Is Annie Lennox the latest artist to be dropped by her label?

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   deadmandeadman says Do you see the bottom line? Ms lennox would be better off without a label. More artistic freedom, less overhead, and she's already built a fan base (which she alienated, but she built another one, which she alienated, etc, ad nauseum) So the name recognition is there. She's always been kinda self-indulgent which doesn't sit well with the suits and ties. Oh they like art all right, but, as Randy Newman says..."Its Money (they) like".

   Permalink posted 01/16/2008
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   davesonic says She is in a perfect position to pull a "Radiohead"

   Permalink posted 01/17/2008
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   mktackabery says from Annie's website: January 15th 2008 An article has been published in today’s Daily Mirror stating that I’d been “dumped” by Sony BMG. As you know, this is completely untrue. My recording contract with the company has simply expired. They obviously have been reading my blogs, but have completely misinterpreted and misreported what I’ve written. I was referring to being totally let down by the South African branch of Sony BMG who completely disappeared, when I came to perform for the 46664 campaign in Johannesburg. In the same blog, I complimented the Norwegian company, who were absolutely great...as were the representatives from Italy and France. I had a meeting with Ged Docherty, the head of UK Sony BMG this afternoon, who was absolutely mortified by the piece. The paper will be publishing a retraction tomorrow. Annie Lennox Please find the statement from Sony BMG UK below: London - 15/01/08 - Sony BMG UK sets the record straight on the company’s relationship with Annie Lennox reported in today's Daily Mirror and other media Sony BMG today moved to set the record straight on its relationship with Annie Lennox following a ludicrous report originating in the Daily Mirror that the artist had been dropped by her label. Annie's career with the company has spanned over 25 years, including 15 as a solo artist, and seen her become one of the UK's greatest ever artists, with 80 million album sales and 33 hit singles. In that time Annie has been honoured with 4 Grammies, 11 BRIT Awards, 5 Ivor Novello Awards, an Oscar and 2 Golden Globes among many other accolades. Her last album due under the existing contract was released in October 2007. Ged Doherty, Chairman of Sony BMG Music Entertainment UK, said “We are immensely proud to have worked with Annie over more than 2 decades. She now has a choice as to whether she wants to continue to work with us in the future. We very much hope that she will.” The quotes attributed to Annie’s dissatisfaction with her label arose out of a trip in December to South Africa and have no relevance to the expiry of her contract. Sony BMG will continue to work with Annie on her current album as well as on her SING project in support of HIV AIDS sufferers www.annielennoxsing.com. While the press posturing is nice, I cannot believe that less than three months after launching an international advertising campaign for her new album, Sony/BMG has failed to secure Annie Lennox's contract. Just last month there was a huge Vanity Fair, People, US mag spread I saw . . . a campaign that requires a huge commitment. Such idiocy. I think she should pull a Radiohead. She has alienated a lot of people in the past, but since I don't pay attention to that drama shit, I don't particularly care . . . only the music matters to moi. Rock on Annie.

   Permalink posted 01/17/2008
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   jameson says And it's interesting to point out that Annie Lennox's demographic is the same demographic that is still purchasing hard copies of cd's, rather than purchasing digitally. Couple that with the reasonable assumption that she will sell a couple of million copies worldwide, and support the release with touring, she is still a money-making machine for Sony/BMG and it's not a good signal that she hasn't received a new contract as of yet. I'm looking for big changes, retraction or not.

   Permalink posted 01/17/2008
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   mktackabery says Let's hope so j. I guess it will take the Annie's and Madonna's of the world to affect any kind of change at all. It's interesting about your comment about Annie's demo - 'cause I guess it's me and folks older than me, and this is the first time I actually have NOT purchased a physical copy of one of her CDs (of course, it's been a dog's age since there was a new one), but did the iTunes thing. I got a digital copy of the CD booklet, a bunch of bonus tracks, and am quite pleased with the money I spent for it. I love the freedom I've had to make a cd copy for my car, download it to my two iPods and my Mac, and take it everywhere. Are you listening Annie??

   Permalink posted 01/17/2008
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   humanfollicle says

   Annie Lennox never alienated ME, ever. I guess I'm a real fan.

   And no matter what you've been led to believe or have "settled" for in your life, the sound quality of mp3s, even 320K and above SUCKS. Many people of the age group to be hardcore Annie fans know this.

   Turning a wave file into an mp3 is a process of compression that literally "throws away" up to 80% of the original signal. You can't do this and retain the full quality of the original recording, sorry.

   What you hear in an mp3 is the SURFACE of the audio wave; low-level details are simply discarded by the compression algorithm.

   The digital music world has descended back to the quality level of an old transistor radio, albeit in a more polite form that SEEMS to sound OK.

   Pay no attention to that Man Behind The Curtain. Real music exists in the studio, on the stage, and in full-quality recordings played back on quality amps and speakers.

   Permalink posted 11/22/2008