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01/20


TLC's Chilli has offered an update on the album the group began following a wildly successful fan-sponsored Kickstarter campaign.

"We're trying to finish up the album, and after today, [it will be] day in, day out, just getting this album done," Chilli told Billboard.

"I'll just say this: We're bringing back our interludes. We've come up with some really fun, funny stuff for people to enjoy." She wouldn't, however, divulge the album's title or release date. "We finally have a name for it, so we're really happy about that."

Last February TLC raised over $430,000 from fans and enlisted the production talents of Ne-Yo for their upcoming fifth and final studio album.


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...and still no word on the status of De La Soul's kickstarted-funded album?

im curious, how do they get these kickstart albums released? since they had to raise money to make the album im assuming there are no labels interested in them, so what happens next?

TLC assumes all costs associated with delivering the final product to the sponsors. They can do it themselves or hire a third party to oversee distribution and promotion.

Not a fan of this whole crowdfunding of albums thing whether Kickstarter or Pledge Music.

Too many artists take fans' money and give them no or few updates on the progress of the album that fans paid for and delay and delay the release. Would they treat a major label the way they treat their fans? I don't think so.

Because this process is abused so much, I refuse to send any money for any kind of crowd funded album.

I know it may be frustrating for artists not to be able to get a label, but that doesn't excuse the way so many of these crowdfunded things are handled. Fans are being taken for granted and exploited and I don't agree with it at all.

CoolMF said:

Glindathegood said:

Not a fan of this whole crowdfunding of albums thing whether Kickstarter or Pledge Music.

Too many artists take fans' money and give them no or few updates on the progress of the album that fans paid for and delay and delay the release. Would they treat a major label the way they treat their fans? I don't think so.

Because this process is abused so much, I refuse to send any money for any kind of crowd funded album.

I know it may be frustrating for artists not to be able to get a label, but that doesn't excuse the way so many of these crowdfunded things are handled. Fans are being taken for granted and exploited and I don't agree with it at all.

Well my band just did it successfully so, it CAN work! But we had the record in the can already, had copies ready to mail days after the campaign ended. We just needed funds for pressing and a way to get it in peoples' hands.

I haven't heard of that many situations where the band just took peoples' money and never delivered anything. Scott Weiland was on the hook for a bunch of autographed megaphones that people paid $700 each for, at the time of his passing. Who else has been in trouble for this?

Glindathegood said:

Not a fan of this whole crowdfunding of albums thing whether Kickstarter or Pledge Music.

Too many artists take fans' money and give them no or few updates on the progress of the album that fans paid for and delay and delay the release. Would they treat a major label the way they treat their fans? I don't think so.

Because this process is abused so much, I refuse to send any money for any kind of crowd funded album.

I know it may be frustrating for artists not to be able to get a label, but that doesn't excuse the way so many of these crowdfunded things are handled. Fans are being taken for granted and exploited and I don't agree with it at all.

Well I will agree on most of it, they should stay updated or at least stick to the promises at the start, however with the way streaming and digital works for 90% of the artists in the world, getting a nickle a stream is BS, and most of these artists would not get signed or anything at this point, already seeing alot of rock bands jumping on this, though a label like Frontier right now is front and center for them, still many can't get proper payment on their work. Van Hunt, Anna Nalick, Elle Varner and others are lost on labels if they can even get the records released. In a few years when NEW fillms are not in theaters but being streamed, watch actors do the same shit

What about the unreleased Music they left behind in the LaFace vaults? I know it belongs to Face/Reid but why not work a deal with those 2 Rich Bruhs and get some of their old unreleased material released to the Public...

I'm not interested in an album from them either way.

as far as Videos and Concerts, they should get a bunch of Lisa LeftEye Lopez look a like dancers/rappers, the do her parts on the previous rel songs

This cd will be a flop without original producers and left eye. The magic is gone. Great group...but they will never be the same. I still listen to their music on the regular and always will.

jaimestarr79 said:

This cd will be a flop without original producers and left eye.

I don't think they would sell that much even if Left Eye was on it. They're an old group, so they're not likely to get on radio stations that would get them a hit. They've been away too long on top of that. At best, TLC might get airplay on the urban contemporary stations. On the local one, when they do play TLC, it's never songs with a Left Eye rap on it. So she would not make a difference there. As far as the producers, when was the last time Dallas Austin or Babyface had a hit single on the Top 40?

I've said this before: Prince should use this strategy for all of his future albums He would be able to record and release new albums without the help of a major record company...no "middleman" at all....isn't that what he really wants?

missfee said:

I'm not interested in an album from them either way.

