SONGS ARE GETTING SHORTER...

Genuinely asking,

What does streaming have to do with it

Expect under 2 minutes songs by 2025

Nah, it's nothing new. K-pop is just going the grindcore route. For the moment they have nothing on Napalm Death and its world record of the shortest song (1.316 seconds long).

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Genuinely asking,

What does streaming have to do with it

Shorter song -> more streams per unit of time -> more money (and bigger numbers)

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And they expect people to like it enough to stream like a mad man....

Companies should start splitting a song in two. You get the same content but twice the streams.

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Shorter song -> more streams per unit of time -> more money (and bigger numbers)

If I've just released a single, though, this only benefits me if people are inclined to repeat the song over and over, right? Which is unusual behaviour.

On an album, I can see the financial incentive of, like, making an album full of very short songs, for sure tho.

But then I'd probably do that anyway, I love those kinds of albums.

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Companies should start splitting a song in two. You get the same content but double streams.

Time for streaming sites to count by listening time not by number of streams.

True. It's annoying tbh... Really annoying and lazy work to have a "better" result.

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artists where I live have been doing it for a while now...2 min songs and most part of them just repeats the same thing

this is nothing new, there is this duo group their name was Tasty 😋 their songs were less than 3 mins

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won't be surprised if in future full song will be as long as some intro are nowadays lol

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In 2 years each song is gonna be split into 3 parts: intro, main, outro each lasting 1 minute

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won't be surprised if in future full song will be as long as some intro are nowadays lol

I hope things don't "fall off" where everybody is doing that. In the US, even some Motown era songs are short but they feel complete.

Imagine if this song was just one second longer.

Don't want to live in that world.

Bring on the <2:00 k-pop!!!!!!

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Expect under 2 minutes songs by 2025

Nah...by that point it'd just play the first few seconds of instrumental and then be like.

"There. Done. Now, BUY. "

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Companies should start splitting a song in two. You get the same content but double streams.

Future k-pop mini albums be looking like

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Future k-pop mini albums be looking like

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Would be looking like some 1-ply toilet tissue!!

is it across the board or just teddy and somi lol

Am I the only one who don't mind short tracks ? I am not against longer ones too as long as I enjoy it.

The minute the song starts getting good, BOOM. It’s over!

One of my biggest complaints for sure. Songs literally cant breathe anymore.

I understand why Kpop keeps the songs short, it's hard af to put out interesting choreo for 3 minutes, let alone 4 or 5, shit could get boring real fast for the audience. Also much easier to dance for 3 minute intervals rather than 4 or 5 minutes, like in a concert.

But in general songs have gotten so short that they seem just like commercials and ads for the group. There was a time when pop music wasnt like this, it was about real musicality. I have so many favorite songs in the 5-10 minute range, here is just one example of one of the best power ballads of all time.

I guess the three minute pop song is gone then.

yall are acting like boomers lmao. short songs have been a thing since forever. listening to old songs, specially from 60s, i noticed the songs are like super short less than three minutes long some even less than two but i suppose at that time it was because of radio, now is about streaming.

the problem is not about a songs length but its quality, many current songs just feel unfinished

Radios ideal time slot for songs is 2:30 min.

not only in KPOP, generally in the West too. Have you listened to the new JB and kid laroi song? it's shorter than Somi's lol

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not only in KPOP, generally in the West too. Have you listened to the new JB and kid laroi song? it's shorter than Somi's lol

Coincidentely, its video is same length as a Motown-era classic I was introduced to. The difference is one song has more flavor than the other:

Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her (2:37)

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One of my biggest complaints for sure. Songs literally cant breathe anymore.

I understand why Kpop keeps the songs short, it's hard af to put out interesting choreo for 3 minutes, let alone 4 or 5, shit could get boring real fast for the audience. Also much easier to dance for 3 minute intervals rather than 4 or 5 minutes, like in a concert.

But in general songs have gotten so short that they seem just like commercials and ads for the group. There was a time when pop music wasnt like this, it was about real musicality. I have so many favorite songs in the 5-10 minute range, here is just one example of one of the best power ballads of all time.

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There were also older times (in the 50's and beginning of the 60's), when most songs were only 2 minutes long too xD (and they sounded good & complete).

Edit: Oh, I didn’t see that others were already mentioning that.

Quality > Quanity