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Originally Posted by Paparazzi
Actually, overall pop albums are getting longer on albums. Back in the day, 13 full tracks was generally considered by critics to be "Far too long", while now Britney Spears is releasing 19-track LPs and Kelly Clarkson is going for 17 tracks. It's just that Ayu's albums were long in a time when short was the standard, and now she's releasing short albums when long is the standard.
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The difference? Ayu writes her music. Those artists don't, or only contribute to a few tracks. Its pretty easy for a singer who doesn't write or compose their music to pick tracks and record them in the studio. These artists would get thousands of bidding songwriters fowarding their tracks to get them on a famous singers album. Plus Ayu releases albums a lot faster than American pop artists
There's no way long albums are the norm these days. In the 90s, albums were much longer.