# Are music albums ‘history’?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-music-albums-history/984814>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [May 31, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-music-albums-history/984814 "2023-05-31T10:37:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-music-albums-history/984814/21 "2023-06-02T18:14:12Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> > [@zbuzz](#):
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> > You mean between people who stream and people who make actual purchases? I’m not sure I understand why that is an important distinction.
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> There have always been people who listen to music on the radio (or some similar, more modern media), but who never purchase music. For those people, albums have always been pretty much irrelevant.

Going by revenue figures and what other limited sets of data there are, it seems that people who purchase music (streaming service, digital download purchase, physical purchase) generally speaking don’t care much for albums either, but with the caveat that physical LP/EP sales are rising.

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