Do you think songs long less than 3 minutes are the new trend?

[LeglessJamie]

I hope not. I find myself looking longer tracks better. Look at Meatloaf...he had songs of minutes long! Than there's Celine's It's all coming back to me now of 7 minutes...gosh I LOVE long tracks!! They feel so polished and detailed!

[PokemonSpears]

Yes and I hate it.

Like why even bother. Why even bother making a music video for a not even 3 min track 

[Stefani]

I hate it. Especially short songs that only have 2 choruses instead of 3. It's cheap and tacky and I hate TikTok for this.

[Blackout2006]

I’m a gen z but I wish that newer songs were 3 minutes long. 2 just feels so lazy
If the song is good, people will stream it no matter its length and if you choose to make it short...it just simply shows you’re insecure over whether the record will flop or not, and thus will make it shorter so streaming parties and delusional stans can stream it and get it to #1. Just like many songs and one song this week that went #1 and have or will start to free-fall by their second week...IF you know what I’m talking about 

However, it still depends because if it’s an album with like 12-14 tracks, then duh! Should I expect tracks of 3-4 minutes, but if you are doing an album with like....15-20 tracks, I can suggest 2 minute songs so it doesn’t feel bloated. A good example of it Chromatica, which has 16 tracks, yet 2 minute tracks with good quality

Just my 2 cents on it

[ObsessedBritFan1]

I hope not. This track is 3:07, for example, and if they repeated those last beats one more time, it would be epic! It just started to pick up but then they blue balls you.

 

[Isla]

Unfortunately, yes. There was three albums that I listened to this year that still had a variety of songs lengths (Folklore, Petals For Armor and Music To Be ******** By) but it seems most others have songs that are less than 4 minutes, some less than 3. Chromatica, Future Nostalgia, Smile, Positions, The Album, Rare.... most of the songs on those albums weren't super long at all. However, that hasn't stopped Chromatica and Future Nostalgia being two of my favourite albums released this year. 

[aleomg]

4 hours ago, Spicechinodiva said:

That was the radio Edit. 

They cut out two choruses, but I get what you mean. 

Yeah, same thing happened to Secret, Bedtime Story and Human Nature.

It’s “understandable” radio stations are not very fond of playing a 4:30-5:00 min song, but that’s the way artists used to make tracks back then. 

[Spicechinodiva]

Purple rain was over 8 Minutes long, done live it went 25 Minutes long, epic guitar solos who can blame the musician in prince. 

[bas che]

It appears that this is what gets them more spins / streams, therefore more money. 
 

it is only a matter of time before the charts come up with a way to rectify this and stop a song’s duration from having such a significant impact. 

[crazyboutbrit]

18 hours ago, Roxxy said:

Britney did it in 2015 before it became a real trend in 2018-ish, with the 2 minute and 44 second track, Pretty Girls.

 

Queen Roxxy 

[crazyboutbrit]

15 hours ago, jonjon2000 said:

There were couple of articles from last year about why this is the new way to go for songs and streaming business

• https://qz.com/quartzy/1438412/the-reason-why-your-favorite-pop-songs-are-getting-shorter/
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/28/18642978/music-streaming-spotify-song-length-distribution-production-switched-on-pop-vergecast-interview
• https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/01/songs-are-getting-shorter-and-streaming-is-to-blame.html

I liked this paragraph, as it describes what's happening since 2018, and maybe a bit before that, but it became the way to go:

 

Oh Wow ... thx for sharing, very interesting analysis 

[crazyboutbrit]

15 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

I think it's good for streams, and if it doesn't mess the integrity of the song then I say yes. Why make a song ~3 minutes long just cause that's what we think they should be. 

Get ready for 45 minute feature films

There's a piece of truth in that .... but my main concern is that can we really tell a story in less than 3 min song? Debatable i guess

[Korb]

A short song is not necessarily a bad song and a long song is not necessarily a good song either.
length does not equal quality.

I haven't noticed this as a trend at all, tbh.
but then again, I don't really pay attention to a song's length unless it FEELS unusually long or short.

[Roxxy]

4 minutes ago, Korb said:

A short song is not necessarily a bad song and a long song is not necessarily a good song either.
length does not equal quality.

Right. 7 rings is my best song.

[Korb]

Just now, Roxxy said:

Right. 7 rings is my best song.

Sadly sometimes in pop music the shortest songs are the most addicting and they leave you wanting more!
7 rings is iconic

[Roxxy]

2 minutes ago, Korb said:

Sadly sometimes in pop music the shortest songs are the most addicting and they leave you wanting more!
7 rings is iconic

Even tho I gave up that 90% for the win oh-woah~

[Korb]

1 minute ago, Roxxy said:

Even tho I gave up that 90% for the win oh-woah~

Where you been, Cletus?

[Roxxy]

3 minutes ago, Korb said:

Where you been, Cletus?

Your taste. 

Who the F is Cletus?

[dran]

I wanna feel myself with the music for longer than this short 2 minute business. Give me the full value. A nice 3:49 sure. We're starting to do some Walmart price roll back stuff here, I'm not down.

 

You know when you a hear a song that you connect with after not hearing something like that for awhile, you don't want it to end... I feel cheated. 

[girl_bye]

on one hand its great bc i can listen to more music on my short commute to work

on the other i have to constantly think abt what to listen to next