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Spotify has its own definition
https://intercom.help/music-hub/en/articles/6159116-will-my-release-be-displayed-as-a-single-ep-or-album-on-the-streaming-services
An EP (short for Extended Play) contains more tracks than a single, but less tracks than a full album. If a release has four to six tracks with a total running time of 30 minutes or less, it will be classified as an EP by both Apple Music and Spotify.
Based on this strict definition, Ethel Cain's Inbred (6 songs, 31:32) and Golden Age (6 songs, 30:27), for example, were classified as albums, although they are clearly EPs
 
To make things even more complicated, Discogs calls Paradise a Mini-Album
https://www.discogs.com/de/master/580413-Lana-Del-Rey-Paradise
so it looks like it is technically an LP after all

stop because i do this too. spotify even labels paradise as an album rather than an ep as well. i just wish lana included burning desire and y&b on the paradise so that it could be long enough for people to consider it a full album. 

stop because i do this too. spotify even labels paradise as an album rather than an ep as well. i just wish lana included burning desire and y&b on the paradise so that it could be long enough for people to consider it a full album. 

stop because i do this too. spotify even labels paradise as an album rather than an ep as well. i just wish lana included burning desire and y&b on the paradise so that it could be long enough for people to consider it a full album. 

Yeah i have never really seen it as an extension of BTD. Thats why even on spotify i insist on listening to the BTD deluxe on its own and the Paradise EP on its own.

even if Aka isn't considered as first album, they could count the audiobook of Violet (spoken word album) as one...

i think it counts AKA as her first studio album (and born to die as first major label), making ocean blvd 9th but
i think paradise is an EP that should’ve been an album and we are all free to consider an album and i consider it as such  

I’ve always considered it an album but maybe I’m biased because it’s my top 3

It is a separate project. Though I still view it as an EP rather than an album. Lana said in 2012 interviews that it’s a separate body of work (than BTD), and the EP has a separate tour, era etc.
Kinda bothered me when people merged paradise as a part of BTD
 
Plus… paradise is 100000x better than BTD…

I also think paradise is an album for the most part. More like a double album to born to die (wish it got 1 more song tbh)

I say yes!
 
I see lots of people arguing about this for some reason? And I just wanted your opinions.
 
Lana’s Spotify description (before it was changed to blank) stated that Born To Die was her debut album (which I agree with) and Ocean Blvd’s album cover states that it is Lana’s 9th album. 
 
Therefore, since BTD is her debut, Paradise would have to be considered an album to make up the 9, no?
1. BTD
2. Paradise
3. UV
4. HM
5. LFL
6. NFR
7. COTCC
8. BB
9. Ocean Blvd
(and 10 obviously TRPWS)

Not only that but it’s listed as an album on Spotify and it does qualify as an album not an EP.
 
I personally believe that Paradise is a separate album!
 
Now I’ve tried to have this conversation with people before but they were always on the defensive for some reason and I was hoping to have a decent normal person conversation with people about this topic.
 
 

omg she just DM’d me and said after the snippet ends there’s a beat drop & electric guitars and heavy reverb and a trap beat 

i’m at school and i’m laughing at this thread SEND HELP I LOVE THESE RATS
 

remember how happy everyone was when they changed the picture on the this is lana del rey spotify playlist 

Flipside and Is This Happiness destroy me every time I listen to these!

girl i included it in the list which makes six songs

what if .. the sixth title is Ocean Blvd itself 

I thought it had all those words as one title and that’s why Neil said she’s crazy for considering it?
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i know this thread is going to get deleted but i need people to know i just found out (and hope im not the last to) psycho lifeguard isn't one title because she said ocean blvd original title had SIX titles and psycho lifeguard being together would only make it five titles
 
Ocean Blvd, Pearl, Watch Me On, Ring A Bell, Psycho, Lifeguard

This is so cute!! Love how it looks, I’d love to see more <3 I made a lyric book last year, but I didn’t include pre-BTD. I also didn’t want to sell it or anything because I’m scared of copyright and idk how it all works

Not planning on being sued by Polydor or Interscope.

i bet she will have a track on the album called question for the culture.
 
or question for the bayou

Wait... what If Those trans-am lyrics are early shades of Cool lyrics

in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go cause it's nice to love and be loved but it's better to know all you can know said it's nice to love and be loved but I'd rather know what god knows 

this is the best song on AKA, one of my faves... i can imagine her singing it in some bar in NYC, mourning after the lover she let go....