Choosing my tracklist for the album

For my album, I obviously need a track list to make it a complete digipak. At first I wasn't sure what to do about creating a track list because I was initially going to make my own songs up but I thought if I did, the song names may not look professional. Therefore, I have decided to look at some existing albums from artists in the indie-pop genre to get some ideas and I will mix up all the songs from the albums I look at and this will form my track list for my own album.

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These are the artists I looked at in order to create my own track list. I searched their albums and then hovered over the title of the song which I am going to use for my own product.

At first I looked at Bastille. I looked at the album 'Bad Blood'. I chose the song title 'Oblivion' and because I liked the song titles so much I even chose another one called 'These Streets'. I don't know for definite if I will use these but I do think they are good.

I then looked at FKA Twigs as I know she is quite alternative and indie so her song titles would be good. I looked through the song titles and picked the one out that I liked the most and this was 'Give Up'. I feel as though it kind of fits in with the song I chose for my video which is 'Hold On'. I feel this would be a good add to my track list.

I then looked at Gotye. I didn't think I was going to be really interested in his album and his song titles but when I looked I was quite surprised at the ones I liked. After doing some debating, I came to the choice of the song title 'Making Mirrors'. I don't really know why I chose this one but it stood out to me and I thought it would look good on my own track list.

I then looked at Lykke Li. Lykke Li is an artist I know of and like so I knew I would find something off her album that I would like. I looked at one of her new albums and one of her old ones. From her new album, I picked out the song title 'Tonight' and from her old album I picked out the song 'Get Some'. I feel like these fit into the theme of short titled songs that are recurring on my track list. This is something I want as I don't really like long song titles.

I then looked at M83. M83 is a band I like and I knew I would find something on their album which appealed to me. I have this album on my phone so I do know their songs quite well and the song titled 'Wait'. Again, I really like this one and I think it fits in with the theme of short titled songs.

After this, I looked at Marina and the Diamonds and again, she is another artist who I know of very well. I chose the song titled 'Savages' because something about the song title intrigues me and it was something I wanted on my album. Again, it fits in with the theme of short titled song titles.

I then looked at SIA. I know she has quite unique song titles so I knew she would be a good person to look at. I chose the song title 'Cellophane' as this stands out to me for some reason and I wanted to add it onto my own track list.

 I then looked at St. Vincent. I have heard of her but never really listened to her before so I wasn't really familiar with the songs. Despite this, I chose the song title 'Digital Witness' as it stood out to me while looking at her album. I am not too sure if I will use this song title yet but it is still there to be chosen.







Finally, I looked at the artist 'SBTRKT' who is the artist of the song for my video 'Hold On'. The reason I decided to look at them is because obviously I am using one of their songs already so I thought it would be good to see if they had any other song titles which would appeal to me. I looked at one of their old albums and then their newest album.  From their old album I picked the      song title 'Never Never' and from      the new album I picked 'Everybody  Knows'. These again fit into the short titled song titles and I think these will look good on the track list I have created as a whole. Possibly as bonus tracks, I am not too sure yet.




So after looking at these, I have decided on the song titles I want on my track list. Obviously, most albums don't have loads of songs so I am going to keep it to around 10/11/12 songs on the track list.
Here are the song titles I have chosen:
Hold On (already on there, song for my video)
These Streets
Give Up
Tonight
Get Some
Wait
Savages
Never Never
Everybody Knows
Oblivion 

These are not all of the songs I looked at but they are pretty much the majority I looked at. I am really happy with these song titles and I think they will make a really good, successful and realistic looking back cover track list.