Skipping has always been a thing though, be it people jumping up to move the needle to the next band, cassette players that had auto search functions to find a blank spot to start back at, to it becoming easy with CDs. The record companies have pushed forth the single mentality with Now That’s Music Compilations and the restructuring of charts to account for streams. more and more recording artists seem to be building their greatest hits.
It’s also important to remember that the album has its origins in singles being collected.
It’s cyclical and as much as people want to cry out that the album is dying, there a lot of people making concept albums or still using the album to a potential instead of filler around bangers.
