What is a Single (as in pop/rock music)?!
Question: What is a Single (as in pop/rock music)!?
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A single is an disc (or some other medium) released with two (although sometimes three) songs!.
LP - The "album"
EP - Too few songs to be an LP, too many songs to be a single
Single - 2 (or 3) songs!.
Most of these terms have lost their meaning in the digital age!.
The A-Side of a single is the song the producer hopes will become popular and receive airplay!. In some cases, singles are released as Double A-Sides (such as The Beatles' 1969 single "Something/Come Together")!.
Most of the time, the single is a song selected from a group or artist's upcoming LP!. The Beatles, for instance, occasionally released a stand-alone single with no connection to an album!. "Lady Madonna/The Inner Light" is an example of this!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
LP - The "album"
EP - Too few songs to be an LP, too many songs to be a single
Single - 2 (or 3) songs!.
Most of these terms have lost their meaning in the digital age!.
The A-Side of a single is the song the producer hopes will become popular and receive airplay!. In some cases, singles are released as Double A-Sides (such as The Beatles' 1969 single "Something/Come Together")!.
Most of the time, the single is a song selected from a group or artist's upcoming LP!. The Beatles, for instance, occasionally released a stand-alone single with no connection to an album!. "Lady Madonna/The Inner Light" is an example of this!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The record companies used to pick a song or two off of an album and release them as a single!. As in you could buy a record/tape/cd of just that song usually along with a B-Side (the term dates from the days or records) that was not part of the album the single was from!. The notion of the single has kind of died as far as sales go but this is the reason why when a band releases an album you only hear one or two songs from it on the radio!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Its a song released before an album comes out!. The powers that be do it to sorta promote the album and to get the word out!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
song on an album that is "taken" from that album in order to promote that album because of that songs rising popularity!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It is what the title says, a single!.!.!.not only in pop/rock music!.Www@Enter-QA@Com