My manager Gita and I were talking about how this was something we’d seen in comments a lot on Twitter and Instagram and just how it was not right. Whose idea was it to release re-recorded versions of the album, and when did the process begin? But my fans let me know and it was just frustrating to see their frustrations and to know that something they should easily have access to wasn’t available to them. That’s how I realized it was a thing, too! I didn’t know because it’s not like I’m monitoring to make sure my stuff is still up, that’d be weird. It definitely was, because I remember there being a huge uproar among your fanbase on social media when the albums were first pulled. I think it might’ve been for a few months, though. Nothing was ever really said to me, it just suddenly wasn’t on Spotify or iTunes anymore. To listen to my first two albums, people have to find it on YouTube or find physical copies. So the long and short of it is that there was just no one inside fighting for you?Įxactly. That was really weird for me, especially because I put out my first album when I was 13 in 2004. I wanted my music to be out there because if people were just discovering me for the first time, it looked like I started my career in 2016 with Mad Love. As far as I know, nobody’s music from that label is available on streaming, which includes Aaliyah‘s last two albums.
I wish I had a better reason for the first two albums not being available, but I think the simplest answer is that my former label just didn’t make a deal with the streaming platforms. Could you tell me in your words what exactly went down and why your first two albums were unavailable?
There have been plenty of reports over the years about the dispute between you and your former label. After The High Road, Jojo wouldn’t release another studio album for 10 years until Mad Love in 2016, after successfully severing ties with her old label. As is too often the case when an artist disappears for no apparent reason, it was eventually revealed that Jojo was embroiled in a nasty years-long battle with her label, Blackground Records, that culminated with her suing them in 2013 to get out of her contract after endless conflicts, including her alleging the label forced her to lose weight by withholding the release of her music.
JOJO THE HIGH ROAD SONGS SERIES
In fact, JoJo had continued to release music independently through a series of mixtapes, YouTube covers, and demos that her cult-like fanbase devoured but flew mostly under the mainstream radar. After her debut album JoJo went multi-platinum in 2004 when she was only 13, she followed it up with The High Road in 2006 and another smash hit in the single “Too Little, Too Late,” cementing her status as the pop laureate of teenage heartache.Īnd then, suddenly, JoJo fell off the radar.īut it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying. If anyone thought she would be another casualty in an oversaturated pop market (RIP, Willa Ford), JoJo managed to prove the naysayers wrong time and time again. JoJo, with her soulful vocals and wide-eyed appeal, seemed poised for pop superstardom from the moment she released her #1 hit “Leave (Get Out)” and caused every teenage girl (plus me) to dump our imaginary no-good boyfriends. Even in the early ‘00s, when the next Britney Spears was seemingly popping up by the dozen, there was always something special about the pop singer. The album was later certified gold, selling over three million copies worldwide to date.Īshley Parker Angel’s Soundtrack to Your Life includes RIAA-Gold certified hit “Let U Go”, which peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Soundtrack to Your Life.” The offering debuted #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Billboard’s review called it “great melodic rock … falling somewhere between the earnest balladeering of the Goo Goo Dolls and the driving rock of the All American Rejects.You remember JoJo. With her second studio album The High Road, JoJo spawned her first top-five Billboard Hot 100 and RIAA-Platinum certified hit “Too Little Too Late,” peaking at #3. The album also includes the RIAA-Gold certified hit single “Baby It’s You.” JoJo’s self-titled album includes her debut RIAA-Gold certified anthemic breakup single “Leave (Get Out)” which peaked atop the US Billboard Pop songs chart and at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. This coupling of re-releases includes RIAA Platinum JoJo, RIAA Gold The High Road and Soundtrack To Your Life. Blackground Records 2.0 re-releases the catalogue of multi-platinum singer-songwriter JoJo and singer-songwriter and actor Ashley Parker Angel via EMPIRE, following Tank’s re-release last Friday.
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