usually the best ones. Most people will enjoy the same songs and those songs become more popular. Thats how they get on the top charts. The other songs in the album don't make as much money.
If the artist had instead produced each song on the album as a single, each single about three months apart, each song would be as popular as the best songs would in an album, just because that was the new music out by that artist.
It is like buying anything. For an example, lets use shirts. If there are ten shirts and you want to buy some shirts, how many would you pick out? Maybe five? Most likely you would pick your favorites. If the store put one shirt out on display every week, you might be more likely to buy more shirts, even if you don't like them as much.
It's all about where the spotlight is, whatever a popular artist draws attention to, many people will follow, but they cant follow multiple things at once, so you release things in pieces to make more money and popularity.
Fashion is inspired by art. Patterns that you can find in art (like music) will usually apply to fashion and other forms of art. Trend predicting? It's all about patterns. When you can figure out what the patterns are you can predict what will come in the future. These types of patterns work with so much. Patterns like this can even be applied to the stock market. All by wondering, what will come next?
Fashionably,
The Fashioneur
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