Recording a single is Advantageous in many ways

Singles or albums? This is the question we have pursed on our lips today.

If there had never been singles, we would have been deprived of this:
Tina Turner without Ike http://pribek.net/2007/10/06/music-industry-rip/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNXsne8exg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7s5fSNkIM&NR=1
and-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSy5I3zsAA

see these links on Music Business:
http://pribek.net/2008/04/02/lets-get-a-hippie-in-here/
http://pribek.net/2007/10/08/more-on-tunickthe-future-of-the-music-businessorgan-grinders-monkey/
http://pribek.net/2008/02/19/hard-times-for-the-labor-of-love/

-and-

"The Searchers were arguably the greatest of the 'other' Liverpool groups. They produced a string of singles which compared in quality to the Beatles but possibly lacked the scale of originality and inventiveness peculiar to their famous rivals. They too had been a popular act in Hamburg and the Cavern and became famous on both sides of the Atlantic. "http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirs/searchers.htm
--or--

This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfxAEw0Exa0

and congruency--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg31kQiP1Zg