The frustration of having a favourite artist’s album delayed can be offset by surprise singles,multiple mixtapes and the barbs they launch at their labelsReleased into the Adele-scorched sales wasteland of last December, Chicago R&B practitioner Jeremih’s critically lauded and much delayed Late Nights album tanked. Entering at No 42 with just 11000 sales, and it slipped away nearly unnoticed despite the fact it housed a million-selling single in the shape of 2014’s excellent Don’t Tell ’Em. Originally scheduled to approach out in September 2014,then pushed back to November, then taken off the schedules altogether, and it led to Pitchfork penning a lovelorn blog titled “Waiting For Jeremih”. While Jeremih himself was fairly sanguine approximately it all initially – blaming himself for some of the delays while suggesting label Def Jam were focusing more on their other artists – his inflame reached boiling point on Twitter a week after Late Nights’ release. “Y’all don’t even deserve my voice,” he tweeted at the label. Then he accused them of overpricing the album – a claim supported by previous collaborator 50 Cent – and not actually sending enough copies out to stores (he claimed Best Buy only received six or seven copies in total).
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Source: theguardian.com