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Thread started 04/17/17 3:29pm

hollywood0024

Artists with big gaps between releases?

Let's discuss...

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Reply #1 posted 04/17/17 3:38pm

nammie

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Sade takes FOREVER to release new music.... 10 years, I think, was the gap from the last two CD's

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Reply #2 posted 04/17/17 3:41pm

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D'Angelo
Michael Jackson
D'Angelo
Bruno Mars
D'Angelo
Beyonce
D'Angelo
Rihanna
D'Angelo
Adele
D'Angelo
Drake (until 2015)
D'Angelo
George Michael
D'Angelo
Madonna
D'Angelo
Taylor Swift

Oh yeah... D'Angelo
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Reply #3 posted 04/17/17 4:02pm

Graycap23

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MotownSubdivision said:

D'Angelo Michael Jackson D'Angelo Bruno Mars D'Angelo Beyonce D'Angelo Rihanna D'Angelo Adele D'Angelo Drake (until 2015) D'Angelo George Michael D'Angelo Madonna D'Angelo Taylor Swift Oh yeah... D'Angelo

Badu & Maxwell also.

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Reply #4 posted 04/17/17 4:25pm

Marrk

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Stevie Wonder. sigh

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Reply #5 posted 04/17/17 4:52pm

MickyDolenz

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Basia

Swing Out Sister

The Monkees

The Time/Original 7ven

Jermaine Jackson

Jesse Johnson

Bell Biv DeVoe

New Edition

Johnny Gill

El DeBarge

Hall & Oates (after the 1980s)

Stevie Wonder (after 1987)

Power Station

Black Ivory

Eagles

Don Henley

Van Halen

Chuck Berry

Lisa Stansfield

Go-Go's

The Cars

The Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

Kraftwerk

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #6 posted 04/17/17 4:57pm

MickyDolenz

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Steely Dan

Donald Fagen

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #7 posted 04/17/17 5:27pm

Dasein

MotownSubdivision said:

D'Angelo Michael Jackson D'Angelo Bruno Mars D'Angelo Beyonce D'Angelo Rihanna D'Angelo Adele D'Angelo Drake (until 2015) D'Angelo George Michael D'Angelo Madonna D'Angelo Taylor Swift Oh yeah... D'Angelo


LMBAO!

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Reply #8 posted 04/17/17 6:25pm

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How I miss the days of artist releasing albums every year, every other year at the most and sometimes they'd release two albums in same year.
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Reply #9 posted 04/18/17 1:08am

SoulAlive

*Jamiroquai---I'm enjoying their new album so much but I hate the long wait between albums

*Lauryn Hill----at this point,I think it's safe to say that she's probably NOT gonna release any more albums,lol

*Sade----but the thing is,their fans are extremely patient and loyal.When they finally do release a new album,it will be huge.

*D'Angelo

*Maxwell

*Stevie Wonder---I give him a pass,though.He's released a ton of albums in his long career.If he never releases another album,that's OK.We have more than enough Stevie Wonder music to enjoy in our lifetime.

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Reply #10 posted 04/18/17 10:37am

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Graycap23 said:



MotownSubdivision said:


D'Angelo Michael Jackson D'Angelo Bruno Mars D'Angelo Beyonce D'Angelo Rihanna D'Angelo Adele D'Angelo Drake (until 2015) D'Angelo George Michael D'Angelo Madonna D'Angelo Taylor Swift Oh yeah... D'Angelo

Badu & Maxwell also.

Definitely.

I'll also include Janet and Frank Ocean.
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Reply #11 posted 04/18/17 12:08pm

JoeBala

Fiona Apple every 7-8 years She only has 4 LP/CD/DL since the 90's.

