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And Finally
Nelly disses label
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 1 December 2010
Nelly has been dissing his record label over the disappointing performance of his new album ‘5.0’, which was released by Universal Motown last month. Well, I think he has, though if you get that far through this Twitter rant, even with the helpful square bracketed missing words we’ve added in, you’re a better person than me. I think he reckons they’ve done a bad job on the marketing. He’s probably right. Or perhaps he’s made a shit record. Anyway, cue long Twitter ramble from the Nelly meister.
“A record deal is a 50/50 partnership! As [an] artist it’s your job to provide the record company with music that they [the record company] can sell! Thing about the partnership is that [in] the public eye the responsibility is not 50/50! The artist is always the one who catches 90% of the blame. When [an] artist doesn’t deliver sufficient material they gets its budget cut for [their] next album or worse dropped from the label! Who should be held responsible when [an] artist has a history for selling records so it’s not like a new artist [and] no one knows his [or] her name? The fact is that someone needs to hold up there end of the partnership! If you only ship 200 thousand [units] of an album how many are you fucking trying to sell? The artist does [not] control that nor does he or she control marketing”.
