For the past couple of months, it was widely rumoured that Amerie had left Columbia and signed a new record deal with Def Jam (whose roster includes big names such as Rihanna, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson). Now it's official: The 1 Thing hitmaker has parted ways with Columbia Records and inked a deal with Def Jam, the company that secured the massive track Umbrella for Rihanna last year (07), catapulting her to global fame. The singer has been recording her fourth album and has gone into the studio with Pharrell Williams amongst one of the many producers she has crafted for the upcoming project. When the 28-year-old attended In Touch Weekly's Summer Stars party last month, she said that she would be taking more of a backseat in writing on this album than on her previous album and that she may very well be participating in just the co-writing side. I'm glad she's no longer with Columbia. I mean there's only one artist that Columbia cares about and that's You-Know-Who. It will certainly take some wizardry magic to get that label to give other artists some proper promo. I don't even know why they're wasting people's time giving Kelly Rowland another album - at least Amerie did the decent thing by breaking away (reportedly, she's been trying to get off Columbia for some time now). Good for her. I hope they do right by her. Because I Love It which was released in Europe and not Stateside, was hot. Matter of fact, it was one of my favourite albums of 2006.
For the past couple of months, it was widely rumoured that Amerie had left Columbia and signed a new record deal with Def Jam (whose roster includes big names such as Rihanna, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson). Now it's official: The 1 Thing hitmaker has parted ways with Columbia Records and inked a deal with Def Jam, the company that secured the massive track Umbrella for Rihanna last year (07), catapulting her to global fame. The singer has been recording her fourth album and has gone into the studio with Pharrell Williams amongst one of the many producers she has crafted for the upcoming project. When the 28-year-old attended In Touch Weekly's Summer Stars party last month, she said that she would be taking more of a backseat in writing on this album than on her previous album and that she may very well be participating in just the co-writing side. I'm glad she's no longer with Columbia. I mean there's only one artist that Columbia cares about and that's You-Know-Who. It will certainly take some wizardry magic to get that label to give other artists some proper promo. I don't even know why they're wasting people's time giving Kelly Rowland another album - at least Amerie did the decent thing by breaking away (reportedly, she's been trying to get off Columbia for some time now). Good for her. I hope they do right by her. Because I Love It which was released in Europe and not Stateside, was hot. Matter of fact, it was one of my favourite albums of 2006.
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