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Reply #12 posted 04/18/17 8:12pm

SoulAlive

daingermouz2020 said:

How I miss the days of artist releasing albums every year, every other year at the most and sometimes they'd release two albums in same year.


yeah I remember in the 70s,an album a year was the norm.Donna Summer released two albums in 1977,one of which was a 2-LP set!
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Reply #13 posted 04/18/17 9:01pm

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Eve
Solange

Monie Love
Missy Elliott

full lips, freckles, and upturned nose
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Reply #14 posted 04/19/17 1:31am

NorthC

Kate Bush in her later years:
The Red Shoes 1993
Aerial 2005
50 Words For Snow 2011
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Reply #15 posted 04/19/17 6:06am

kygermo

A band called TOOL.

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Reply #16 posted 04/19/17 6:14am

missfee

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Raphael Saadiq. Its been 6 years since his last solo album...he keeps hinting year after year that he's working on the new album and I get that he also has other projects he's working on, but man oh man do I crave new music from this brother!!!! pout

I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #17 posted 04/19/17 8:06am

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SoulAlive said:

daingermouz2020 said:

How I miss the days of artist releasing albums every year, every other year at the most and sometimes they'd release two albums in same year.


yeah I remember in the 70s,an album a year was the norm.Donna Summer released two albums in 1977,one of which was a 2-LP set!


I had to go back and look. Michael Jackson would have something out every year if you include the Jackson albums once they went to CBS they had releases from 1976 1977,1978 then Mike's Off the Wall in 79. The Jacksons had a release in 1980 and 1981 then came Thriller and that was pretty much it for them
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Reply #18 posted 04/19/17 8:15am

JoeBala

How about artists who puts an album out every year (or to stretch it every two years) since their debut? Besides Prince.

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Reply #19 posted 04/19/17 8:19am

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daingermouz2020 said:

SoulAlive said:



yeah I remember in the 70s,an album a year was the norm.Donna Summer released two albums in 1977,one of which was a 2-LP set!


I had to go back and look. Michael Jackson would have something out every year if you include the Jackson albums once they went to CBS they had releases from 1976 1977,1978 then Mike's Off the Wall in 79. The Jacksons had a release in 1980 and 1981 then came Thriller and that was pretty much it for them
True and that's not even mentioning the Jackson 5 years at Motown.

So "Michael Jackson (from 1982 onward)" would be a better description. One can make the same argument for Phil Collins with Genesis. Ever since Phil joined, the band dropped an album in 1971, '72, '73, '74, 2 albums in '76, one in '78, 1980, Phil made his solo debut in '81 when Genesis also dropped Abacab, Phil had an album in '82, Genesis in '83, no new albums in '84 but Phil and the band both had chart presence with singles ("That's All" for Genesis, "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" for Phil), Phil in '85, Genesis in '86 with singles presence well into '87, Phil in '89, Genesis in '91, Phil in '93, Phil in '96, Genesis in '97 and then Phil in '99 with the Tarzan soundtrack.

That's a pretty productive streak and when you take note of this, it's not surprising why Phil was such a ubiquitous figure in the 80's.
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Reply #20 posted 04/19/17 8:20am

JoeBala

Found this:

Who are some country singers that release a new album every year?
Just wondering.
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Aaron Ellis

Currently, Willie Nelson is the most prolific country musician. He has released over ten albums every decade since the 1960s. Looking at this current decade, he's on pace to continue.

  • Country Music (2010)
  • Remember Me Vol 1 (2011)
  • Heroes (2012)
  • Let's Face The Music and Dance (2013)
  • To All The Girl (2013)

Toby Keith has put out a new album every year since 2005.
  • Honkytonk University (2005)
  • White Trash with Money (2006)
  • Big Dog Daddy (2007)
  • That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy (2008)
  • American Ride (2009)
  • Bullets in the Gun (2010)
  • Clancy's Tavern (2011)
  • Hope on the Rocks (2012)
  • Drinks After Work (2013)

If you include their Christmas album, Lady Antebellum has released four albums over the last four years.
  • Need You Now (2010)
  • Own the Night (2011)
  • On This Winter's Night (2012)
  • Golden (2013)
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Reply #21 posted 04/19/17 9:22am

namepeace

nammie said:

Sade takes FOREVER to release new music.... 10 years, I think, was the gap from the last two CD's


It was about 9 years between Love Deluxe and Lovers Rock and 9 between Lovers Rock and Soldier of Love.

