In reply to Chileplease (the first and only bih).

It does not matter if an artist sells enough records to meet your expectations. Record labels now operate with minimum investment in the artist and get a hefty profit in return from the distribution fees. Jennifer Lopez is not selling and fake articles about her being dropped is not being published. For example with Mariah, Mariah paid for the track "I Don't" to get recorded, paid YG, and paid for the video. The record label "released" the song mostly digitally and raked in mostly all of the profits. How exactly is a record label losing with Mariah?