Album Release

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     When following your favorite artists/ bands, you go through a journey with them. You follow their up's and down's and something that can easily go up or down is the album release. Artists can spend up to months or up to multiple years writing their album. A lot of stress and hard work goes into making an album, so when it comes to the release date, that can be the most stressful time for artists.

     Over the years of following different artists and bands, I have noticed patterns and differences when it comes to making an album. The most accomplished or the most awarded artists are the one's who take multiple years to make an album. Take Taylor Swift for an example, it took her 2 years and five days to make her current album. Taylor Swift sold over one million copies in just the United States alone in the first week! The 1989 album has won multiple awards ranging from Album of the Year at the AMA's to being nominated for record of the year at the Grammys.

     After looking at Taylor Swift's success, you look at artist's who write albums in maybe a year or less. Those are the type of artists who are just pop up artists, they are in their peak stage and the artist wants to put out as much music as possible in the amount of time they have. The artist's that release music every year are the one's who may not be in the music industry for very long and they can not take two years to write an album like Taylor Swift because they never when their popularity might die down. I'm saying it about everyone, but for some artist's like The Wanted, they only have a short amount of time.

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     Another trend that I see is the leaking of albums. When an album is leaked, basically all of the hard work and excitement that goes into the release date goes down the toilet. Most artists put a smile on their face and say it's not a big deal, but actually on the inside the artist feels disappointed. You put a release date out there so that way you can let people know the album is coming soon, get excited and be patient. So if you are one of those people who try to leak an album, or tell people to leak an album, you need to stop because the artist who made that album wants everyone to hear it at the same time when it is suppose to be released.

     Album release day is the day that the artist finds out if their hard work is a success or fail. Usually if the artist does a lot of promo or get's people to spread the word about the album before it's released, it is usually a success. The release of an album can take however long the artist want's to take to write it. Generally the longer it takes to write an album the more successful it would be, it depends on the fan base. The album release day is the most important day of an artists career no matter what, all of the work you have put into making that album is finally shared to the world.