Afterglow Posted October 1 Posted October 1 (edited) What's happened to Disney's once prolific Hollywood Records? After struggling in the 90's they were pulled out of bankruptcy by Hilary Duffs sophomore album "Metamorphosis" in the 00's. After that success, they went on to create multiple Disney pop girl/actress clones to rousing success with Demi, Selena, Miley, Raven, Sabrina, Aly&AJ, Lindsay (to an extent with the Teenaged Drama Queen soundtrack) and even had some major pop boys (Jesse McCartney, Jonas Brothers). Their current lineup is: Adrian Lyles Almost Monday Andy Grammer Freya Skye Area 21 JoyWave Kenzie Little Image New Hope Sofia Carson TINI Queen A quick look, and most these artists seem to have middling success at the moment or even haven't released anything Do you live for any of those artists? What happened to the Disney turned pop-girl formula? I remember a time when they had at least 4 major artists at a time. Are they over? Edited October 1 by Afterglow 2
Popular Post Schami66 Posted October 1 Popular Post Posted October 1 23 minutes ago, Afterglow said: Their current lineup is: Adrian Lyles Almost Monday Andy Grammer Freya Skye Area 21 JoyWave Kenzie Little Image New Hope Sofia Carson TINI Queen All these fictional people no ones ever heard of and then BOOM... Queen. I'm screaming. 23
Afterglow Posted October 1 Author Posted October 1 2 minutes ago, Schami66 said: All these fictional people no ones ever heard of and then BOOM... Queen. I'm screaming. I assume Queen is keeping them afloat at this point 1 1
jeffersonairplanes19 Posted October 1 Posted October 1 (edited) Hollywood records has literally never been a good label most of the success they have had has been by chance and from coasting off of people who were already popular like Miley, and hilary. It was literally a dead label before Hilary revived it and even after her success they were very hit or miss with success stories like raven, Vanessa hudgens, and Corbin bleu couldn't get music careers off the ground with Hollywood records, Jesse McCartney's success didn't last that long and neither did Hilary's really. Miley already had chart success with the Hannah Montana soundtrack before she even released her first album as Miley Cyrus so she attached her debut album to the b side of second Hannah soundtrack before getting an official Hollywood records album unaffiliated with Hannah Montana. The Jonas brothers were already rising tween stars when they got picked up by Hollywood records and they couldn't make it past 3 albums with them before declining in popularity because Hollywood records doesn't know how to deal with their artists aging. Demi had success with the synergy of camp rock and Sonny with a chance and the Disney channel commercial breaks but you would kinda tell they were running out of steam by the time Selena started making music because it took a couple tries for her to get a number one album and most of her Hollywood records music was being pushed off of name recognition alone and her fans. Most modern Disney stars don't really make music but when they do they usually do it outside of Disney and Hollywood records like Olivia Rodrigo who signed with interscope and Joshua Bassett who signed with Warner music. The way Hollywood records is now is basically what is was pre Hilary. I think the highest charting album they solely released (because Demi's albums post 2013 were all released in collaboration with island records) in the past ten years was sometime last night in 2015 by R5 which was a band that Ross Lynch was the frontman of and it peaked at 6 on the billboard 200. It like many other Hollywood records albums coasted off the popularity of Ross lynch as a teen heartthrob instead of any actually good marketing and business moves Edited October 1 by jeffersonairplanes19 3
Reginald Posted October 1 Posted October 1 Queen singlehandedly keeping an entire label afloat, wow 1
DavidSMateus Posted October 1 Posted October 1 (edited) Joywave are actually good tho Edited October 1 by DavidSMateus 1
AvadaKedavra Posted October 1 Posted October 1 I want them to release those vaults with the unreleased of Early Miley,Selena,Hilary,Vanessa Hudgens,Jesse Mcrtney,Aly Aj and more 1 1
gimmelaugh Posted October 1 Posted October 1 Sofia Carson needs to get out of there and sign with a better label that will promote her better, she's too talented for this!!!
Minto Posted October 2 Posted October 2 tell me you love me was dems last album on there she really left them with a smash and a successful tour 1
Galah Posted October 2 Posted October 2 Olivia could have saved them, but she was too smart to release anything on that horrible label. Perhaps one of these girlies will pull a Sabrina Carpenter and randomly smash a decade from now. Who knows?
BrokenMachine Posted October 2 Posted October 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, BrattyBottom said: Demi Lovato bankrupted them Fake news. She was the one keeping them afloat when Miley and Selena left Edited October 2 by BrokenMachine 1
BrattyBottom Posted October 2 Posted October 2 6 minutes ago, BrokenMachine said: Fake news. She was the one keeping them afloat when Miley and Selena left She sold 13 copies and sold only 24% capacity venues. She was actively destroying them. 3
katysuxx Posted October 2 Posted October 2 (edited) Hollywood Records has always been a flop label created to keep control over ex acts who have any potential and influence. It's a way for Disney to extend control over their potential ex acts. Edited October 2 by katysuxx 1 1
aotwbys Posted October 2 Posted October 2 Hollywood Records is kind of a joke and way too closely connected with the Disney brand for big kids or adults to enjoy
alestevens Posted October 2 Posted October 2 They are a terrible label. Their only successful acts currently are Queen (obviously not thanks to them) and TINI (thanks to the Sony Music Latin joint promotion, not them)
chiliam Posted October 2 Posted October 2 57 minutes ago, alestevens said: They are a terrible label. Their only successful acts currently are Queen (obviously not thanks to them) and TINI (thanks to the Sony Music Latin joint promotion, not them) 3 hours ago, Schami66 said: All these fictional people no ones ever heard of and then BOOM... Queen. I'm screaming. wait how the hell Queen end up on this record label ?
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