Home

[Lazarus]

OCEAN BOTTOM

In retrospect, Frank Ocean may be second-guessing his bold move of self-releasing Blonde immediately after fulfilling his Def Jam contract with the visual album Endless.

It turns out that no label would agree to handle the physical version of Blonde that Ocean had planned to release a week after the initial digital release, the reasoning being that doing so would send a bad signal to other artists.

Nor, for the same reason, did any label want rights for distribution to all physical and digital platforms worldwide. In fact, manager Mark Gillespie was turned down by all other labels that he approached.

Marketing, as well as distribution, is a needed component, but to quote one label head, ?We are not doing second-week releases.?

The album has now come and gone, and rights owners are using Ocean?s failed DIY experiment as a case study illustrating why artists still need record companies.

[XXX.]

That's what his pretentious ass gets.

No hits.  No sales.  No Grammys.   

[LiiVE]

Lol I love frank but yeah he derssrved this.  Hehe

[Zankou.]

Fckin KII!

[FRANCE]

That's what his pretentious ass gets.

No hits.  No sales.  No Grammys.   

!!!

He can fade right bk into oblivion.

[Nine]

Eek.

He's done.

[Ｂｏｏｍｚ]

FUCKING DEAD

Sad to see King go out like this

But the album was horr'
So...

[Jon]

lol good

[MAY]

The way this backfired on him

[XXX.]

FUCKING DEAD

Said to see King go out like this

But the album was horr'
So...

[MAY]

I love the album tho

[♛MANNY♛]

kiiiii

[Zankou.]

I love the album tho

b

[Ｂｏｏｍｚ]

v

How to confirm its terribleness

[b7]

Doubtful

He probably just asked for more control in negotiations