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For a while it was looking as though albums might be dying. With the ability to pick and choose tracks, many people just don’t bother buying a full album in the digital age. But some acts staunchly stuck to the format. One notable example is Alter Bridge, who claimed a while back that no matter what changes in the music industry they would never switch to only releasing singles.
But nowadays the album format has been saved. It’s true that sales are admittedly still down, and there aren’t as many albums nowadays that are “must-listens” start-to-finish as there were in the past. But surprise releases like Beyoncé’s self-titled album and Drake’s If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late, as well as the early release of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly have made whole albums talking points again. In fact, Kanye West declared release dates dead, saying that his seventh album, So Help Me God, would be released “when it’s ready.”