..LOL...You know they gotta have some unreleased 90's JAMS....They were at their vocal best back then and Producers vibed with them...I wanna hear what was not released...

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TLC's Next Album Is Comprised of "Old Soul Music," Says Executive Producer

01/16

TLC fans are getting new information about the album that Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas are working on after launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund their final album.

Ron Fair, a well-known music business figure and executive producer of the project, has spilled on the direction the pair are heading in for their fan-funded project.

“It's old soul music. It's '90s throwback music. It's vintage TLC and I can tell you that their vocals sound EXACTLY the way they did the last time you heard them," Fair says in a recent interview on Renman Music & Business Live.

He continues that the ladies are on top of their game. "Their artistic and vocal thing is 100 percent intact," he says. "So this is gonna become a question of what are they talking about, what are the lyrics, what are the beats they've chosen. And I'm very excited for the world to hear.”

While the release is still unknown, the album also will include contributions from longtime collaborator Dallas Austin, who co-wrote their biggest hits including "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg." The set will be TLC's first studio album since the death of founding member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in 2002.



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OldFriends4Sale said:

as far as Videos and Concerts, they should get a bunch of Lisa LeftEye Lopez look a like dancers/rappers, the do her parts on the previous rel songs

TLC have already been touring. They played my city earlier this month with a full band and dancers, with T-Boz and Chilli meeting VIP fans. All around awesome (from what I heard, I couldn't be there).

They didn't perform any new songs though, but I think the crowd was OKAY with that.

This tells you how horrible the music business is. The owners aren't broke.

Why we need Bernie.

Glindathegood said:

Not a fan of this whole crowdfunding of albums thing whether Kickstarter or Pledge Music.

Too many artists take fans' money and give them no or few updates on the progress of the album that fans paid for and delay and delay the release. Would they treat a major label the way they treat their fans? I don't think so.

Because this process is abused so much, I refuse to send any money for any kind of crowd funded album.

I know it may be frustrating for artists not to be able to get a label, but that doesn't excuse the way so many of these crowdfunded things are handled. Fans are being taken for granted and exploited and I don't agree with it at all.

for real, I mean, who wants to crowdfund a shitty album? I mean, who wants to say that they helped fund a piece of shit album?

3rdeyedude said:

Glindathegood said:

Not a fan of this whole crowdfunding of albums thing whether Kickstarter or Pledge Music.

Too many artists take fans' money and give them no or few updates on the progress of the album that fans paid for and delay and delay the release. Would they treat a major label the way they treat their fans? I don't think so.

Because this process is abused so much, I refuse to send any money for any kind of crowd funded album.

I know it may be frustrating for artists not to be able to get a label, but that doesn't excuse the way so many of these crowdfunded things are handled. Fans are being taken for granted and exploited and I don't agree with it at all.

for real, I mean, who wants to crowdfund a shitty album? I mean, who wants to say that they helped fund a piece of shit album?

You have a VERY nasty attitude! Do you have anything good to say about anybody?

Chancellor said:

missfee said:

I'm not interested in an album from them either way.

..LOL...You know they gotta have some unreleased 90's JAMS....They were at their vocal best back then and Producers vibed with them...I wanna hear what was not released...

Well releasing unreleased tracks is one thing, but getting their fans to help pay for an album that will probably turn out to be shitty is another. They should have pulled a Led Zeppelin move and disbanded after Left Eye passed away.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

3rdeyedude said:

for real, I mean, who wants to crowdfund a shitty album? I mean, who wants to say that they helped fund a piece of shit album?

You have a VERY nasty attitude! Do you have anything good to say about anybody?

yikes, please ignore me if you don't mind.......it is bad enough (as others have already stated) that anyone has to actually read any of your comments on this website

MickyDolenz said:

Here are Kickstarter Rules about funding and recourse.

https://www.kickstarter.c...ickstarter

laurarichardson said:

--- Oh the horror of having an RB/Hip Hop act have a record played on an Urban Contempary station😳 You kill me with this nonsense so what if pop stations only want to play the worst RnB artist. G

You sure are negative about nothing. There's no horror. The question is sales and urban contemporary does not generate bigger sales or more popularity, Top 40 airplay does. A Top 40 act also gets more media attention (which is more promotion) than an urban only act. Why do you think people try to crossover? Michael Jackson's Thriller wouldn't have sold anywhere near the amount it did with only the R&B audience. Urban contemporary plays a lot of oldies. They're not primarily focused on new music like the regular R&B stations and Top 40, which is how an act gets a popular hit record, not one that is known to a smaller niche audience. Let's look at the Youtube numbers of music that was released in the last year or so, which is a good indicator of people knowing about a song, since in general albums don't sell the same as in the past as people often download stuff for free.