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Reply #22 posted 04/19/17 9:24am

namepeace

MotownSubdivision said:

Graycap23 said:

Badu & Maxwell also.

Definitely. I'll also include Janet and Frank Ocean.


Frank did release 2 albums in '16.

With Maxwell and D having released albums in the last 16 months . . . Badu is now on the clock . . .

Bilal went almost a decade between 1st Born Second and Airtight's Revenge. But he's been relatively prolific since.

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #23 posted 04/19/17 9:25am

namepeace

I'd include, on the hip-hop side:

Andre 3000 (14 years)

Q-Tip (9 years since last solo album)

Madvillain (13 years)

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Reply #24 posted 04/19/17 9:36am

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namepeace said:



MotownSubdivision said:


Graycap23 said:


Badu & Maxwell also.



Definitely. I'll also include Janet and Frank Ocean.


Frank did release 2 albums in '16.

With Maxwell and D having released albums in the last 16 months . . . Badu is now on the clock . . .

Bilal went almost a decade between 1st Born Second and Airtight's Revenge. But he's been relatively prolific since.

After 4 years. Him releasing 2 albums in the same year means no one should be expecting any music with his name on it for at least the next 8 years.
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Reply #25 posted 04/19/17 10:01am

MickyDolenz

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namepeace said:

Andre 3000 (14 years)

Does he really count? He's never relased anything outside of OutKast by himself like Big Boi has, so to me it is OutKast that hasn't released anything. André has done several guest appearances on other acts songs, so he's not exactly totally inactive. I count a collabo as a release, so there's not really a big gap.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #26 posted 04/19/17 8:41pm

woogiebear

D'Angelo & Dr. Dre

cool cool

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Reply #27 posted 04/20/17 9:37am

namepeace

MotownSubdivision said:

namepeace said:


Frank did release 2 albums in '16.

With Maxwell and D having released albums in the last 16 months . . . Badu is now on the clock . . .

Bilal went almost a decade between 1st Born Second and Airtight's Revenge. But he's been relatively prolific since.

After 4 years. Him releasing 2 albums in the same year means no one should be expecting any music with his name on it for at least the next 8 years.


Fair, but when it comes to the major talents in R&B in the last 3 decades, 4 years isn't terribly long. Sad, but true.

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

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Reply #28 posted 04/20/17 9:41am

namepeace

MickyDolenz said:

namepeace said:

Andre 3000 (14 years)

Does he really count? He's never relased anything outside of OutKast by himself like Big Boi has, so to me it is OutKast that hasn't released anything. André has done several guest appearances on other acts songs, so he's not exactly totally inactive. I count a collabo as a release, so there's not really a big gap.


Fair, but for all intents and purposes, TLB was a solo album, and the gap remains, as 3 Stacks hasn't released anything solo or within OutKast since 2006's Idlewild.

"Releases" are different from featured appearances, which do not generally count as a release within a discography.

He's been featured on dozens of tracks over the last several years, but he hasn't released anything.

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Reply #29 posted 04/20/17 10:21am

MickyDolenz

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namepeace said:

Fair, but for all intents and purposes, TLB was a solo album, and the gap remains, as 3 Stacks hasn't released anything solo or within OutKast since 2006's Idlewild.

"Releases" are different from featured appearances, which do not generally count as a release within a discography.

He's been featured on dozens of tracks over the last several years, but he hasn't released anything.

That's what I mean. If he's never had a solo album out, he can't have a gap between releases. Only OutKast can. On my list I didn't post people that are inactive, that can be a lot of perfomers. But that there are big gaps between actual albums like Sade, which is what I thought the OP was asking. Or that upcoming Chuck Berry album. His last album came out in 1979.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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