DM60
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Found it!
Here's the correct way to sequence your album: https://web.archive.org/web/2009022...npages/cms_content/17075/everyalbum_final.jpg
Obviously for a CD
Found it!
Here's the correct way to sequence your album: https://web.archive.org/web/2009022...npages/cms_content/17075/everyalbum_final.jpg
Yeah, but your formula has a space for the listener to flip over the record, ya dinosaur!
Really, the most important song is the first one. You need a hook that will grab the listener's attention right away. Then the next two songs need to also be great to keep their attention.
I think the tendency is for the fourth song to be very different - often much softer - than the first 3. That's probably something to be wary of since it can set the tone for the rest of the album. Listeners might feel like it's a bait-and-switch and sour on the rest of the album.
Then, of course, the last song should *actually* be the best song on the album, but unmarketable for some reason.
But we're not marketing our music for each other. WE all know what's up, THEY don't. So you play by their rules/subconscious designs.
Well, I'm not marketing my music, but if I was, it would be for US, which is the set of me and everyone who thinks the same way I do about music.