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On what authority do you speak for Mr. Everyman? What studies are you presenting to justify your opinion? If you have none, then speak for yourself. YOU assess albums on a song-by-song basis. 'People' do many different things. I DO know many people who look at the album as a whole. More importantly, artists and producers do. Countless albums, from the Wall and Sgt Peppers (two of the most influential albums to date) to more recent albums such as Chicane and Radioheads offerings, are complete works.
You also persist in the trend from posters here, in ignoring every other genre outside pop music. Music is more than pop.
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Experience is just about all of my friends, and an additional 200 people (approx) on 10 different music fan forums. Like I said earlier, some of them do care about the full album experience, but what's being discussed the most is individual songs.
If all that mattered for most music fans and artists, was the whole album, then why are whole albums never played in their entity live? Why are we seeing more and more professional reviews rating albums song by song if regular people only care about the full album experience? Why do top lists for individual songs even exist?
What genre is Pop? Pop is whatever's popular at the moment. Beatles was pop in the sixties, jazz was pop in the thirties. If your definition of Pop is Pink and Linkin Park, then I'm definitely not just talking about that. Granted I do not listen much to jazz, classical, trance or death metal, but very little of what I listen to often makes it to the top lists. In fact, the most interesting music fan communities revolve around bands that aren't mainstream, as they generally attract a more mature and closed community.