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[Generated by AI / Scholarly Draft] Publication: Journal of Popular Music Studies (Hypothetical)

The Progeny of the Hit: A Structural and Commercial Analysis of the "Offspring Album" in Popular Music offspring albums

Music Industry, Album Cycle, Paratext, Radiohead, Nirvana, Post-Napster Economics, B-Side Culture. 1. Introduction The canonical "album era" (c. 1967–1999) operated on a logic of scarcity: one major artistic statement every 18 to 24 months. However, the economic pressure following the CD boom (low replication costs) and the subsequent digital collapse (high promotional costs) gave rise to a paradoxical artifact: the album that exists because of another album. This paper terms this artifact the Offspring Album (OA). [Generated by AI / Scholarly Draft] Publication: Journal