Video from ITN about Sugababes rumours

Sugababes dropped by US label

Message from Sugababes re Roc Nation

Message from Sugababes
26th March 2010

“We just wanted to let our fans know that we had a great time working with Roc Nation to record the album Sweet 7 and massive thanks to those of you who have already bought it.


However, contrary to some tabloid mis-reporting, we have never been “signed” to Roc Nation for a scheduled album release in America.

We continue to be signed to Universal Island and are looking forward to some big performance plans across the Summer and also bringing you some new music very soon.”


Lotsa love Heidi, Amelle & Jade xxx

Suganews gets the real story about Roc-Nation

From @suganews on Twitter http://www.suganews.blogspot.com/

You know how everybody is saying the girls were removed from the Roc Nation site? Were they there in the first place?


I've sent an email to Mark Hargreaves, the girls' manager, and asked about their deal with Roc Nation.

Hopefully he'll get back to me!


I'm sure the Roc Nation rumours are fake, but it's good to set the record straight!

Lets face it - it would be ridiculous for Roc Nation to drop the babes. The album has been out for ONE week on weak promotion


Hello everyone :) The babes' manager has got back to me about the Roc Nation deal!


He says that the girls were never actually 'signed' to Roc Nation, therefore they could not have been 'dropped' as it were.

Roc Nation were working with the band to co-A&R 'Sweet 7'. The only place they are SIGNED to is Universal.

ThatGrapeJuice Sugababe article and my comment

Have The Sugababes Been Dropped By Jay-Z’s Roc Nation?


Things appear to be going from bad to worse for the Sugababes. Following the dismal debut of their ‘Sweet 7′ LP, midweek figures today revealed that the album is set to crash out of #40 in its second week on the Official UK Album Chart. That doesn’t appear to be the worse of their woes though, as there is now increasing talk that the ladies were quietly dropped by production label Roc Nation last month.

Some may remember that the group signed the lucrative deal in early 2009 with the company shortly before the recording process of ‘Sweet 7′ commenced. Indeed, it was that very production deal which enabled the group, then-fronted by Keisha Buchanan, to work with US-based hitmakers such as Ne-Yo and RedOne for the proeject.

It now seems the drama and awful performance of the project on a whole left a sour taste in the mouth of Roc Nation, who are now reportedly referring to the group as ‘former clients’. The group are also no longer featured on the company’s site. Miaw!


JadeEwenFan(Ruff)
March 23, 2010 at 12:18 pm
This is crazy news if true , The Sugababes need a chance to break the US. After all the money spent on promotion , its mad to drop them straight away. If the album hasn’t done well its due to mismanagement of the leaked album and constantly putting the release date back. Remember all the tracks were already written and recorded by Keisha , and had to be rerecorded by Jade. So the albums style and content hadn’t changed , just one artist. In the US this would be of no concern as they are not widely known there. I think the Album is Fantastic and think its the best ever !