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Old 03-12-2021, 03:13 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by cosmo20002 View Post
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.
I follow a lot of small bands today and they're going back to that model. Basically in order to tour non-stop, they have to have a steady flow of new product so they're releasing an album or EP every 18 months or so.

Of course, COVID destroyed several of them.
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