I think that listening to singles instead of albums at a time is a new thing, because now we have the option to easily skip tracks and go to a new artist entirely. It takes about five seconds, maybe less, to switch songs to a completely different artist that we feel like listening to.
When there were just vinyls, in order to change the artist, you had to get up, walk to the record player, take off the vinyl, switch to a different one, etc, it just took too much work (for a lazy person). So most people enjoyed the album and just left it on; they didn't have the option to just download one song they like onto their iPod.
This resulted in artists now making singles that people can buy (or illegally download) so they get more money but just with one song. If you happen to like one song by one artist, you can just get that one instead of having to buy the whole album, and that's why I think most people like to listen to singles and not albums anymore. Plus, no one has the attention span. As time has progressed, music genres and types of music have broadened a LOT, so there are more types of music to listen to instead of confining yourself to one type and one artist.
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