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Originally Posted by Mennonite
I've been looking at the release dates of some albums that i like and it's amazing how prolific some of these bands were. CCR released 6 albums in a two and a half year span for God's sake. Deep Purple released 10 albums between 68 and 75 - with three different lead singers. The Beatles had a million hits on a dozen albums all within just a few years, too.
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That's pretty crazy, but a new album every year-18 months definitely wasn't unusual in the 60s/70s. Plus, a lot of these bands were basically touring non-stop. By the 90s, you were lucky to get something new every three years from the big names.
Maybe Dane can chime in, but I read a while back that the spread of FM radio and more pop/rock stations, plus the video explosion of the 80s made it so record companies could milk sales from an album a lot longer, so they didn't necessarily want a new product every year when they were still able to get decent sales from the last one.