Yes, though a radio station would often times start with an intro and let the record play through the next track (speaking as a child of the 70's when progressive rock / concept albums were at their peak). DJs & programming directors knew that certain tracks would not make sense on their own and would adjust.
I have a hunch that it's not streaming that's really responsible, per se, but the "Shuffle" function that's been available since the CD player. I tend to have a large playlist and more often than not, I set it to shuffle the tracks. But I did essentially the same thing when I had a 60 CD changer years ago, too. I think this trend probably started there, accelerated when MP3s and ripped CDs became popular (prior to steaming services) and streaming is just the next step in that progression.
The way we consume other media is likely to part of this as well, so saying it's streaming is perhaps a bit of a stretch even if streaming makes it possible to jump more easily.
(for the record I have not read the article, though I scanned it to be sure they were talking about streaming services).
Queen's "We Will Rock You"/"We Are The Champions", Boston's "Foreplay"/"Long Time", and Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius"/"Eye in the Sky" are examples of this. It's almost strange to only hear one half of the pair, and in the case of Foreplay and Sirius, those are completely instrumental.
SiriusXM's Beatles channel plays pairs of songs together when that is the norm on the radio. Some White Album songs basically lead into each other, iirc.
Radio used to be advertising for albums. Two are three singles from an album would get featured over the course of 6 to 9 months and if you liked them you'd buy the full album.
You didn't have much choice back then. A few songs were released as single tapes, but a full album wasn't much more expensive, plus many stores did not carry singles, or if they did, the selection was often small. There was no concept of a single CD.
Not to jump on, but there were definitely single CDs - the singles charts (Top 40) were compiled from the sale of CD Singles (and Cassingles, as the cassette versions were called). A #1 hit was determined by who sold the most CD singles, not albums - which is why pop music dominated the Top 10 singles charts, but rock bands would dominate the Top 10 albums. In Australia, a CD single cost $5 up to $10, while an album cost $30.
Also, CD singles were collectors items, because they would often come with bonus tracks that weren't available on the album or anywhere else. Sometimes they were just live recordings, but sometimes they were fully produced studio recordings that didn't quite make the cut for the album, but were still amazing. (Nirvana's "Even In His Youth" jumps to mind, as well as The Prodigy & Tom Morello collaboration "No Man Army".) I still remember my local 2nd-hand CD shop selling a rare Nirvana CD single for $100, and as a kid wishing I could afford to buy it.
I have a hunch that it's not streaming that's really responsible, per se, but the "Shuffle" function that's been available since the CD player. I tend to have a large playlist and more often than not, I set it to shuffle the tracks. But I did essentially the same thing when I had a 60 CD changer years ago, too. I think this trend probably started there, accelerated when MP3s and ripped CDs became popular (prior to steaming services) and streaming is just the next step in that progression.
The way we consume other media is likely to part of this as well, so saying it's streaming is perhaps a bit of a stretch even if streaming makes it possible to jump more easily.
(for the record I have not read the article, though I scanned it to be sure they were talking about streaming services).