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Should Interscope leave the Idol franchise alone?
Since Season 10 of American Idol, Interscope has been the main label in charge. But has it been a bad decision?
Let's take a look at the receipts:
- Pia Toscano, the shocking elimination of Season 10 was signed 3 months after her elimination. She got a single release - a song that pretty much sounded very 2006/2007 and then she got dropped from the label a year later without her debut album ever being released.
- Haley Reinhart was slightly luckier and actually got an album release and actually got some of her songs heard in movies. But they dropped her too.
- Jessica Sanchez's debut single "tonight" f. Ne-Yo hasn't been sent out to radio despite it being the most radio friendly and the most current of all the artists so far.
- Carly Rae Jepsen from the Canadian Idol side of the franchise was signed after Call Me Maybe took off - but they chose This Kiss as a single, which is one of the weakest tracks on the album and all the promo they gave her didn't pay off. And they haven't done **** for Tonight I'm Getting Over You
Lastly, Jimmy Iovine's presence on American Idol is very robotic and so obviously scripted. Even Nicki Minaj told one of the contestants not to listen to him and Macklemore has a song about him.
Should Interscope leave the Idol franchise alone?
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