The media really caused the contraversy.. not Kelly, not RCA..
It's about time a magazine posted rel information that explains such things as the KElly-Clive battle, becuase it's not just Kelly-Clive, alot of artists are going through the same thing with the record labels. There's debats, even arguements over the albums, but that's with ANY album, even top selling ones. If there were no arguements between artists and the labels, the albums would basically suck. opposing views often add alot to a record.. you get what the artist wants mixed with what the label knows will sell and get alot of play.
unfortunatly, people don't read articles about the industry itself, so when they see articles about their fav artist and the problems with record sales, they come up with all kinds of excuses and stories for it, the media jumps in, blows it all out of proportion, and boom, you have what KElly is going through with My December.
My December is not doing bad, not doing as good as Breakaway 3 years ago, but it's not doing bad, it didn't have any problems or less promotion than any other album out. The debate over Kelly vs. Hannah Montana too, Hannah Montana is alot newer, and alot younger audience, there's a tv show to debut the ongs on, of course people will run to grab it for their kids who watch the show. Back in the late 60's, a tv show was made called the monkees, they became a real band, they often outsold the Beatles, their third album blew Sgt Pepper off the charts, why? because every week, peopel tuned into their tv show to hear all the songs, they didn't need album promotion, they had it weekly in tv format.
PArtridge family had multiplatinum albums because, people heard the songs on tv every week, followed the tv show.. Jackson-5 was very simular, they had their own tv variety show, and sat morning cartoon.. that definatly put them on top. So Hannah Montana had a huge advantage over My December that way, if there wasn't a tv show, and Miley Cyrus released an album as herself, it msot lilely would have gone un-noticed, and MY December would have had no competition.
