Why do professional singers still need a click-track while performing? Doesn’t performing enough times makes you develop rhythm?

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Why do professional singers still need a click-track while performing? Doesn’t performing enough times makes you develop rhythm?

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One of the common reasons is that “comping” is the new standard to music production. Comping basically means most vocal tracks you hear today are not going to be recorded in a single take, or even two, but they take many takes and splice the best parts of each one to get the final track.

So the click track may not even be for the singer necessarily, it could be for the editor who is trying to line the tracks up after the fact.