Quote Originally Posted by sup_fan View Post
it's my belief that they were simply going for more sales, not chart rankings or artistic statements/merit

If 1 album can sell 500,000, what happens if they release 2 albums? sure that first album might drop in sales to 350,000 but the second album might sell 200 - 300,000 itself. and now you have TOTAL sales of nearly 600,000. that's more money

Especially as they were approaching the holiday season.

The only way Motown was going to get more sales by releasing more albums by The Supremes & The Four Tops was if those albums had generated major hits. Only The Magnificent Seven had a hit single with "River Deep Mountain High" while the other two LPs didn't have any.