Although he is making excuses for himself he is kinda right in one aspect.... example...

JILL SCOTT is a legacy act...
JILL has not had a gold album in over 10 years, however, she is able to sell out 5,000 - 15,000 seat venues depending on the city b/c she is a great performer.

Jill Scott is also an actress.

Letoya Luckett is a singer, talk show host for Centric, boutique owner, and actress

Rita Ora and iggy Azaela performers but also make money from modeling.

Rihanna, Beyonce, Usher, Britney and GaGa probably make more from fragrance deals than from album sales this year.

Queen Latifah is a former rapper/ actress and has her own Queen cover girl collection and TV production company

Niki Minaj probably made more from American Idol than actual album sales. She is killin it with her KMART deal and acting gigs too.

Kelly Rowland will make about 3 million from her gig at XFACTOR which will probably be more than from her album sales.

Brandy is a singer, reality star, and actress.

Keyshia COle is starting a shoe line and was able to tour successfully even without a gold CD.

CIARA can still tour and will probably rebuild her touring movement this year.

CIARA also may obtain some endorsement or fragrance deals now that she is with a better team at EPIC.

I get what he is saying but he wouldn't be saying it if he sold some albums.