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Holdenandthejets
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- #1
- Posted: 10/02/2014 03:42
- Post subject: Digital Era "Singles"
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What is the BEA policy on adding digital era one-off singles (Radiohead's The Daily Mail, U2's Invisible, things like that) as "albums"? From a technical standpoint they obviously are not albums, but the songs deserve recognition.
There's probably a simple explanation to this that I'm just ignorant to.
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CubaZed
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- #2
- Posted: 10/02/2014 03:53
- Post subject: Re: Digital Era "Singles"
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Holdenandthejets wrote: | What is the BEA policy on adding digital era one-off singles (Radiohead's The Daily Mail, U2's Invisible, things like that) as "albums"? From a technical standpoint they obviously are not albums, but the songs deserve recognition.
There's probably a simple explanation to this that I'm just ignorant to. |
BEA won't put it into their database unless the ep it was released on has longer than 4 songs or is longer than 20 minutes.
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Holdenandthejets
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- #3
- Posted: 10/02/2014 03:55
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Cool, thanks. Wish there was a way to see these songs on the chart though.
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meruizh
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- #4
- Posted: 10/02/2014 04:03
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Holdenandthejets wrote: | Cool, thanks. Wish there was a way to see these songs on the chart though. |
Song ratings are the closest you can get to this. I think that's enough. _________________ "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"
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Borve
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- Posted: 10/02/2014 10:20
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I guess maybe the song ratings could be removed from the albums, and instead artists could have a song database, so non-album tracks could added there and thus rated (and maybe a such database could help making the artists' songs-data neat, so you could edit information on a single track, and thus prevent Elvis Presley from having some of the highest rated songs of this century; from the track page you could label on which album(s) the songs appear on (if any), and then the given album pages could link to those, so that for instance two albums could link to the same song). Typing out this, I realized that I'm not interested in this idea at all lol
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denmarkman
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- #6
- Posted: 10/02/2014 18:13
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meruizh wrote: | Song ratings are the closest you can get to this. I think that's enough. |
You can't rate songs that aren't in the database.
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satiemaniac
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- #7
- Posted: 10/02/2014 20:33
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though i would personally love to see expansion of the site to include singles and EPs, as i think the ethos of best ever albums is restrictive for a lot of genres (even before the digital age, disco and its descendants like house and techno have far more frequently relied on the single format than the LP format... hell, the 78rpm era still represents perhaps the greatest epoch for quantity and [musical, not fidelity-wise] quality of blues recordings), I don't think that making a song database where only the most rating-wonky among us (read: people with RYM profiles) would ever see it is the right approach, nor do I think making special exceptions because now Thom Yorke or whoever is doing it is the right approach to take, as it would be taking a stance that clearly favors the evolution of rock music exclusively to the neglect of the aforementioned genres and others that have had complicated relationships with the album format.
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