@ZANIA

IKR on all points!

The new music industry has no patients for anything that is not POP oriented!! Once VIACOM purchased MTV, VH1, and BET it began segmenting music and casting certain forms of music down. Jazz & R&B are no longer considered important art forms. I never thought I would live to see the day when something like this would happened.

If you notice what has happened in recent years the most promoted artists are either POP or POP "HYBRIDS": Taylor Swift Pop/Country, Adele Pop/Blue-Eyed Soul, Rihanna Pop/R&B, Lady Gaga (new queen of pop, so they say), Justin Bieber (new king of pop, so they say) etc.!

As for Chris and promotionals...LOL look how well he is doing without them? JHud has been on every program from Mane to Mexico and she has not surpassed him in sells. JLO is a judge on American Idol and has been all over promoting her CD yet its slated to only say 60 - 80k in its 1st week!?!? The same can be said about quite a few individual arists and groups! I would love to see Chris do more TV promos but if its just going to be torturous and only done to bring up that old bullsh** issue then I hope he just continues on this path!!

*Didn't mean for this post to be so long! :-)