Jordin Sparks, our youngest Idol ever, has signed with Clive, the oldest record exec ever. She has jumped aboard the Good Ship Lollycock (GSL) and trusted Dr. Evil with her career. Ok, Clive, put up or shut up. Of course, this isn't really big news, because it's what you win for being voted as the American Idol.
Jordin is the first artist to sign with the Zomba Label Group — all past “Idol” winners and runners-up have signed with the RCA Label Group’s J (Fantasia, Ruben Studdard), Arista (Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks) or RCA (Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry, Clay Aiken) labels.
The Zomba Label Group consists of record labels Jive, LaFace, Volcano, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo Yo Soul. These labels represent a varied group of artists including Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly, Usher, Tool, Ciara, Chris Brown, Pink, Britney Spears, OutKast, Kirk Franklin, Three Days Grace, 311, Nick Lachey, T-Pain, Byron Cage, Bullet For My Valentine, Buddy Guy, Living Things, Anthony Hamilton, Donnie McClurkin, John P. Kee, Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker, Marvin Sapp, Kelly Price, J. Moss and Backstreet Boys.
Jive is a division of the Zomba Label Group which is itself a part BMG U.S. (part of Sony/BMG). Clive Davis is the head of BMG U.S. and will also help mentor Jordin’s career.
First single, Tattoo, is to be released August 27. It's August 19th right now. I am just now hearing about this. Strike 1 to the Marketing Dept at GSL. Where's the buzz? And I'm not talking about Clive's pacemaker. "Tattoo" was co-written by the creator of James Blunt's smash hit "Beautiful". You know that song got banned in UK for overplay, right??? First time I've ever heard of people boycotting a song because it was too popular. Too bad no one though of that when frickin' Celine Dion Titanic song was everywhere.
Good Luck Jordin at Jive Records. I hope Tattoo rocks the house. But most importantly, I hope this song doesn't sound like a Hilary Duff reject. The whole cd drops in November.
ColeyB
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