The funny thing is that for all the doom and gloom about the fate of the album, what 2016 has shown us is that, in a certain way, albums are thriving more than ever.
Despite What Everyone is Saying, Albums Are Alive as Ever
Matthew Reyes
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Let’s not be fooled either by this trend for artists to call projects mixtapes instead of albums to sort of deflate the expectations on them. These are, for the most part, albums, but for either marketing, promotional, or legal reasons, artists classify them as mixtapes.