You also might not have your own songs on the album. Would 6 songs be an ep or album? That sounds about right to me. Not every song on this set is a winner -- "Never Forget to Boogie" hardly sounds like the work of a first-class songwriter -- but the tone of A Reasonable Amount of Trouble is one of a man enjoying himself as he makes an album he never expected he'd be able to record. Music box and other albums come pretty even with around 30 M. Would also like to clarify that Mariah Carey sold 17 M, Butterfly sold 18 M, Emancipation of Mimi around 14-15 M by now, Rainbow around 9-12 M, the Unplugged album sold above 15 M , the Emotion Cd sold 8 M, +charmbracelet 4 M, Glitter around 3 M ...please check your numbers We rank Tool's five studio albums, one EP and one live album. That doesn't mean you can't write/create more songs, they just might not make the cut. Note: the argument can be made (usually by me, to everyone) that Tool has yet to make a bad album… Anyone got any suggestions? In the new structure, 150 streams of a song equals one paid download, and ten paid downloads equates to an album download. Also if you ever plan on pressing to records it's easier to work with shorter songs. So, an artist’s music will have to be streamed on any of the approved, included services 1,500 times for an album “sale” to be counted. Usually I find that a regular album contains about 40 minutes of music. It depends on the type of music the album contains. The … So 40/3=13.3 songs per album. I've seen albums that have around 6-15 songs. An 8 minute song eats up 2 song slots, so to speak, where as a 5 minute one may not. So, my bands working on its first album and we are not sure how many songs we should have in the album were doing. With the same amount of space, your collection of symphonies clocking in at 7 minutes per track at 256 Kbps yields a bit more than 36 hours of music, a total of 315 songs. I've got a really short question to ask. Typically though you would get a record deal and then the record studio would probably make the call of how many songs are on the album. Now, if that is a typical rock/pop/country/rap/hip hop album made anywhere from 1960ish to now, each song is gonna be around 3 minutes. Conversely, a podcast pushing out monaural sound at 64 Kbps and running for 45 minutes per episode gives you 140 hours of talking over 190 shows.