American Idol Preps Label Change?
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The New York Post is reporting that Simon Cowell’s departure from American Idol is not the only major change that is occuring for the show. It is reported that Idol’s executive producer, Simon Fuller is reaching out to new labels to distribute American Idol artists signed through 19 Entertainment. It appears that upon the the completion of Idol’s ninth season marked the end of 19’s contract with Sony Music Entertainment who would distribute Idol artists through its various different labels. (RCA Records, J. Records , RCA Music Group, Jive Records, Jive Label Group,, RCA/Jive Label Grroup, Arista Nashville)
While it is no secret that not every Idol winner is commerciallu successful, a new deal with Simon Fuller and a new distributing label can still be seen as a very profitable investment in a failing music industry . examples of this can be found in Carrie Underwood’s 11.5 million Sold (Arista Nashville), Kelly Clarkson’s 10 Million sold (RCA Records) and Chris Daughtry becoming a top seller behind Miley Cyrus with 3 million of his debut. (RCA Recordss) Even many of the lesser selling artists still achive traction with platinum status, both Jordin Sparks (Jive Records) and David Cook (RCA Records) both managed to sell over one million albums with their share of hit records in their own rights.
