All great albums, all by great artists.
No offense to any of these artists, but its time for this madness to stop.
That said, there are, of course, some benefits to special releases.
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This often entails pressing a limited number of special RSD variants, or in some cases, separate merchandise.
This can significantly drive up the revenue for independent record stores.
But, what about the other 363 days in a year?
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Why cant we simply go back to an album being what it is, with just one release?
Thats four different spots across three different charts, all for some variation of the same album.
We don’t always need to run everything into the ground with marketing over saturation.
