Janet Jackson has left her record label, Island Def Jam, after releasing only one album. “We didn’t get the support from the record company,” Jackson producer Rodney Jerkins told Rap-Up.com. “She felt like it wasn’t pushed. I felt like it wasn’t pushed correctly. She just didn’t get her just due as an artist of that magnitude.”
While her concerts are still successful (s&m segments can’t hurt), Jackson’s recording career has been nosediving since her “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004. Jackson left Virgin Records, her label since 1993, little over a year ago after the failure of her attempted comeback album, 2006′s 20 Y.O. Her IDJ debut, Discipline, hit #1 on the charts this year, but the singles flopped loudly. Thanks to her continued live draw, it seems likely she might sign with a deal similar to Madonna‘s with her concert promoters at LiveNation (Jackson’s Rock Witchu tour continues through October). Judging from her brief tenure with IDJ, record labels might not be willing to take her on.
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