Dangerous Incorporated
10-18-2006, 09:47 AM
Janet Jackson’s Boyfriend Blames Label
Janet Jackson's lover has blamed record bosses for her new album being a
flop.
Music producer Jermaine Dupri has threatened to resign as president of
Virgin Records' urban division because he claims label chairman Jason Flom
has failed to promote Janet's LP '20 Y.O.'.
A source revealed to the New York Daily News newspaper: "Jermaine blames
Virgin for not getting the album enough airplay and not working it."
Jermaine is desperate to boost record sales and is trying to persuade Mariah
Carey to record a duet with Janet on a track that would be added to a new
version of the disc.
It is estimated that there are still 200,000 unsold copies of the first
batch.
A source close to Flom has hit back at Jermaine's claims, saying: "Jason
wants the CD to be a hit as much as anyone. But Janet just didn't have the
goods."
Sales of '20 Y.O.' dropped by 74 per cent in the second week of its release
and it fell from number two to number nine on the Nielsen SoundScan chart.
Jermaine was also furious with the way Virgin record bosses handled Janet's
last album, 'Damita Jo'.
He fumed: "They just didn't push the project."
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Janet Jackson's lover has blamed record bosses for her new album being a
flop.
Music producer Jermaine Dupri has threatened to resign as president of
Virgin Records' urban division because he claims label chairman Jason Flom
has failed to promote Janet's LP '20 Y.O.'.
A source revealed to the New York Daily News newspaper: "Jermaine blames
Virgin for not getting the album enough airplay and not working it."
Jermaine is desperate to boost record sales and is trying to persuade Mariah
Carey to record a duet with Janet on a track that would be added to a new
version of the disc.
It is estimated that there are still 200,000 unsold copies of the first
batch.
A source close to Flom has hit back at Jermaine's claims, saying: "Jason
wants the CD to be a hit as much as anyone. But Janet just didn't have the
goods."
Sales of '20 Y.O.' dropped by 74 per cent in the second week of its release
and it fell from number two to number nine on the Nielsen SoundScan chart.
Jermaine was also furious with the way Virgin record bosses handled Janet's
last album, 'Damita Jo'.
He fumed: "They just didn't push the project."
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1723/janetjackson1it0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)