Submitted by gardenhead_ t3_11dbcfg in Music
so to anyone part of an older generation, this might sound silly because it used to be a commonplace thing in the music industry, but looking online, i see that in the case with a lot of albums, one or two singles will be released, then the album, but then sometimes more singles off the album will be released; why is that? surely it makes more sense to release all the singles before the album to generate buzz than to release singles after? why would someone buy a single when they already have the single on an album they bought just a couple months before? for example, oasis released “be here now” in august 1997, but the single “all around the world” was released in january of 1998 which just doesn’t really make sense to me. if anyone could answer this i’d greatly appreciate it.
dogm34t_ t1_ja7l1yp wrote
Sometimes when they released a single afterwards, it made that have a live track, various remixes, and b sides, etc.