How y’all feel about new industry trend — the deluxe album?

[Rell Lauren]

It's a very cheap tactic to boost streams and the music often isn't better or worth adding it on.

 

[ISO]

lol deluxe albums being new ...deluxe albums been goin almost for a minute now...

itunes always had deluxe versions ...or retail had it..it flip flopped

Breh did you read the OP?

 

[tremonthustler1]

I couldn't finish chris brown's album due to the excessive number of songs on it.

He did that deluxe shyt too

 

[ISO]

Just finished Herb deluxe fire all b-sides

I like this trend the next evolution of the album

 

[FlyRy]

Less is more

 

[010101]

albums are pointless now

just let the work flow

people consume at their own pace & hits grow organically

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[WHolla09]

Its done to boost the numbers. Any streams for the "deluxe" album counts for the original album. In the pre-streaming era, it would have just been a mixtape or they would have released another album. This trend doesn't bother me, as I'm not purchasing anything new. Side note, ever since the streaming era started, billboard stats mean absolutely nothing to me anymore. Going gold in a week used to be a dope stat because that meant 500K people "bought" the album. People having 5 songs in the Billboard 200, the first week the album came out, doesn't impress me at all

 

[kBNeRd281]

Dj's should jump on this to make quality remix on the same ole songs

and of course, leave the new songs alone.

kinda like they do in Houston with the screwed and chopped versions

I don't see how it could hurt to slow and chop some of the older songs to sell them cuz

I think there is still a market for those kind of songs

like not slow all the old songs but maybe a few

then maybe have a DJ blend one song into another even at regular speed

give it a different beat

switch up the features

1 version may have 3 verses from 1 rapper the next version can have only 1 verse with 2 to 3 features
just something to mix it up

to make u get that deluxe version

 

[kBNeRd281]

add a sound

add a skit

add a drop from a famous rapper

lil things will make fans buy that product

 

[ISO]

Lil Wayne threw out an 8 track deluxe too we may see older artists do it too

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Its done to boost the numbers. Any streams for the "deluxe" album counts for the original album. In the pre-streaming era, it would have just been a mixtape or they would have released another album. This trend doesn't bother me, as I'm not purchasing anything new. Side note, ever since the streaming era started, billboard stats mean absolutely nothing to me anymore. Going gold in a week used to be a dope stat because that meant 500K people "bought" the album. People having 5 songs in the Billboard 200, the first week the album came out, doesn't impress me at all

This. They’ve basically been handing out participation trophies with the way the current era is set up

 

[Ziggiy]

Deluxe albums don’t feel like a “new” thing to me. Whats going on now is nothing more than an exaggeration of what started in and around 2010, when you’d get a couple extra bonus tracks depending on if you brought an album off itunes or Google Music or Amazon Music you’d get 1-2 bonus tracks.

Then around 2012 it became bigger. I remember Nas’s Life Is Good and Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid Mad City had both standard and “Deluxe”’editions. PLUS another extra song if you brought the albums on Itunes.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Nobody I'm a fan of does this so I really have no feelings towards it

Word.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I prefer to them to do the deluxe instead of dropping 50 songs at once. I couldn't finish chris brown's album due to the excessive number of songs on it.

And good for them. They get more money and their fans get more music

Chris dropped a deluxe too

 

[Sad Bunny]

Chris dropped a deluxe too

I actually remember and I did like the first song off of that album was it like the Ariana Grande album cover with the Christmas thing or whatever