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JoJo leaves Blackground in the shade, flees to Atlantic
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 16 January 2014
One-time pop infant, now ‘grown woman’, JoJo has signed to Warner’s Atlantic Records, having broken with long-time label Blackground Music, reports the LA Times.
The split with Blackground was, somewhat infamously, a long time coming, dating back to a legal battle circling the postponement of JoJo’s third LP, which – despite her claiming last year that she’d made three variants of it in a bid to appease the label – still hasn’t been released.
Back in July JoJo, real name Joanna Levesque, filed a lawsuit against Blackground referencing the label’s failure to put out the LP and to pay various collaborators. Having signed with the label as a minor, aged twelve, in 2004, the lawsuit also claimed that the contract ceased to be binding after seven years, in New York as well as California.
Anyway, she’s finally “freed” and beginning afresh with Atlantic, having apparently sealed the new deal in December.