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Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

krazygemini1980 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:20:14 EST

The Album is not a FLOP as many are compelled to Call it.. It has gone Platium in the US as of December 07, (yes look it up if you wish on the RIAA website) Also the album world wide has sold 2 million plus. Many Artist dont hit gold, or near platinum. Yes Kelly Clarksons 3rd Album was not a commercially popular in the US but WE all know She can sing!! She has that voice of gold that many can not touch or come close to.. So Kelly will make another album, and Clive Davis will like it, love it, promote it.. You have to say that I am sure CLive and the Label are still Happy that even though they didnt back up Kelly Clarkson Album (the way the should have) the Album has done quite well.... And I love How I feel also so I hope they reconsider and make that a single, i mean come on Clive.. We all know Pinks album didnt hit smashing numbers until She released "U and Ur hand".. which was months after the album was released!!! Any who.. Kelly Clarkson ROCKS!!!

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Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

sfulghum — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:24:46 EST

Kelly Clarkson's album isn't the only one that BMG has not promoted. Nearly all of their recent releases have gone unpromoted. A number of albums in the last few months of last year did not do nearly as well as they might have had BMG promoted them properly and that included not sending review copies to writers even after they had been promised.

sfulghum

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

Varina — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:03:35 EST

I downloaded the album when it first came out, out of curiosity. And when I heard this song, my immediate reaction was: "Why the heck did they release Never Again as the first single? THIS shoulda been the first single!" Glad to see others agree. May the KCE prevail...

Varina

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

rhythmchyc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:39:11 EST

Ehh, she's on tour with Reba. It ain't the end of the world.

rhythmchyc

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

HONEYBFLY — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:23:26 EST

@Maura Johnston: And yes, I believe they tried releasing 'Sober' (didn't crack the top 50 on Billboard Hot 100) and I vaguely recall her trying to work a miserable track called 'Don't Waste Your Time'.

I didn't understand the whole dilemma of KC vs. RCA...the first time most of us heard 'Never Again' I think we knew where this album was headed (i.e. the toilet). Was KC so stubborn that RCA couldn't have done a bit of market research and shown her this simple fact??

HONEYBFLY

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

HONEYBFLY — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:19:54 EST

I just wish all these pop stars wanting to sustain in the music industry over periods of time would LEARN from mistakes like this....it's not like KC is the first person who tried to capitalize on past successes to try and sell the public on a passion project, only to see numbers significantly less than before. Hell, she's not even the first one this decade...(i.e. Mariah and 'Glitter', Xtina with 'Back to Basics' etc etc)

Again, it's the age-old 'Artistry vs. Commerce' dilemma...you can't always have it both ways, kids!!

HONEYBFLY

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

Maura Johnston — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:01:01 EST

there was a second single?

check out these stats from ken barnes' idol blog after the 2/6 soundscans came out:
"And Kelly's ineligible-for-the-chart Breakaway was the best-selling off-chart Idol album at 3,600 copies, down from 3,700, for a total of 5.95 million. My December sold 1,800, down from 2,000, to total 749,000."

[blogs.usatoday.com]

Maura Johnston

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

Al Shipley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:56:30 EST

It's beyond idiotic for them to rally around "saving" an album 8 months after its troubled release, and cry about there not being another single when even the 2nd single didn't get a video. But then, fanclubs are nothing if not excuses for quixotic write-in campaigns, and "How I Feel" was always one of my favorite tracks on the album, so I can't fault their song choice.

Al Shipley

Kelly Clarkson Fans Fight Clive Davis With Rudimentary Understanding Of Editing Software

Chris Molanphy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:24:22 EST

My music-biz-writer friend and I were recently discussing the '07 Clarkson debacle and agreed that, while Clive was sadly right about the album needing a few songs-for-hire, he needlessly made the album's failure a fait accompli by not even trying to half-heartedly promote its better songs. It's like he couldn't prove his point by letting the album sell only one-third of its predecessor, so he needed to make sure it only sold one-sixth.

Clarkson comes out of the whole thing looking a little naïve and overestimating her talents a bit; Davis comes off looking like a guy with industry smarts who's also a total dick.

Chris Molanphy