Magic Microphones
Summer Sounds
SUMMER means music. It’s the season of the beach blanket jam, the prom song, the blockbuster movie soundtrack, the open-air amphitheater show.
For the music industry, however, summer has always been something of a paradox. It’s a crucial time for singles — there’s no better exposure for a pop song than to have it pumping out of Jeeps and boomboxes — but when it comes to albums, summer tends to be Tumbleweed City. To maximize sales around the year-end holidays, record companies often withhold big releases until the fall, leaving few major titles for July and August.
Luckily for fans, though, that pattern is changing. In a sign that record labels are relying less on the fourth quarter, the docket of releases this summer is one of the strongest in years.
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