Are we ready for the singles life?

Yes, I'm happily married and NOT looking for the singles life. I'm talking about the new life of the recording industry, the singles life. The singles life that I am talking about is the music business getting away from albums and going to singles. I can remember in the 60s when I was a teenager, we had this small little record that had a big hole in the middle of it. You had to have this special fat spindle that slipped over that little on your record player. These little records were called 45s. They were 45s, as opposed to 33 1/3 records. The numbers have to do with the revolutions per minute. If you forgot to change the speed on the record player the 45 sounded like it was dragging and the Bass singers sounded really great. If you forgot to change the speed back, your albums sounded like Mickey Mouse or the Chipmunks. These 45s only had one song on each side. Sometimes, if they were radio cuts, the same song was on both sides.

Let me stop reminiscing and get to the topic at hand. With the invention of the MP3s and the downloading of songs on the computer or Ipod, the music business appears to be going BACK to the singles life style. You can go to most WalMarts now and simply download new songs from Country or Rock artists, but not much Christian music.
Somehow, our record labels are going to have to find a way to make singles available again. Somehow they will have to find a way to make money selling single.
Does this mean that all groups are going to have to make their songs available on their websites for fans to be able to download singles? Does this mean that major SG labels are going to have to set up websites so that customers can download singles from their websites.

Are we about to see the end of albums altogether? I don't think so, at least not for a while. First a lot of older fans will never be computer savy, so they will still be interested in CDs. Secondly, some great songs are on CDs that are never released to radio, so the only way to hear them is on the whole CD, so more than just the most popular songs will have to be made available. Lastly, some of still like to see the pictures and read the liner notes, so I'll have to buy the whole CD for that.

The singles lifestyle is NOT here today, but it's certainly coming.