Ewww I really hate albums with too many songs. In case of 13 or 12 track albums there are often inevatible fillers/bad tracks. I wish albums nowaydays were shorter like 9 or 8 tacks long.
I think 11 - 12 tracks is the best album size. Much longer and it normally becomes a mess and incohesive.
Also, it's the record label's choice as to how many tracks there will be on the album. They might have written 30+ songs, but may have not recorded them all.
Look no further than Xtina's album and Born This Way. Too many songs makes a project seem muddled and lacking direction, and often bog the good songs down with the **** ones
I think a lot depends on the artist. If it's Taylor Swift or something, I want ****ing 30 songs, as many as possible. But if it's a singles artist (I won't name names, but you all know whom I'm referring to), they should stick to 8, because you know the rest of that **** is garbage for the most part. Even my fave Gaga should not go beyond 15, her last album was very bulky.
Look no further than Xtina's album and Born This Way. Too many songs makes a project seem muddled and lacking direction, and often bog the good songs down with the **** ones
Born This Way has 14 songs?
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Originally posted by GaGaFan
I feel like artists should all include at LEAST 14 songs on the albums they release.
I'm mad that there's 130+ songs from the IASF and 4 recording sessions that I haven't heard. I wanna hear the tracks Bey recorded with Bloodshy and Avant too.
Roadrunner Records are one particular label that only prefers 12 tracks on the standard edition of an album. See Korn's latest album, and the upcoming releases by Theory of a Deadman and Megadeth. All of those have special editions with extra bonus tracks, and Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) specifically stated that Roadrunner only wanted 12 tracks to be included.
There are some albums with more than 14 tracks that are among my all-time favorites, such as Transistor by 311. 21 tracks. Only one "interlude" which is an instrumental called "Color".
More than 16 tracks in a one album is messy. The listening experience of the album as a whole is just not the same, besides, unless you're a big fan of the artist, you'll end of disposing the fillers sometime later.
They should sell the album with 14 or less tracks, and then give the leftovers for free or something, because clearly if we are fans we just can't get enough, and it's way better than leaving them unreleased.
