LVP Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) On one hand - Taylor with 31 tracks, Beyonce with 27 tracks and Sza with 23-25 tracks On the other hand - Billie and Dua are coming with 10-11 tracks Personally I prefer nice 40 minutes albums with approximately 12 tracks. Melodrama by Lorde is still a perfect album where there are 11 tracks but the quality is on top. Edited April 19 by LVP 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoMarcoCMM Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 10 tracks album is more safe to deliver a cohesive work, unless you are Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter) or Miranda Lambert (The Weight of These Wings) lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfonso12 Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I prefer 10 by FAR. Quality > quantity. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayseri Mantisi Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 10-14 is the PERFECT length as I know from my fav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgos Groove Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 10 tracks if the project is cohesive and well-structured. I can appreciate the intent to put everything out with a 30+ track album, but it (almost) never results in a proper body of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVP Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 I also wanna say GOOD LUCK to @supaspaz with "this was 2024" next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnetzka Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 To me it depends on how often the artist releases. Like Mariah gave us Caution four years after Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse and only consisted of ten songs and has not released another album since. If she released more frequently these days then I wouldn't mind it as much but that does not appear to be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelato Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 10-13 is optimal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentleEarthquake Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 20+-track albums are bound to have several fillers unless you put a LOT of work into it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay07 Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 10 absolutely and that includes Cowboy Carter which is great but has already been pruned down to like 14-15 tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaloSanto Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) The ideal album length for me is 12 tracks with an average track length of 3:30ish Albums with less than 12 tracks or shorter than 40 minutes feel like a scam to me, baby that's an EP BUT, if you can deliver a long album that is also high quality, why wouldnt you? Edited April 19 by PaloSanto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstreak Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) 30, at the least you can make good album with the ones you save. If you've got 10 tracks and yet still some duds well… Edited April 19 by Redstreak 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator Azulito Posted April 19 ATRL Moderator Share Posted April 19 Anything over like 15 is just too much imo. I get that it’s nice hearing basically every song an artist created while recording an album but the quality definitely begins to decline. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qurl Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Beyoncé's album is not legitimately 27 tracks is the thing , it's closer to the 16 of Renaissance which in the streaming era where it's a numbers game is a fine number for a standard edition of an album … i love Bey but i can even admit Cowboy Carter feels a lil bloated even tho i love the listening experience of it .. but im not a fan of how many start-stop moments there are with the amount of 1 minute "songs" that probably should have just been married into other songs since she loves doing slash/songs , and i don't even think a lot of the "tracks" on CC are eligible for contributing to the streaming numbers for the album based on their length now releasing 31 FULL songs on a "double" album that's still billed as one project ??? to ME! that is the definition of big and greedy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supertiffany Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 why limit to 10 if you can have 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthteller Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 30 songs in 2-3 instalments dropping 6 months apart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danixoxo Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 as i loooove listening to albums as a whole i'd say 10 instead of 31. but ngl i'd love for my fav to release 31 tracks at once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariananext Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I like short albums, I've been trying to listen to TTPD for the whole day but it's too long, I'm still on track 17 and that's without reading lyrics. Long albums always end up having songs I skip and they feel a bit all over the place for me. 12-13 tracks is the sweet spot. Eternal Sunshine's length is perfect, I can listen to it front and back when I feel like doing it, without having to take a day off from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinyshimmery Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I prefer 12-16 track albums.... idgaf about cohesiveness either.... I need songs for every mood. Give me disjointed, messy, loud, soft, fast, slow all in one album pleaseeeeeeeeeeee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maroonx Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I prefer 10-14, coz you "get to know" the tracks more... While I appreciate all the new music, 30+ tracks is a lot to digest at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKKIMO92 Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 No more than 14 tracks for a standard album, and no more than 21 for a deluxe album. Seeing 30+tracks, I don't even want to listen to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_int Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I think 11-13 tracks is perfect for album and then add 5-10 for re-release but not sooner than 6 months after original album release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fa77ot Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 quality >>>> so 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisoner Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Doesn't matter to me, i only listen to the songs i like anyway, be it 10, 20, 30 or 50 tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) 10 great well produced and thought out songs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 30 unfinished half assed demos Edited April 19 by Dante 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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