Calvin Harris has allegedly quit making albums claiming that singles are the future.
Speaking to The Sun, a ‘music source’ explained the logic behind the Scottish producer’s heartbreaking decision: “Calvin has always been a forward-thinker and believes just releasing singles is the way forward. Albums don’t sell how they used to and artists are now seeing streaming as the future. Albums are time-consuming and limit artists to cycles rather than having a persistent presence in the charts. Calvin is one of the most-streamed artists in the world so it would make sense to exploit that success.”
Although one can beg to differ, but I think Calvin has a point when he said that streaming is the future of music, but saying “albums are time-consuming and limit artists to cycles rather than having a persistent presence in the charts” is kind of a capitalist way a musician can ever think of.
Calvin is completely ignoring the very concept of what an album is. He is only thinking about chart successes as basis for putting out good music. Success is, of course, a thing this Scottish producer knows a bit about. He wrote bangers with Rihanna, dated Taylor Swift and won a Grammy, and transformed himself from fuzzy goofball to hench model in just a few years. Now he lives in LA and performs regularly in Las Vegas. Life, it seems, has been kind to Calvin Harris.
Calvin might not be releasing any albums anymore, but he will still be releasing singles, which inevitably be released in a compilation album in the future.
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