Tom Ewing | What does the return of the single mean for music?

As music becomes as cheap as chips, singles should follow Lady Gaga's lead and make a fabulous meal of grabbing our attentionOnce upon a time, when pop was young and London swung, we were a nation of singles buyers. Albums provided a higher profit margin for the record companies, but it wasn't until the end of the 60s that the public started buying more albums than singles. Once they did though, that was that: LPs were the engine of the music industry, the focus of critical consideration. The fo...

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