Matt Cardle (Winner of the X Factor in 2010) has been dropped by Sony Music’s Columbia records. Cardle wasnt able to perform as well as Columbia were hoping!
Cardle hasn’t given up hope of a pop career yet though, tweeting: ‘I have parted ways with columbia records, we were heading in different directions, big news coming soon…. so excited! : ) love you all xx’.
Although Cardle’s winner’s single When We Collide made it to No.1, his next release Starlight clocked in at a disappointing No.185 and his final effort Amazing charted at No.84.
Matt why not just start create your own music and distributing it via RouteNote. Im sure you will make a lot more money!
Labrint is a new up and coming sonwriter in the UK who has been growing at a rapid pace. Labrint has just released his feel good and chart friendly sing “Let The Sun Shine” which is being distributed by none other than Simon Cowell’s record label SYCO. Labrinth is currently working on his full album that you can expect later this year.
The song comes along with a very cool viral video that is getting a steady buzz on YouTube. Check it out below.
In a press release last week, Sony BMG has revealed a joint venture between themselves and Simon Cowell’s SYCO media group . This newly created entity will own all of the SYCO TV and media rights to the X-Factor and [insert country here]‘s Got Talent, as well as Cowell’s hit making cash-cow pop stars, including Susan Boyle and Leona Lewis.
As the first project under the new Syco banner, Fox Television announced (on January 11th) that it will launch the U.S. version of the worldwide hit TV show, The X Factor, in the fall of 2011. Cowell will serve as both executive producer and judge on the U.S. version of the show.
In the brief years since moving out of his mum and dad’s house aged 30, Cowell has worked with artists selling more than 180 million albums and delivered more than 150 No.1 records. In 2009, Cowell was named No. 1 in Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Most Powerful in Reality TV and one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top Entertainers of the Year, and has one of the most powerful and influential figures in pop music, having fired literally hundreds of young hopefuls up the pop charts with the perfect storm of his TV format and Sony label tie-in.
The new company consolidates the close relationship between Cowell and Sony, and will doubtless mean more years of gushing, well meaning, easily herded young vocalists being fired out of the high-powered marketing cannon into our faces.
Yesterday I was watching the X Factor here in the UK and was just thinking how many artists and which artists are actually signed up to Simon Cowell’s record label. Below is the list of artists under the Syco Music label on Last.fm. There are so many here that I never thought would actually have been under Syco Music. However, I forgot that Syco is under Sony Music and most of these artists in the early days were just pushed under Syco Music before Simon Cowell actually started doing TV shows as his A&R instead of actually getting off his ass and finding the artists.
I was sitting in my living this evening watching Britain’s Got Talent Final and really wondered what Simon Cowell actually owns and how much his companies make. Well I thought I would write a quick article and run through the basics of the Cowell empire.
Simon founded a record label and television company Syco which encompasses music, film and television. Within these companies they operate television shows such as The X Factor, Britains Got Talent, American Inventor, America’s Got Talent and Grease is the Word.
Cowell claims Syco accounted for approximately 40% of Sony Music Entertainment profit in 2006, despite only employing 14 people. By 2008, it was believed that Syco accounted for as much as 70% of Sony profits. In 2008 Sony music entertainment forecasted a net profit of $1.5 billion, thus making Simon Cowell’s companies estimated at $1.05 billion if they indeed did 70% of the profits.
I was sitting in my living this evening watching Britain’s Got Talent Final and really wondered what Simon Cowell actually owns and how much his companies make. Well I thought I would write a quick article and run through the basics of the Cowell empire.