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Songs primarily on urban contemporary:

Jahiem ~ Back In My Arms 308,808

Vivian Green ~ Get Right Back To My Baby 1,075,373

Jodeci ~ Every Moment 3,816,804

Avery Sunshine ~ Call My Name 867,170

Jill Scott ~ Fools Gold 1,523,620

Charlie Wilson ~ My Favorite Part Of You 317,425

Tyrese ~ Shame 5,707,391

Kem ~ Nobody 999,454

Johnny Gill ~ Behind Closed Doors 1,453,878

Jazmine Sullivan ~ Forever Don't Last 845,918

Jazmine Sullivan ~ Let It Burn 4,453,469

Babyface ~ We've Got Love 616,549

D'Angelo and The Vanguard ~ Really Love 3,390,088

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Songs with Top 40 or R&B/hip hop airplay:

Beyoncé ~ 7/11 304,799,180

Adele ~ Hello 1,091,994,982

Post Malone ~ White Iverson 99,604,331

Fifth Harmony feat. Kid Ink ~ Worth It 614,424,099

Rihanna ~ Bitch Better Have My Money 70,463,121

Fetty Wap feat. Remy Boyz ~ 679 132,310,633

Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars ~ Uptown Funk 1,335,616,356

Alessia Cara ~ Here 56,668,289

Chris Brown ~ Liquor / Zero (explicit) 18,025,253

Justin Bieber ~ Sorry 734,028,933

Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar ~ Bad Blood 739,663,737

David Guetta feat Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack ~ Hey Mama 595,332,793

Pitbull feat. Chris Brown ~ Fun 109,145,724

3rdeyedude said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

You have a VERY nasty attitude! Do you have anything good to say about anybody?

yikes, please ignore me if you don't mind.......it is bad enough (as others have already stated) that anyone has to actually read any of your comments on this website

You the one that always make nasty statements toward me. I'll gladly ignore you! Just don't EVER comment on anything I say from this year & beyond. You seem very miserable. Maybe you should seek professional help.

MickyDolenz said:

laurarichardson said:

--- Oh the horror of having an RB/Hip Hop act have a record played on an Urban Contempary station😳 You kill me with this nonsense so what if pop stations only want to play the worst RnB artist. G

You sure are negative about nothing. There's no horror. The question is sales and urban contemporary does not generate bigger sales or more popularity, Top 40 airplay does. A Top 40 act also gets more media attention (which is more promotion) than an urban only act. Why do you think people try to crossover? Michael Jackson's Thriller wouldn't have sold anywhere near the amount it did with only the R&B audience. Urban contemporary plays a lot of oldies. They're not primarily focused on new music like the regular R&B stations and Top 40, which is how an act gets a popular hit record, not one that is known to a smaller niche audience. Let's look at the Youtube numbers of music that was released in the last year or so, which is a good indicator of people knowing about a song, since in general albums don't sell the same as in the past as people often download stuff for free.

.

Songs primarily on urban contemporary:

Jahiem ~ Back In My Arms 308,808

Vivian Green ~ Get Right Back To My Baby 1,075,373

Jodeci ~ Every Moment 3,816,804

Avery Sunshine ~ Call My Name 867,170

Jill Scott ~ Fools Gold 1,523,620

Charlie Wilson ~ My Favorite Part Of You 317,425

Tyrese ~ Shame 5,707,391

Kem ~ Nobody 999,454

Johnny Gill ~ Behind Closed Doors 1,453,878

Jazmine Sullivan ~ Forever Don't Last 845,918

Jazmine Sullivan ~ Let It Burn 4,453,469

Babyface ~ We've Got Love 616,549

D'Angelo and The Vanguard ~ Really Love 3,390,088

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Songs with Top 40 or R&B/hip hop airplay:

Beyoncé ~ 7/11 304,799,180

Adele ~ Hello 1,091,994,982

Post Malone ~ White Iverson 99,604,331

Fifth Harmony feat. Kid Ink ~ Worth It 614,424,099

Rihanna ~ Bitch Better Have My Money 70,463,121

Fetty Wap feat. Remy Boyz ~ 679 132,310,633

Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars ~ Uptown Funk 1,335,616,356

Alessia Cara ~ Here 56,668,289

Chris Brown ~ Liquor / Zero (explicit) 18,025,253

Justin Bieber ~ Sorry 734,028,933

Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar ~ Bad Blood 739,663,737

David Guetta feat Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack ~ Hey Mama 595,332,793

Pitbull feat. Chris Brown ~ Fun 109,145,724

What the hell is a White Iverson?

I'm scared to hear it.