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Jamelia falls from grace.
After 10 years with Parlophone, the major record company parted ways with Jamelia last week.
We've heard all this before - another big star falling out acrimoniously with her label+?
Well, not quite. Both sides are keen to stress that this was an "amicable" split. In fact, Jamelia has personally written to a string of EMI execs - including Tony Wadsworth, Miles Leonard and others - thanking them for their work for her after the decision was made to part ways.
What went wrong?
Well, the stats aren't great. After shipping 600,000 units of her second album, the follow-up Walk With Me has shipped just 100,000. As Leonard says, it was a tough decision, but one which had to be made. "We had Jamelia for nearly 10 years - that is a long period in any pop artist's career," he says. "We had invested a great deal of money in her over the years. That investment wasn't adding up."
Which kind of makes sense+
Yes, but her manager Jonathan Shalit insists that her last single, Walk With Me, was her first non-Top 10 single out of the past seven. "I am staggered," he says. "EMI have spent so much money helping establish Jamelia - I mean, she is a ...
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