7 Ways Listening to an Entire Album Will Improve Your Life

Why dedicate the year to listening to an album a day, an essentially outdated musical format?

1. Listening to a collection of songs that were meant to be heard from beginning to end will increase your parched attention span.
2. Listening to an album is like reading a book, except faster, so it will make you smarter. Faster.
3. Getting to know an artist by listening to an entire album makes that artist more meaningful to you and less disposable.
4. You increase your chances to learn something, such as a literary or historic reference, a different point of view, or an appreciation for an artist’s inspiration.
5. Listening to music improves your mood; the longer you listen, the better your mood.
6. You will have more to talk about and others will find you more interesting.
7. Connecting with an artist, through more than one or two songs, can provide evidence that we are not alone, that others have felt like we do.