Diggin' deep in the record bin...
I would say so yes. A lot depends on their fan base I suppose. The majority of people now will stream music and probably never pay for physical copies or downloads. And they will just stream the songs they like or have heard, and won't even bother checking out other songs on the albums. So for many artists, so long as you have 3 or 4 bangers on the record that are going to be streamed tens/hundreds of millions of times, it doesn't matter what makes up the rest of the albums. Sequencing, concept and even song quality of the fillers are no longer factors for many artists. Maybe I'm being a bit unfair to the artists there and it's actually the labels that are instigating this, but I do think it's a real issue.Are there some artists who are not like that? Surely they all would prefer that way of listening