"albums Just Aren't As Important In The Digital Age" ~ Larry Rudolph

[FUDGE]

i told you guys like what way before she was gonna do an E.P 5 months ago i did!

Just keep sucking dem insiders Dick's to get us exclusives tbh

[M.E.]

He's kind of right though, and pointing out the one big seller of the year doesn't mean shit because album sales in general are declining and people are too quick to move onto something new. There's a reason why single song streams now count towards the Billboard charting, because many people will just play tracks at random rather just going on and purchasing a full album.

 

I've always seen Britney as more of an album artist rather than a singles one but things have changed. She is much better off releasing a few tracks that she will actually promote, rather than releasing an album that will probably flop after she promotes the first single and then gets bored by the time it's released. That way she can gain back some cred she lost during the BJ era, create a good amount of hype for an album, and not rush out a turd that we'll all be disappointed in. I want her to take as much time as she needs to make a masterpiece, but in the meantime I still need a fix of new Britney music so bring on the singles.

[ahulyk]

It's true. People don't buy albums anymore!! Once in a blue moon you have an artist sell a lot but it's very rare now a days. He's right.

[Guest Lᴜᴠ3�ɪ♥Hᴀᴛᴇ�ɪ]

Okey, I don't get why what he said is so stupid. It's true, Beyonce is one of the most popular artists right now along with Ariana and a few others yet they didn't come close to Britney's OIDIA sales. Ofc album sales are important in terms of getting more $$$ but it's not what makes the artist successful nowadays It's just hype, catchy tunes oh and singing live 

He's still bad at his job tho 

[ooh la la]

albums are no longer important in the digital era what has technology got to do with music. it all about the money money money, i am sick of the music industry wreaking the musical potential of the world due to money. how many boybands are there one basically one direction why is there just no one else in the world wanting to create music as a boyband besides those five boys.

[Ignacio]

I don't know what they think is important then because they're not promoting it right. Like they're not promoting the albums, they're not promoting the singles...   Larry wtf are you doing? 

 

I will need Universe to take over her management. We can be her stylists and managers. 

[toxicguy]

That stupid ok fuck needs to close his deluded mouth.

After Sam,Marco Marco and Glenn he is the person who I hate the most

where is kfed ?

[confidentnotcocky]

Oh please, they're all money hungry pricks. BJ and FF would have slayed if they weren't generic as fuck, they know exactly what people and the fans want but they choose to put out the generic crap. Beyonce's team knew she was gonna flop because EVERYONE hated Bow down and Back to black, and the superbowl lipping stuff place 4 was a flop before hand so they tricked the whole world into buying it by the surprise release and pretending that mess of an album had depth to it with that visual album bullshit to make it look artistic. Gag had it on point in her early career till she went overboard, Taylor Thrift really has it on point. What sells albums is 'authenticity and artist integrity'. They know it. The rise if the internet generation is the reason, people can watch things pat and present and get influenced, the music snobs had their voice and ripped everyone apart for not writing their music, or over hyping people that do, real music, people watch performances whenever they want and snobs will always drag they pop stars. Gag came and said looked like the old flamboyant credible 80s pop stars, made a point of singing live and having writing credits and everyone loved her from all genres, suddenly all popstars wrote and 'sang live'. Brit came backin 08 and shot herself it in the foot by lipping the whole circus tour , not even play back . The Gag style star got tired and Adele came, people needed a new Amy Winehouse and she wasn't generic either and she's fat so people like that she was 'real'. and Traylor got that tumblr generation on lock. Eminem has comeback and bared his soul to the world. Ed Sheeran an ugly guy that does any pop music, but because he's ugly they pop a guitar in his hand and it's 'real' to the masses. They slay because it's exceptional marketing, playing on the internet music snobbery. LARRY IS AN OUT OF TOUCH GREEDY BITCH WHO ON CARES ABOUT CHEAP FAST FOOD SUCCESS. Look at Miley, the slayage of the first 2 singles, he was validated by the streaming stuff but that was it, Bangerz didn't do that brilliantly, FF did good but could have done better, and BJ . Alien was right there . 

