Should kpop album cycles/era become longer?

Absolutely. It's not even about viral songs i feel like most songs from albums should be promoted with performances and groups should not just continuously keep releasing 2+ albums every year.

I don't think so each group should comeback as often as they like whether it be short or long it's up to them and their company to dictate their music release timetables

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The mini album culture will completely be destroyed if eras become longer

Idk why?

Bts mini albums usually have 8-9 songs idk what's the industry average. But certainly they can promote 4 songs out of these?

definitely!

I really liked how blackpink promoted their last album 🥺

yes i'd be all for it. sometimes i feel like it is such a waste when a group releases a full album with over 10 songs and then only promote like 2. more and more artists should get to promote their whole albums and show off every song if possible.

for example i liked what Super Junior did with their Mamacita album in 2014. Instead of releasing a regular repackage with a new title track, they went back and gave MVs to two bsides from their original album and promoted them in music shows, add that to the bside artists usually promote in their comeback week and they ended up promoting 4 songs from the same album. in 2015 with their Devil album, they promoted a different bsides in each music show so they ended up promoting 5 songs from the same album. and in 2019 with their Super Clap album, even those they only promoted 2 songs in music shows, they still released 4 promotional videos for songs aside from the main MV. Yesung also did something similar for his mini album last year and 5 out of 7 songs got either MVs or official performance/live videos.

Definitely. Doesn’t need to have 6 singles but we should normalize at least one pre-release single but the gap with the lead single shouldn’t be too short so if the pre release ends being the bigger hit the lead doesn’t get overshadow.

It would be cool but that is way too much stress for idols as promotions are very hard of them. I would love to but I rather let the idols rest.

100% yes.

full albums could be fully appreciated and the rush for releasing a new one wouldn't be so frequent.

also, the shelf time of albums would be longer and the hype for a following album would get bigger.

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Only the company decide lol in most cases. I guess i want some more attention on the whole album instead of one song?

I can agree with that but I guess the idols themselves especially the bigger or more established ones have some say...

ahhh I was speaking with bunnyviolet about that like yesterday and yeah but it takes so much more effort to record entire albums or even minis as compared to one song and I'm guessing that if the company can package an actual physical product with that one (or sometimes two) songs they make as much money for less effort

definitely with full albums. And companies ignore viral kpop bsides but they should capitalise on that by making it a single and promoting it as one.