In the early Fifties Frank Sinatra was the first to put together meaningful albums such as Swinging Lovers or Only the Lonely. Coming out of the world of singles , no one knew exactly how to construct a twelve - song album that worked as a whole. Sinatra excelled at putting together a group of songs from a variety of sources with arrangements that created a mood : sad to the point of being maudlin on No One Cares , which came out in 1957 , upbeat to the point of cockiness on Come Fly with Me.It’s crazy to think that no one really understood how to put together a music album, but that’s the thing about treading on new waters! So for any artist out there wanting to create something new, just think, within the last century, the music album was a new invention.