 

He doesn't know what to do in this era, that's it but he thinks he does. He's ruining her now

[James]

Oh please, they're all money hungry pricks. BJ and FF would have slayed if they weren't generic as fuck, they know exactly what people and the fans want but they choose to put out the generic crap. Beyonce's team knew she was gonna flop because EVERYONE hated Bow down and Back to black, and the superbowl lipping stuff place 4 was a flop before hand so they tricked the whole world into buying it by the surprise release and pretending that mess of an album had depth to it with that visual album bullshit to make it look artistic. Gag had it on point in her early career till she went overboard, Taylor Thrift really has it on point. What sells albums is 'authenticity and artist integrity'. They know it. The rise if the internet generation is the reason, people can watch things pat and present and get influenced, the music snobs had their voice and ripped everyone apart for not writing their music, or over hyping people that do, real music, people watch performances whenever they want and snobs will always drag they pop stars. Gag came and said looked like the old flamboyant credible 80s pop stars, made a point of singing live and having writing credits and everyone loved her from all genres, suddenly all popstars wrote and 'sang live'. Brit came backin 08 and shot herself it in the foot by lipping the whole circus tour , not even play back . The Gag style star got tired and Adele came, people needed a new Amy Winehouse and she wasn't generic either and she's fat so people like that she was 'real'. and Traylor got that tumblr generation on lock. Eminem has comeback and bared his soul to the world. Ed Sheeran an ugly guy that does any pop music, but because he's ugly they pop a guitar in his hand and it's 'real' to the masses. They slay because it's exceptional marketing, playing on the internet music snobbery. LARRY IS AN OUT OF TOUCH GREEDY BITCH WHO ON CARES ABOUT CHEAP FAST FOOD SUCCESS. Look at Miley, the slayage of the first 2 singles, he was validated by the streaming stuff but that was it, Bangerz didn't do that brilliantly, FF did good but could have done better, and BJ . Alien was right there . 

 

He doesn't know what to do in this era, that's it but he thinks he does. He's ruining her now

 

The glitch was right there, you mean?

 

 

Otherwise interesting point of view tbh.

[daniel10456]

Oh god this is actually really worrying me... Honestly how could he say something that stupid. Britney's discography doesn't need a shitty half assed album.. Singles are obviously important, but they need to be paired with a good album or else what's the point?

[CIRCUS]

i miss you

 

and tweeting telling her "followers" to buy won't help either tbh

I miss you too, we should talk more often tbh 

[WillR]

Larry Rudolph is an incompetent idiot and Britney needs to fire his ass. These big surprise albums people started doing since Beyonce's visual album are having amazing success. If Britney did something like that, everyone would freak out and it would be a great success.

[Azrabrit]

Oh please, they're all money hungry pricks. BJ and FF would have slayed if they weren't generic as fuck, they know exactly what people and the fans want but they choose to put out the generic crap. Beyonce's team knew she was gonna flop because EVERYONE hated Bow down and Back to black, and the superbowl lipping stuff place 4 was a flop before hand so they tricked the whole world into buying it by the surprise release and pretending that mess of an album had depth to it with that visual album bullshit to make it look artistic. Gag had it on point in her early career till she went overboard, Taylor Thrift really has it on point. What sells albums is 'authenticity and artist integrity'. They know it. The rise if the internet generation is the reason, people can watch things pat and present and get influenced, the music snobs had their voice and ripped everyone apart for not writing their music, or over hyping people that do, real music, people watch performances whenever they want and snobs will always drag they pop stars. Gag came and said looked like the old flamboyant credible 80s pop stars, made a point of singing live and having writing credits and everyone loved her from all genres, suddenly all popstars wrote and 'sang live'. Brit came backin 08 and shot herself it in the foot by lipping the whole circus tour , not even play back . The Gag style star got tired and Adele came, people needed a new Amy Winehouse and she wasn't generic either and she's fat so people like that she was 'real'. and Traylor got that tumblr generation on lock. Eminem has comeback and bared his soul to the world. Ed Sheeran an ugly guy that does any pop music, but because he's ugly they pop a guitar in his hand and it's 'real' to the masses. They slay because it's exceptional marketing, playing on the internet music snobbery. LARRY IS AN OUT OF TOUCH GREEDY BITCH WHO ON CARES ABOUT CHEAP FAST FOOD SUCCESS. Look at Miley, the slayage of the first 2 singles, he was validated by the streaming stuff but that was it, Bangerz didn't do that brilliantly, FF did good but could have done better, and BJ . Alien was right there .

