I have thinking about this recently due to Victon Hanse upcoming solo album and honestly It felt that like a mixtape due to the features and knowing Hanse other solo like Hallelujah
And also don't say the different between them is that a mixtape is free , I mean how is music different from each other
Over the years the difference between a mixtape and an album has grown smarter and smaller tbh, but what I can tell you is that, in the hip-hop world, the difference is in the goals. Albums are made to generate units, produce hit singles and sell physicals. While these may also apply to mixtapes, their goals are more flexible. Mixtapes are made to attract new fans, to create hype and to collaborate with artists you want to without a commercial goal for it. Mixtapes in western hip-hop industry are also much longer cause, as I said, commercial success is not a goal so streamability doesn't matter much. It's basically just to vibe to put it in a simple way lol. Putting out music without any pressure.
Free mixtapes were just recently popularized by chance the rapper and such, cause you don't have to move units so Putting it out on streaming platforms is enough.
For my faves atleast all the things I mentioned above do apply, they have themselves said that they put out Mixtapes and not albums cause the pressure for commercial success and doing well on charts is much lesser.
Over the years the difference between a mixtape and an album has grown smarter and smaller tbh, but what I can tell you is that, in the hip-hop world, the difference is in the goals. Albums are made to generate units, produce hit singles and sell physicals. While these may also apply to mixtapes, their goals are more flexible. Mixtapes are made to attract new fans, to create hype and to collaborate with artists you want to without a commercial goal for it. Mixtapes in western hip-hop industry are also much longer cause, as I said, commercial success is not a goal so streamability doesn't matter much. It's basically just to vibe to put it in a simple way lol. Putting out music without any pressure.
Free mixtapes were just recently popularized by chance the rapper and such, cause you don't have to move units so Putting it out on streaming platforms is enough.
For my faves atleast all the things I mentioned above do apply, they have themselves said that they put out Mixtapes and not albums cause the pressure for commercial success and doing well on charts is much lesser.
Thank You for explaining this to me
But what about something like SPIDER by Hoshi (Mixtape) and Duality by I.M (solo album)
Over the years the difference between a mixtape and an album has grown smarter and smaller tbh, but what I can tell you is that, in the hip-hop world, the difference is in the goals. Albums are made to generate units, produce hit singles and sell physicals. While these may also apply to mixtapes, their goals are more flexible. Mixtapes are made to attract new fans, to create hype and to collaborate with artists you want to without a commercial goal for it. Mixtapes in western hip-hop industry are also much longer cause, as I said, commercial success is not a goal so streamability doesn't matter much. It's basically just to vibe to put it in a simple way lol. Putting out music without any pressure.
Free mixtapes were just recently popularized by chance the rapper and such, cause you don't have to move units so Putting it out on streaming platforms is enough.
For my faves atleast all the things I mentioned above do apply, they have themselves said that they put out Mixtapes and not albums cause the pressure for commercial success and doing well on charts is much lesser.
Just to add to this, at least with my favs when they put out mixtapes they don’t promote at all. They release the mixtape and thats all, no music shows, no live performances at all. You get the mixtape, the mv and they even put a free download link to download the whole mixtape in the description. They don’t only put it on soundcloud
Just to add to this, at least with my favs when they put out mixtapes they don’t promote at all. They release the mixtape and thats all, no music shows, no live performances at all. You get the mixtape, the mv and they even put a free download link to download the whole mixtape in the description. They don’t only put it on soundcloud
What about Hoshi tho
he got an M countdown stage and an BE ORIGINAL for Spider
(no hating tho , just asking )
What I'm getting from Wikipedia for Duality is
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So looks like they didn't release physicals to avoid censoring?? Idk how that makes sense but they had a reason to not release physicals ig
Like I said, the goals for an album may also apply for a mixtape, they are just more flexible. You could also promote a mixtape of you want to, and you can also sell physicals for mixtapes too, that's what rappers used to do before free mixtapes got popularized. Many used to record live performances and sell it as physical mixtapes too!
tbh I’m not sure. I’m just use to mixtapes with hiphop artists. Hoshi probably got to promote because his main skill is dance so when he released his project he obviously would want to show that off.
What I'm getting from Wikipedia for Duality is
Screenshot_20210921-114744_Chrome.jpg
So looks like they didn't release physicals to avoid censoring?? Idk how that makes sense but they had a reason to not release physicals ig
Honesty that kinda sucks tho for I.M first solo album
Also do you think that some mixtape have similar in these tracks rather than an solo album having a your colours /sounds
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