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2024-11-20 22:45:20 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5D3753D1603FBD2A6F848881605AD662DE91F4BC20C292B88D3B08117B762F7F
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A global initiative led by IFPI in 2015 to standardize album releases is why albums now release on Friday, citing many benefits as the motivation, including piracy prevention. Friday was chosen as the result of a consumer poll, not because of Beyoncé's 2013 album. https://www.splinter.com/heres-why-new-music-now-comes-out-on-friday-instead-of-1793849060#:~:text=Beyonc%C3%A9%2C%20though%2C%20isn%E2%80%99t%20to%20blame%20for%20the%20change%20in%20the%20release%20date.%20Consumers%20are.%20When%C2%A0the%20International%20Federation%20of%20the%20Phonographic%20Industry%20(IFPI)%20polled%20consumers%20about%20when%20they%20wanted%20to%20receive%20new%20music%2C%20the%20majority%20preferred%20new%20music%20to%20come%20out%20on%20Friday%20or%20Saturday https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/26/new-music-to-be-released-on-fridays-worldwide-from-this-summer https://web.archive.org/web/20240928014604/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/music-industry-sets-friday-as-new-global-release-day-73480/
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