I'm certainly no expert on this but,
it seems like 2 years is a pretty standard span between albums ...
... I didn't take the time to look to see if all the ep songs ended up on albums.. but certainly all the songs were on one album or another .. right?
Carrie underwood,
4 albums 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Unde...iscography
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Lady Gaga 3(4*)
2008,(2009*). 2011, 2013
(*counting "the fame monster" 9 song ep as an album I really don't get the EP designation --that one particularly with mutiple hits looks like an album to me - the dance remix ep seems however doesn't strike me as album but just ..well as labeled)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga_discography
Beyonce 4 ablums
2003, 2006, 2008, 2011
(she had one EP in 2007 recording past songs in foreign languages.. same boat as dance re-mixes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreemplazable
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All three of them had some live recorded albums released etc but in my mind those are just ways of making extra $.. (which is good -- and I do buy them from artists I like -- I just don't consider them new albums from artists I like)
Thanks to the hard work of people here and abroad and things like iheart and tipcup, and modern technology we're getting the artistic satisfaction we'd get from the live albums on a piecework basis.
Money is a whole other bag.. but, that's more about popularity than a chance to make art . (certainly it is needed.. but using stardom to be a weigh watchers spokesman like Jenifer Hudson was able to do evidently pays far better than artists selling many times more albums)
Long and short
OF course WE WANT more! but we shouldn't feel like it is anything on the "bad break" end if there is a few years between releases....even the biggest mega-superstars often don't get better.