He doesn't know what to do in this era, that's it but he thinks he does. He's ruining her now

girl you are kinda pressed with parts about other artists

But ia about larry

[Azrabrit]

Okey, I don't get why what he said is so stupid. It's true, Beyonce is one of the most popular artists right now along with Ariana and a few others yet they didn't come close to Britney's OIDIA sales. Ofc album sales are important in terms of getting more $$$ but it's not what makes the artist successful nowadays It's just hype, catchy tunes oh and singing live

He's still bad at his job tho

but no one said that albums had to sell like oidia.

Point is that karry glhave said Albums don't sell at all when that isn't true,bcz if music is good and marketing is great music will sell we had lot of examples.

[Dance]

He needs to be fired, asap, he failed to do his job as a manager and he failed it completely, hes just not competitive anymore, the newcomers destroy him and he is stubborn so he fails to evolve, i dont see why they are keeping him as her manager , he stopped being competitive enough for this spot long time ago  

[Guest Lᴜᴠ3�ɪ♥Hᴀᴛᴇ�ɪ]

but no one said that albums had to sell like oidia.

Point is that karry glhave said Albums don't sell at all when that isn't true,bcz if music is good and marketing is great music will sell we had lot of examples.

Well I didn't read that quote, all I read was what was posted here :ohokay:

So yea he's wrong about them not selling at all, but I don't see the problem in saying they're not important 

[M.E.]

Oh god this is actually really worrying me... Honestly how could he say something that stupid. Britney's discography doesn't need a shitty half assed album.. Singles are obviously important, but they need to be paired with a good album or else what's the point?

 

Um... so why are you worried? Instead of rushing out a shitty half assed album, she's taking the time to work on something she's really proud of and excited about releasing.

[ahulyk]

He's true. No one sells alotnof albums anymore. Every once and a while you'll have 1 person sell a lot but no one else does. He's right.

[heather]

Where is the lie though? People download/stream singles/songs they like now. There's no need to buy full albums unless you're a fan. Britney is the only artist I buy albums of, everything else I stream the songs I like

[ahulyk]

Where is the lie though? People download/stream singles/songs they like now. There's no need to buy full albums unless you're a fan. Britney is the only artist I buy albums of, everything else I stream the songs I like

[tarotx]

In the Digital age albums aren't as important. I don't get how you all can't see the truth in that point. You all want to call Larry names about not understanding the market but it Seems he does. More so than you all at least. Especially for his artist.

Most albums that sell are from guys or from artist that promote out the wazoo. And even then it's rare to have large numbers up front. It's the artist that promo and put themselves in the public at a consistent and constant rate that slowly bring the albums sells in. Rarely are albums events now where super fans create hype and make albums a must for everybody including casual fans and the GP. All that hype and energy was wroth it because it's what drove album and ticket sells. That is what paid for albums. Hype today just pushes brand recognition and not numbers.

Britney is not going to be an artist that promos consistently and constantly again. Especially while her children are young. That lifestyle was hard on her before she was watching her kids grow up in a blink of an eye, let alone now. In InStyle Britney said that she's a parent that over worries and sometimes it gets so bad that she can't leave the house to go to work. And this Billboard interview she talks about how there are always new stuff from school to sports so clearly she wants to be a parent who is hands on with her kids. So yeah Britney is not going to be a promo queen to push albums.

Britney is going to take the time to find songs she wants to record and not just record to make an album...

