According to CNN, record companies are doing away with the single, in order to get people to buy full albums instead.

This comes at the same time that they complain so loudly about music piracy. Here's a quiz: Do you think eliminating singles is going to make the listener (A) More Likely or (B) Less Likely to obtain the song they want in a way that gives money to the record label?

Personally, I think this is a long-term ploy to increase piracy and decrease record label revenues so the RIAA can have some teeth when it tries to show Congress that music piracy is killing their industry.

It reminds me of when my sister used to bite her arm and then run to mom, show her the teeth marks and tell her I did it. Funny how that stopped working when I lost my front two baby teeth and she kept trying it...