The phrase "album dips" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to instances when an album's popularity or sales decline, often after an initial release period.
Example: "After a strong debut, the album dips in sales during the second month, indicating a need for renewed marketing efforts."
Alternatives: "album declines" or "album drop-off".
The second half of the album dips gently into something of a mush.
Heavier, darker, sillier and more haunting, the new album dips into oceans of blues, rockets off aboard celestial choirs, settles down into genteel guitar musings, shudders with rickety bassline generators and ex presses a hugeness of feeling in 56 varieties of robo-voice.
And although the album dips on what would have been "side two", there's no denying the quality of even the weaker songs, which are uniformly complex yet catchy, with a firm grasp of the cold/warm polarity so essential for perfect pop.
Occasionally, the album dips into other genres such as adult contemporary music and dance music.
However, in its fourteenth week, the album dipped to number ten on the Billboard 200 with 45,000 copies sold.
Not that popular culture hasn't instilled those links in us, but Los Hombres have taken the time to spell them out with their three studied, programmatic albums, dipping into each particular rhythm and spreading Gulf Coast funk over the top.
A set dominated by the new album, and dipping into the last one, confirms two things those records suggested.
He pointed to the career of 1980s pop star George Michael, who saw his album sales dip after he came out as a gay man in 1998.
It picked up instruments like accordion and saxophone and toyed with electronica, and its studio albums have dipped into gleaming orchestral pop, bossa nova and tango.
"Spiritual," Charlie Haden Family & Friends (2008): Part of an album-length dip into the lush Americana at Haden's roots, this recording was a family affair with appearances by Haden's children, who essentially constitute an L.A. musical dynasty.
While picking up a copy of 2001's Greatest Hits could easily satiate a newbie, it's the way these songs are injected into albums to dip and dart across genre lines that makes them most effective.