She was doing that for BJ but the business got in the way. Producers don't want to waste potential good songs on an album that is going to not sell huge numbers. Nor work with an artist who they aren't really working with. Britney's anxiety and/or her need to have a mediator helping her comunucate her likes and dislikes is forever going to be an issue. There is a reason that FF and BJ are filled with songs from people who were hands on EPing/vocal producing the album and/or from people who were getting a song released as a single (or were led to believe would). Heck Black out was actually that way as well TBH. But there was a lot time between ITZ and BO like is being guessed will be with BJ and 9.

...So songs were Pulled or scrapped from BJ because of how the business works these days. No one has the time, energy or money to waste.

Albums were big deals back in the day So producers fought to even get an album track. Now it's about singles since that is how producers and song writers make money and get thier names out there.

Instead of worried about the business side, to ensure enough material for a quality album, they will record the songs Britney wants too and release them as singles. So no fighting over a song. It will be released as a single or not released at all. No time or energy to fight for great filler songs. Nor, when songs are pulled, have to worry about rush doing more filler songs to complete an album. Which left songs rushed. Not just the filler songs but wanted songs that could be perfected at the time fillers are forced to be recorded.

[tarotx]

Wow that turned out a book. And I actually could say more on the subject....

[vicima]

In the Digital age albums aren't as important. I don't get how you all can't see the truth in that point. You all want to call Larry names about not understanding the market but it Seems he does. More so than you all at least. Especially for his artist.

Most albums that sell are from guys or from artist that promote out the wazoo. And even then it's rare to have large numbers up front. It's the artist that promo and put themselves in the public at a consistent and constant rate that slowly bring the albums sells in. Rarely are albums events now where super fans create hype and make albums a must for everybody including casual fans and the GP. All that hype and energy was wroth it because it's what drove album and ticket sells. That is what paid for albums. Hype today just pushes brand recognition and not numbers.

Britney is not going to be an artist that promos consistently and constantly again. Especially while her children are young. That lifestyle was hard on her before she was watching her kids grow up in a blink of an eye, let alone now. In InStyle Britney said that she's a parent that over worries and sometimes it gets so bad that she can't leave the house to go to work. And this Billboard interview she talks about how there are always new stuff from school to sports so clearly she wants to be a parent who is hands on with her kids. So yeah Britney is not going to be a promo queen to push albums.

Britney is going to take the time to find songs she wants to record and not just record to make an album...

She was doing that for BJ but the business got in the way. Producers don't want to waste potential good songs on an album that is going to not sell huge numbers. Nor work with an artist who they aren't really working with. Britney's anxiety and/or her need to have a mediator helping her comunucate her likes and dislikes is forever going to be an issue. There is a reason that FF and BJ are filled with songs from people who were hands on EPing/vocal producing the album and/or from people who were getting a song released as a single (or were led to believe would). Heck Black out was actually that way as well TBH. But there was a lot time between ITZ and BO like is being guessed will be with BJ and 9.

...So songs were Pulled or scrapped from BJ because of how the business works these days. No one has the time, energy or money to waste.

Albums were big deals back in the day So producers fought to even get an album track. Now it's about singles since that is how producers and song writers make money and get thier names out there.

Instead of worried about the business side, to ensure enough material for a quality album, they will record the songs Britney wants too and release them as singles. So no fighting over a song. It will be released as a single or not released at all. No time or energy to fight for great filler songs. Nor, when songs are pulled, have to worry about rush doing more filler songs to complete an album. Which left songs rushed. Not just the filler songs but wanted songs that could be perfected at the time fillers are forced to be recorded.

I totally agree with you   

[Bawbbyy]

That's ONE album.

He's right in general. And Britney has been a singles artist for years now.

[gimmework]

Everyone needs to CALM DOWN!! We are getting new music and that's amazing! And I'm really tired of ppl coming for Larry all the time. He has been her manager through everything and is probably responsible for a lot of our favorite Britney moments, songs, etc.. SO CALM DOWN PPL!

 

All he said is that in the digital age Singles are more important than Albums.. which happens to be true in the market right now and that's not HIS fault! Using Taylor Swifts 1989 is the exception not the rule. If you look at business articles published by Billboard.com you can see that in the past 10 yrs single sales have gone up dramatically and whole album sales have gone down.     I'm excited for the new singles and can't wait to see her in Vegas again!