Does anyone listen to albums any more? Or do you just listen to music?

Adele said to Spotify: Please remove the Shuffle button from my album so listeners can experience the album the way I intended.

Spotify said to Adele: Of course, Adele.  We love you.

Listeners said to Spotify and Adele: Okay. No problem. Can you also de-activate the “repeat’ button?

There was a survey done by Deezer in 2019 on this particular subject. They found that 15% of people under 25 had actually never listened to an album all the way through.

Adele just went up a few notches in my book with this one.  In a tweet, she said: “This was the only request I had in our ever-changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our tracklisting for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you, Spotify for listening.”

No, thank you, Adele! This is a refreshing change and I couldn’t agree more with her stance. Some of the greatest albums of all time tell beautiful flowing stories that deserve to be experienced in the way they were intended by the artists. I can only speak on music I have in my own music collection on this but listening to The Wall or Darkside Of The Moon by Pink Floyd on shuffle, for instance, is like reading the chapters of a great novel in random order. Albums like Wildflowers by Tom Petty and or ANY Lord Huron album. Concept albums like The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust, from Bowie, you need to have the rise before the fall.

By the way, this isn’t Spotify’s fault. It’s the CD Player’s fault.