base talk Best label changes?

[Virgos Groove]

Usually, we tend to talk about careers that went down after a label change, but what are the label changes that made a career thrive?

 

[Alex]

the only one i can recently think of is BIA moving from RCA / Pharrell’s record label to Epic Records. Since then she’s actually charted on the hot 100, collaborated with Nicki Minaj and J Cole and more than 200 people know her on the internet! 

[The Next Day]

Muse leaving Maverick cause they refused to release their magnum opus Origin Of Symmetry in the US

 

Kylie changing to Deconstruction to release two of her best albums ever in the 90s and then changing to Parlophone with Light Years to start her second imperial phase

[thatsmydemi]

Didn't Miley and Selena release Bangerz and Revival after they changed their labels? I'd say those two. 

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

9 minutes ago, The Next Day said:

Kylie changing to Deconstruction to release two of her best albums ever in the 90s and then changing to Parlophone with Light Years to start her second imperial phase

 

4 minutes ago, thatsmydemi said:

Didn't Miley and Selena release Bangerz and Revival after they changed their labels? I'd say those two. 

These. All 3 artists took on a image they wanted to take, made music they wanted to make the way they wanted to make it, and saw their biggest commercial and critical successes post-label change, so that's a win in my books.

[Virgos Groove]

16 minutes ago, The Next Day said:

Kylie changing to Deconstruction to release two of her best albums ever in the 90s and then changing to Parlophone with Light Years to start her second imperial phase

Don't forget the change from Parloflop to BMG in 2017.

 

Mid-2010s: Flop, can't sell singles nor albums, panned, lost the #1 spot to a live album, relegated to doing Xmas albums

2020s: Critically appraised, album-seller, defeated the UK's top girl group to the #1 spot, acclaimed by the new generation of artists, Disco scores over 170M Spotify streams

 

Edited May 24, 2022 by ATWK

[Totami Legend]

I wish I could say Mariah but she did Glitter and Charmy under new labels

[Illuminati]

Ga              Ga Def Jam -> Interscope

[bestfiction]

Def Kylie

Taylor from Big Machine to Republic is an another obvious one

[zach]

When JLo moved from Epic to Island. Her career was dead on Epic and then On the Floor happened, whew! But then she moved to Capitol and killed it again

[Virgos Groove]

44 minutes ago, Totami Legend said:

I wish I could say Mariah but she did Glitter and Charmy under new labels

Charmbracelet walked so Mimi could run.

 

[Totami Legend]

49 minutes ago, ATWK said:

Charmbracelet walked so Mimi could run.

 

I love the album but It was a "flop" yeah 

 

[KOMH]

Big Machine -> Republic 

[feelslikeadream]

Mariah is still a correct answer. Virgin paid HER $28 million in 2002 to end her contract early. A few years later, she released one of the biggest albums of all time.

 

[Rev8]

Tinashe going from RCA to Independent ( ) and getting the most cash in a year, she has ever seen

 

also yea, Miley and Selena leaving Hollywood records really did wonders for em

[livelikemusic]

Janet going to A&M to Virgin.First for $40M and then for $80M. Whew. If only they had remained loyal to her in the end.