Thanks to one of our readers for the comment:
liddy says:
She’s OFFICIALLY not with Columbia Nashville. This from OK…”
UPDATE: When OK! called Columbia Nashville, the label which released Jess’s country album, a telephone operator told us that Jessica Simpson has now “come off the label”. We’re waiting for further comment.”
http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/13193
So glad that Country Music Tattle Tale was the FIRST to be able to bring you this news! We finally got to something first! Thanks again to our reader for sending us the email yesterday with the heads up. We have the BEST readers.
ANOTHER UPDATE: US Magazine has everything figured out:
The singer, 28, is no longer with the Sony Nashville label, her rep confirms to Usmagazine.com. The singer’s rep tells Us, “She was on loan to Sony Nashville for her country album.”
Simpson, who has released pop albums on the Epic label, “is and has always been an Epic artist,” her rep adds. “She continues to be on Epic’s label.”
The Boot makes some great points:
However, Simpson said in numerous interviews last year that her crossover to country was indeed permanent. She even said that if Epic would not support her release of a second country album, she’d take matters into her own hands.
“Then I’m going to pay for it myself,” she told Nashville’s Tennessean newspaper. “I’m not giving up, and I’m going to make country music … It’s a spiritual thing for me, like I know God has a plan and a purpose.”
Simpson’s first and only country album, ‘Do You Know,’ debuted at No. 1 on the country charts but has sold only around 170,000 copies since its release last September.
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Glad that you brought this first! Some blogger sites are claiming that they did, when its simply not true. lame.
Thanks Ashlee! We moved the blog up in our posting due to it’s popularity today. The first post about Jessica being dropped was actually posted last night around 9 pm est. Not this morning around 8am est. I think it’s throwing a few people since it was bumped up on our website. Thanks again!
I’m not gonna lie… Im excited about this. Do we know what date she was actually dropped. Could it still have been when she was with RF and that’s why she was acting so overly dramatic?
Narc is saying they dropped her weeks ago but he also has a quote from someone who’s allegedly her publicist saying Jessica’s still with Epic, just not the Nashville division of the label. I think it’s true that Columbia Nashville dropped her but it seems the spin’s going to be she hasn’t totally lost her record deal. I’d bet on a People.com damage control article soon. Either way it’d be great if this country music nightmare were over.
I wonder who this new signee Josh Thompson is for Columbia Nashville. It’s good to see an unknown get a chance. That’s always been my problem with Jessica doing country: she’s an average talent at best with a bad work ethic but she knows how to work the tabloids which is why she keeps getting chances. It isn’t fair for her to take up space at a Nashville label when there are so many real talents waiting in the wings.
Nice job getting the scoop CMTT!
Ignore the SImpson spin. She only switched from Columbia to Epic in 2006, and released only one album on that label – her previous low-seller, which didn’t even move 300,000 copies (although that sounds pretty good compared to “Do You Know.”)
She’s been dropped. Repeat it, slowly: She’s. Been. Dropped.
I’m actually really interested to see how they spin this. You know her dad is already working some sort of article in People or UsWeekly to get the “exclusive” (paid for) story. She better not blame anybody but herself, not her label, not her writers (she had good writers), not any other artists (ahem Carrie, they tried that once before about the CMA’s and FAILED).
I gotta say i’m happy she got dropped, I think their are way more talented country artists than her that are more deserving of the spot. If she worked a little harder maybe I wouldn’t feel that way but I just don’t think she was serious about it. So whats the scoop on this new artist?
[...] gotta feel bad for her. Apparantly country music is not her fortay. A reader has alerted the blog Country Music Tattle Tale that Jessica Simpson’s name and information no longer appear on either the Columbia Nashville [...]
http://www.myspace.com/joshthompsonfans to hear about Josh Thompson…signed with Sony…. They call him a modern man in black.
I am so lovin how they are saying ‘Jessica was on loan”…WTH does that mean? It makes it seem like Jessica was doing a favor for Epic…Cha right….People aren’t stupid…We all know who decided when the artist is done making records…It’s the label…
Totally agree with you Tawny, the “on loan” comment was totally lame. They are making it sound like it was some sort of honor for Jessica to do a country album for Sony. Yea not so much based on the sales huh? So does anyone think we will get some sort of explanation/ statement from Jess or her dad about this, they’ve been pretty quiet!! So does this mean she is done with country and going back to pop. Didn’t she say that she was committed to country music and will only put out country records? Guess times are a changin.
Pay no attention to what they said, but pay attention to what her people DIDN’T say. They DIDN’T say “she was not dropped by Columbia Nashville.”
“On loan” is a contract, too. The story is not about what kind of contract she had, but about who terminated it, and why.
And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?
Another way to say “on loan” is to say she was “on probation” with Columbia Nashville. Like the label wouldn’t have wanted her to stick around if she had been any good. A lot of people have a “probationary period” when they start with a new company. If the company doesn’t like your work, it’s easier to let you go that way. Sounds like that’s what happened with Jessica.