Pop’s need for speed: ‘You should drop new stuff continually’

musicYet he thinks the format will final a long time. Striving to make something cohesive that’s 30 to 40 minutes lengthy is a “nice, useful constraint”.

The lead single, “Music”, topped the document charts in 25 countries worldwide and became Madonna’s 12th number-one hit on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It was followed with one other Hot 100 top-five hit “Don’t Tell Me” and “What It Feels Like for a Girl” which attained the highest-ten place in several countries worldwide.

, she announced that her subsequent report, White Hot Forever, will arrive as a shock launch throughout the subsequent year. “Madonna’s key to making ‘Music'”. CNN. November 10, 2000. Archived from the unique on June 18, 2013.

For many artists who launch independently, whether or not they’re rappers dropping mixtapes or punks with tape labels, quick-and-livid releases are nothing new. But even main-label pop stars are at it. Ariana Grande launched her album Thank U, Next just six months after her earlier LP, Sweetener; within two months, she had moved on again, releasing the non-album single Monopoly, later adopted by Boyfriend, and is now at No 1 with Don’t Call Me Angel, a collaboration with Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey. This month, earlier than listeners had barely had an opportunity to listen to all of Del Rey’s new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!

“ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums”. Australian Recording Industry Association. Philippakis is amongst a growing number of artists responding to this fast-moving dynamic by upping the … Read More