Om Monday as part of our week long exploration into the future of the album format, we asked Hypebot readers if they believed that the album was dead. Thus far the results are pretty definitive. As of Wednesday morning:
74.8%– "The Album Format Is Worth Saving" 25.2%– "With Rare Exceptions The Album Is Dead"
Are Hypebot reader's right or is this just wishful thinking? Cast you vote.
Of course we’re right! Hypebot readers are music lovers, and we all know that the format is worth saving; I can’t imagine why someone would say it isn’t (the opposing question doesn’t really address that)But, ‘worth saving’ and ‘will be saved’ are two different things…that’s probably up to the music listening masses, who will just follow the fashionable trend of the day whether that is good for music as an artform or not.
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Of course we’re right! Hypebot readers are music lovers, and we all know that the format is worth saving; I can’t imagine why someone would say it isn’t (the opposing question doesn’t really address that)But, ‘worth saving’ and ‘will be saved’ are two different things…that’s probably up to the music listening masses, who will just follow the fashionable trend of the day whether that is good for music as an artform or not.