How do album singles work and why are those the only ones that get played on the radio?
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Singles are the song chosen to be given to the radio stations to play. The band and producer will get together and find the “single” of their record and that will be the *only* song they promote. Its mean to be the song that hooks the audience.
When albums were a bigger deal–it was all about the single. You got people hooked on the single, but they had to buy the whole album to get it. So you sold the whole album based off that one song. In fact hell, you could only have that single song on an entire album be any good (and this was seriously a method of doing it for pop)
Oh pop music– so, yes, on say an album of 12 songs, really they only care about 1 or 2. The others are basically throw away. They spend all their effort on just one or two songs that will end up being the singles. In no way am I kidding, if you’re thinking Britney cared about the 8th song on her album, nope, they were just filler–its the single that got you to buy the album and the single they build their marketing around, make a music video for, and so on. It becomes their personality and their calling card.
In a more modern, streaming world– its again all about the single… hell you don’t even need albums anymore.
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